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UTILIZING FACILITATIVE LEADERSHIP TO IMPROVE MEETINGS
One of the greatest challenges facing nonprofit leadership is getting volunteers to do the work that the Board needs to get done.

Here is a major difference with the for-profit, with paid staff. In the nonprofit much of the work, especially Board work, gets done by people voluntarily. This supplements the [...]

Executives too often feel they must drown their nonprofit Board members with information when they present their monthly financial reports.  They feel that this is a way to keep from showing the Board that they are on top of the finances. What they do is completely confuse most Board members who really aren’t interested in [...]

In this time of recession, it is understandable that nonprofit Board of Directors and staffs are worried. They are seeing government contracts being reduced or cancelled. Their requests for foundation grants are being denied. Special events, which they counted on to bring in the bulk of charitable income, are falling dramatically below expectations. Some are [...]

Why isn’t it working? Agencies seek out top business leaders to put on their Board, hoping that they will bring their professional acumen to the Board room-often only to be disappointed.  Did these leaders check their business experience at the door?  Why do they often make such poor business decisions in guiding the agency’s future?
After [...]