by Concord Leadership Group Contributor | Aug 22, 2025 | Guest Post, Organizational Leadership, Staff Relations, Strategic Plan
When patients visit your medical practice, they see your front-office staff members and their physicians. What they don’t see is all the work that goes on behind the scenes that ensures your practice continues to run smoothly and in compliance with local and federal...
by Concord Leadership Group Contributor | Jun 30, 2025 | Guest Post, Organizational Leadership, Staff Relations, Strategic Plan
In many industries across both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, remote and hybrid work environments are the new normal. However, keeping employees engaged when they aren’t coming into the office every day has remained a consistent challenge for all types of...
by Concord Leadership Group Contributor | Jun 23, 2025 | Guest Post, Organizational Leadership, Staff Relations, Strategic Plan
Talent acquisition has always been a key driver of organizational success, but it has become increasingly complex in recent years. To keep up, companies must adapt how they attract and hire talent. After all, employees today seek more than just a paycheck—they want...
by Concord Leadership Group Contributor | Jun 16, 2025 | Guest Post, Organizational Leadership, Strategic Plan
Many small businesses struggle to navigate the peaks and valleys in demand for their products and services throughout the year. Allocating staff during peak times can feel chaotic and overwhelming, while stretching your cash reserves during lulls in business requires...
by Concord Leadership Group Contributor | Apr 3, 2025 | Guest Post, Organizational Leadership, Strategic Plan
Small businesses have to work harder out of the gate to earn customers’ trust. After all, with limited sales and brand presence, many consumers may be understandably wary of your business. To mitigate their caution and encourage them to visit your business frequently,...
by Marc A. Pitman | Jul 1, 2020 | CEO/Executive Directors, Guest Post, Strategic Plan
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...
by Marc A. Pitman | Feb 26, 2020 | Board Members, CEO/Executive Directors, Organizational Leadership, Strategic Plan
This post is from Charles Weathers, the founder of The Weathers Group, a management consulting firm specializing in organization behavior and development. Charles has a wonderful gift to explain complex processes in terms you easily understand! You can learn more...
by Marc A. Pitman | Apr 18, 2017 | Board Members, CEO/Executive Directors, Strategic Plan, Vision
It seems that those of us attracted to nonprofit leadership are very good at “doing.” We see a need right in front of us and fill it. And fill it again. In fact, we get so good at seeing the need in front of us, that we forget to lift up our head. A view...
by CLG Admin | Jun 30, 2016 | CEO/Executive Directors, Strategic Plan, Video
Does it ever feel like your board or staff walks into a meeting full of purpose and passion but reading from different sheets of music? In this video, Marc shares insights into strategic planning from watching his children’s school orchestra conductor. What do...
by Marc A. Pitman | Apr 29, 2016 | CEO/Executive Directors, Strategic Plan
When we set out to study leadership in the nonprofit sector, we didn’t go into the study with preconceived notions of what the results might be. We actually were hoping that the data would show leadership in nonprofits is stronger than the anecdotes we keep...