Categories: General
January 31, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Managing Risk in a World of Change: Turn and Face the Strange
Three of the questions we often ask during NRMC Risk Assessments or ERM Engagements are: What is the most significant, recent change in your organization? What disruptive changes are going on now? If we were to return a year from...
Topics: General
January 18, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Risk Management Leaders Must be Unstoppably Optimistic
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” – Colin Powell In his article, “How to Lead in 2018,” Fast Company editor Robert Safian beckons his readers to embrace optimistic leadership by staring “unblinkingly at this time of chaos and dig into...
Topics: General
January 2, 2018
Resource Type: Risk Management Essentials
The Ethics Issue
Click here to view a turn-the-page version of The Ethics Issue. Download PDF What's Inside COI: Candor Or Inhibition? Managing Conflicts Of Interest An Eye for Ethics: Quelling Confusion about Ethical Quandaries
Topics: General
January 2, 2018
Resource Type: Articles
An Eye for Ethics: Quelling Confusion about Ethical Quandaries
Most nonprofit leaders would enthusiastically agree that ethical conduct and core values are key to the success of their community-serving missions. Yet among your co-workers and peers, how acute is awareness of ethical dilemmas in every-day decisions? Do colleagues have...
Topics: General
December 31, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Don’t Fret Failure
“Most people are afraid of failure. They have been taught to be afraid of it.” – Bruce Mau When you reflect on the past year, if you recall triumphs as well as failures, you’re not alone. Everyone miscalculates and misfires...
Topics: General
December 14, 2017
Resource Type: Infographics
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December 12, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Risk Leadership Resources for Nonprofit Risk Champions
November 30, 2017 Explore this RISK eNewsletter filled with risk leadership resources [caption id="attachment_17409" align="alignnone" width="554"] Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series#/media/File:Leonard_Nimoy_William_Shatner_Star_Trek_1968.JPG[/caption] What Star Trek Taught Me about Risk Leadership There's not exactly a Starfleet Academy for nonprofit risk professionals, like in the...
Topics: General
December 7, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Distraction & Decision Fatigue are Brain Drain for Risk Champions
“The actual information that reaches the brain via our senses is not the rich and detailed stream of sights, sounds and sensations that we so often take for granted; in truth, the raw data our senses provide is more like...
Topics: General
December 6, 2017
Resource Type: Webinars
If I Only Had a Brain: Neuroscience and Risk Management
Cajoling colleagues into supporting risk management initiatives isn’t easy. Did you know that: the “laggy, lazy and distracted” brains of your staff and volunteers are hard-wired with roadblocks to risk-aware thinking and decision-making? various thinking patterns—including both intuitive shortcuts and...
Topics: General
December 5, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
How Neuroscience and Risk Management Link to Fear and Memory
“To our brains, daily life is like tightrope-walking over a vast pit full of furious honey badgers and broken glass; one wrong move and you’ll end up as a gruesome mess in temporary but exquisite pain.” – Dean Burnett, Idiot Brain:...
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