Engaging your nonprofit board of directors is key to an organization’s success – is your board onboard the boat or do they ride the bus? Is yours an engaged board of directors or is it an on-going challenge to get them to contribute more than simply turning up for board meetings? If it’s the latter, you are not […]
Do you have the courage to lead or does self-imposed fear restrict your willingness to take on a leadership role? One of my heroes, Nelson Mandela said: “Fear and courage are brothers. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
Envisioning a bold future and then mentally ‘walking back’ from the future, imagining what would be required to reach that vision, can literally change the world or your organization’s path forward. In 1961, John F. Kennedy in a speech to the United States Congress challenged the country to put a man on the moon before […]
Which comes first – Vision or Mission? In our view vision (clearly defined strategic direction) should always come first. If you don’t know where you are going (big goal, looking to the future) how do you know what you need to do to get there (mission)?
These are the words one of our board members shared as they were leaving a recent board meeting. Does this sound familiar? Is this how your board members feel? I hope so, but if not, keep reading…