By Alexis De Sela As your organization’s leader, it’s incumbent on you to select the most qualified staff with the right fit based on your organization’s needs and culture to build your nonprofit “dream team.” Consider these steps as you undertake your next search. What do employees value? In any successful workplace, the positive interaction between employees and their leader is essential. We’ve learned that in their relationship with supervisors, most employees value: Trust Positive
By Alexis De Sela Your Development Director just handed you her resignation. It takes you completely off-guard. You thought this was “the one” who would stay because she was 14 months into her tenure. You had no idea she was looking at other opportunities or that she was unhappy in any way, and this will be the third Director of Development to leave in the past five years. This revolving door potentially costs the organization
By Karen Kegg If you are like many of us, you did not set your sights on working for a nonprofit organization when thinking about a career. Many of us learned about nonprofits by volunteering for an organization dear to our hearts, while others became interested in using their skill sets to make a difference in the world. Today, however, there are many people with a strong desire to make a move from their for-profit
