Becoming an effective manager is integral to your ability to be a great leader and to drive scope and impact in your work. Learn how to set new staff and volunteers up to succeed, do what you can to build their professional capacities and drive retention, and empirically evaluate their performance.

Learn practical ways to maintain a positive workplace culture even when everyone is socially distanced and working remotely.

Because founders—regardless of the sector—are remarkably good at many things, and they should steer clear of others. The key to a founder’s long-term success is self-awareness and self-mastery.

Checklist: People

In an effort to get you as a nonprofit leaders to face “worst case scenarios,” here’s a template you can use to think through challenges that could befall your organization.

Template: People, Narrative

C.H. Dyer, Executive Director of Bright Hope®, draws from his 25 years of experience growing his organization from $150,000 to $5.8 million to teach us lessons we can all use to grow and scale our nonprofits.

Course: People

The boat never rocks as much as when someone leaves and someone new arrives.

Course: People

A troublesome board member diminishes the effectiveness of the board. One bad apple can lead the good apples to go find another basket.

Template: People

Drama… Comedy… Tragedy… Joan and Laura performed some enlightening, fun, and poignant “E.D. / Board Chair Improv” you won’t want to miss.

Role Play: People

When it comes to words like “governance” and “oversight,” it can be hard to know when you are getting it right.

Template: People

There is a lot of evidence to suggest that the first 90 days sets the overall tone for the tenure of a new E.D.

Quick Win: People