Are you encountering unexpected pushback during your change initiative? You launched the change with great expectations and high hopes for success. You were responding to a shared pain with a promise to improve things. It felt like everyone with whom you spoke supported the need for change. So why this resistance? And why is some […]
Will a Mackenzie Scott gift to your nonprofit make you MORE or LESS attractive to other donors? Ever since Mackenzie Scott began making unexpected Transformational Gifts to nonprofits in 2019/2020 (a total of about $16 billion so far), some have had a concern that these gifts will somehow ‘chase away’ other donors. As they will
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Oof – that was unexpected! Who knew there was going to be so much resistance to this organizational change? Have you ever been in this situation? You recently launched a change initiative with great fanfare! You’ve been planning this change for a while, but the response is less enthusiastic than you were expecting. In fact,
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Currently standing at about 25% in the US, the temporary workforce is comprised not only of those from temp agencies, but also specialists and consultants with niche expertise. However, projections indicate a staggering growth of this workforce to 46% by 2030. This shift isn’t a statistical anomaly; it marks a fundamental recalibration of the employment
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Do you want your organization to grow and improve? What sort of growth are you looking for? After all, growth can be quantitative, like increased revenue, or qualitative, like improved efficiency and productivity. However, growth won’t just happen on its own. The right conditions need to be in place before it will happen. Many necessary
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You’re excited about the future! You’ve got an ambitious strategy to grow and scale a proven program so that you can reach many more people! But are you really ready for growth? The unfortunate reality is that too many organizations find themselves overwhelmed by the practical challenges of managing growth. Do you remember what it
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You bring the change team together for one of your regular meetings. The change initiative has been underway for six months. You’ve been following the “rolling six month plan” that you developed together. You have just completed a round of collecting progress data. And things are… just a bit off course. Things are clearly moving along,
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Do you remember how you felt in April 2020? That was the point when we all began to realize that this COIVD-19 pandemic might be around for longer than we had anticipated. And all the plans we had for the year were in jeopardy! Remember that feeling? We realized that we could not simply adapt
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Kolmanskop is an abandoned town on the edge of the Namib Desert in southern Africa. Once it was one of the wealthiest, most lively places in that country. Today, it is considered a ‘ghost town’ and the desert has reclaimed for itself the once-majestic houses that made up the town. The original inhabitants of
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We know that not everything in your plan will go according to plan. You will need to be nimble and adaptive, responding to what is actually taking place, rather than what you hoped would be taking place! When you are Cultivating Change, I call this move on the part of leaders Iterate: Paying attention to
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