Strategic planning: Is your board focusing on the five external forces?
Feb 13th, 2007 | By: Raylene DecaturStrategic planning often gets a bad rap. And it’s easy to see why. Usually, we have a board retreat or take the staff off site and hold a big meeting. Much is said and brainstorming is vigorous,... Read more
Results require action
Jul 24th, 2007 | By: Raylene DecaturVolumes are written extolling the virtues of creativity in the workplace. We all invest time in brainstorming and daydreaming about how to improve our programs, products and client services. New ways of looking at... Read more
Why more questions and fewer reports can help your board
Feb 26th, 2008 | By: Raylene DecaturBoards must reframe their roles. The requirement today is to be leaders of two seemingly opposite agendas: How do I lead, as a board member, for discipline, consistency and dependable organizational results, while simultaneously challenging ... Read more
Changing nonprofit sector demands solid career plan
Jun 22nd, 2008 | By: Raylene DecaturDramatic change is occurring in the world of work. Are you ready? Rapidly changing demographics and the rising tide of expectations will shape revolutionary changes in job expectations in the coming years. Now is the time to revise or write your career ... Read more
Thriving on reinvention: stimulating conversation about the business model
Mar 1st, 2010 | By: Raylene DecaturRegardless of the timeline for the U.S. economic recovery, emerging trends in competition, technology, demographics and consumer behavior are the major drivers of future opportunities for nonprofit organizations. These trends will shape a ... Read more
Thriving in the new economy: Getting your next job
Sep 1st, 2010 | By: Raylene DecaturIn June of 2008, I wrote an article on career planning and voiced concern that people were not investing enough thought, time and energy in their careers, given a rapidly changing environment. Little did I realize the extent to which dramatic ... Read more
The external environment: What’s going on out there?
Apr 4th, 2011 | By: Raylene DecaturOrganizations are beginning to focus on the future again. During the recent recession it was often hard to justify the time, energy or resources to mount a visioning or planning session. How can we take the time away from pressing client ... Read more
Your nonprofit job search: Don't waste time with the wrong people
Apr 30th, 2012 | By: Raylene DecaturThe world’s most popular job-hunting book turns 40 this year. What Color is Your Parachute has inspired and supported generations of job hunters. One of the terms Richard Nelson Bolles coined in his seminal book is informational interview. An information interview is a meeting a job seeker schedules to ask for career or ... Read more
Improve your organizational performance by making great hires
Oct 8th, 2012 | By: Raylene DecaturThe CausePlanet team invited me to respond to the Page to Practice™ book summary of “Match: A Systematic Sane Process for Hiring the Right Person Every Time” by Dan Ehrling. I would agree with Erling that human capital is the single most important factor in accelerating a nonprofit organization’s mission performance... Read more
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