We are preparing to enter into a capital campaign for a Christian Camp. We do not have a budget for a feasibility study, but we do have some capable people. What resources or materials can you recommend for us to do a feasibility study ourselves? ======================================== I have two immediate/automatic reactions to that question: 1. …

A $3B scandal, more Toyota recalls, and Swedish Tweets Corporate crises were a major topic on this week’s episode of The Crisis Show. Hosts Jonathan Bernstein, Melissa Agnes, and Rich Klein talked about Glaxo’s $3B fail, resulting from a guilty plea to several federal charges involving unethical practices. They also hit on Toyota’s never ending …

Giving One’s Best in Return for Recognition Recognition: For something so simple why is so hard to compliment people when they do something well or to encourage them as they work to improve their performance? I have heard a variety of reasons, in my training and coaching, why some managers let encouragement and recognition drift. …

The Direct Marketing Association's 2012 Response Rate Report dated June 14, 2012 concludes that direct mail response rates are slipping, but they're still higher than most other media.

Appreciation for the Professional Director of Development For a very long time, I wanted to write something which championed the cause of overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated staff development professionals. But while I was still working as a member of that glorious “clan,” I felt that I was not in the best position to make the …

Templates are extremely useful for saving time and providing consistency. They are short cuts to formatting and completing your document quickly and easily. They are short cuts because you no longer have to think about how the material should be set up or what style to use for particular types of documents. Having templates not …

Fall is full of great things including the beautiful scenery brought by the changing leaves and joys of trick or tricking with the kids while they are still young enough to find magic in a big bag of "free" candy. For those of us in HR and Recruiting, fall brings the season of college career fairs. And just like the stores preparing for their "back to school" revenue, recruiters are preparing to find the best and the brightest. So are the best and brightest preparing for us? Are they getting ready to find their start in a great career? I am sure that many of them are doing just that; and these are the ones recruiters will be thrilled to meet at their local career fair. However, my guess is that there will still be hundreds of them that can check at least some of the things on the following list.

Dual Roles: Board President and Paid Executive (Part 1) (Guest post from Hank Lewis.) An Email Said: My organization has no paid staff, is essentially unfunded at this time, and Board Members receive no compensation of any kind including expense reimbursement. I’m the chairman of the Board and founder of the organization. When I sign …

You know that feeling? The one where your heart feels tight, maybe your head spins a bit, it feels like someone has placed needles between your eyes and clamped a vice to each of your shoulders? When you feel like this, your focus is fractured and everything, even the lint in between the keys on …

I read an article recently where the author said that Success belonged to the secular world and Faith belonged to the spiritual world. –What?? — Really?!?! What do you think? · Is Success only allowed, important, relevant in the secular world? · Is Faith only allowed, important, relevant in the spiritual world (matters of spirit)? …