3 Tips for Growing Leaders at Your Organization in 2020
The leader’s journey comes with struggles for everyone, and especially so during times of instability like now. With COVID-19 encouraging or requiring all nonessential workers to stay home, and the virus adversely affecting the global economy, you’ve likely had to...
Developing A Well-Rounded Compensation Plan: A Modern Guide
For HR professionals and leaders in any field, developing a well-rounded compensation package is a top priority. Your compensation strategy heavily affects employee retention and engagement rates and should be created to support your business as it grows. However, it...
[Guest Post] Planning When Everything Goes Haywire
Susan Detwiler is the President of The Detwiler Group and an expert at helping organizational leaders craft actionable strategic plans in line with their vision, mission and values. In this post, she shares what she's learned about helping organizations during seasons...
2020 E-Learning Trends for Growing Leaders
The COVID-19 pandemic has created new challenges for leadership development at nonprofits and small businesses alike. Now, with so many people unable to meet in person, any lessons about leading have to be conducted from an appropriate distance. This is where...
Learning Management Strategies for Leadership Associations
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented unique challenges for leaders in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors alike. Whether they’re struggling to lead while social distancing or finding creative ways to pivot funding, organization leaders are under an elevated amount of...
Leading teams in pandemics and crises
In Tuesday's Nonprofit Storytelling Conference conversation with Denise Jacobs, a question came up from a middle manager in this pandemic and social unrest. The middle manager is trying to be human with her team. Giving them space to process and still get their work...
Is it insensitive to follow up? #followupfriday
What a week. As I sat to write my weekly Follow Up Friday reminder to subscribers, my Twitter feed is full of reports from Minneapolis and my podcasts with updates from Louisville. My inbox was full of fear filled emails about how to lead with all the uncertainty. And...
Marc talks dealing with stress on KFGO’s The Drive
If you are in Fargo area yesterday, you might have heard our CEO Marc A. Pitman on KFGO's The Drive. He got to talk with host Dan Michaels about why everyone else is getting on our nerves. Using Karen Horney's simplified model of three instinctual stances, Marc shared...
Feelings are important in leading
We're leading in an amazing challenging time. (I almost said "unprecedented" but I know I'm not the only person getting tired of that word!) In today's Post Reports, contained a helpful reminder for leaders. In talking about the pandemics impact on personal finances,...
