This post was supposed to be Part 2 of Proposal Development for Grants. I’m moving that post to February 7th, however, so I may share a couple of personal insights on year-end giving campaign. The holiday – and year-end giving – season is over. We’ve all packed away our lights and decorations, year-end donor lists, …

Our organization continues to downsize. We are getting a lot of “flack” from our managers saying there are not enough qualified employees to do the work in their department and everyone is overwhelmed and grumbling. Are they right or are they lobbying to prevent additional layoffs? Here are some examples of why they may, indeed …

Part of a Technical Writers job is to create test plans and to communicate it to the Quality Assurance Team. The Technical Writer will be responsible for the standard test plan (see previous posts) for user acceptance testing to be performed, maintenance of an organized list of open issues, verification of resolved issues, and continuous …

Potential disaster headed off by strong crisis communication Ethical reporting has been a hot topic recently, and this quote, from a PRDaily article by Gil Rudawsky, describes a perfect case study for media organizations to preserve a paper’s reputation and come to the unfortunate realization that one of their writers or reporters has been less …

Users have reported that the performance of the Salesforce platform magically improves when you use it with Firefox.

Crystal Davis read my blog posts last year and emailed me inquiring about other resources related to Spirituality at work. She’s doing her dissertation on Servant Leadership. I’ve enjoyed exchanging ideas with her over the past year. I invited Crystal to share some of her dissertation topic for our blog posts this month. Here is …

Definition – Policies and Procedures involve ensuring control over processes, giving directions, setting standards and following them. In other words, maintaining compliance or preserving requirements. The Policies are a set of rules or guidelines that are decided upon by higher-ups. The Procedures are the steps or processes involved in completing a task. Policies and Procedures: …

It’s common, especially for new or small nonprofits, to combine the responsibilities for fundraising and marketing into the same Board committee — after all, both functions include “getting the word out.” That’s what they have in common. But they have much more that is not in common. Part of a Fundraising Committee’s job is to …

How many of you in college or graduate school had a course, or even a workshop, on managing your career? I bet not many because too many young professionals and emerging leaders come to me for coaching with all kinds of career and leadership concerns. Career Intelligence #1 gave 20 real world practical ideas about …

In this season of peace, love, family, and a little madness, I have a list of holiday wishes for you. May all your projects close on time and on budget.