Categories: General
June 19, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Keep Calm and Carry on Embracing Possibilities
“Possibilities are always more interesting than facts. We shouldn’t frown on fact, but our world is congested with them. But for every fact that becomes a fact, there are seven, eight, maybe five hundred possibilities hanging around in the background...
Topics: General
June 12, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Fortify Your Pillars of Resilience
In his chapter on “Resilient, Net Positive Leadership” featured in the book Certain Uncertainty, Andrew Winston questions the wisdom of an economy that “values efficiency above all.” Winston explains that while obsessive efficiency “certainly keeps costs down… it’s completely unfit for...
Topics: General
June 5, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
The Tension Crushing the Soul of Risk Management
The risk professionals with whom I have the pleasure of working are bright stars in the nonprofit universe. Without exception, the dedicated risk champions we meet—in consulting engagements, at the Risk Summit, and in our Affiliate Member orbit—seek to contribute to...
Topics: General
May 8, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Into the Deep: Your Six-Week Risk Challenge (It’s Not About Carbs)
Collecting data (what keeps you up at night?), sorting data (let’s sort these risks by likelihood and impact scores), and promising protection (here’s a list of all the things we’re doing to mitigate our risks) are famously familiar tasks in...
Topics: General
March 25, 2024
Resource Type: Risk Management Essentials
The Change Management Issue – Spring 2024
Spring 2024 Download PDF What's Inside What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know about Change A Step-by-Step Guide to Change Management Build a Communications Plan to Support Change
Topics: General
March 25, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
A Step-by-Step Guide to Change Management
Many organizational change efforts will fail—up to 70 percent of them, depending on which experts you ask. What makes the difference? What factors make a change take hold, and what can make a change fall flat? I’ve led my share...
Topics: General
March 25, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
Build a Communications Plan to Support Change
Across NRMC’s client portfolio, employees tell us they’re overwhelmed by time-sensitive requests from all parts of their organizations, on many different platforms. This sense of overwhelm holds true for people who work at three-person nonprofits and those with thousands of...
Topics: General
March 25, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know about Change
Years ago, when I was a reporter for a business journal, the editing team met behind closed doors each week to select stories for Page 1. Then our editor decided to make a change. She told us the team would...
Topics: General
March 21, 2024
Resource Type: Webinars
Economic Risk: Fortify Your Mission to Withstand Tough Times
Data shows that most nonprofits feel real pain from economic downturns but can recover. Learn how to prepare for the next economic decline—whenever it comes—and emerge stronger on the other side. HANDOUT: ECONOMIC RISK: Fortify Your Mission to Withstand Tough...
Topics: General
March 6, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Think of It This Way, That Way, or Another Way
One of my favorite sleep apps encourages insomniac users to say the mantra “Don’t Think” over and over while listening to a distracting noise pattern. I’ve learned that green is my favorite distracting “noise” and “don’t think” is a helpful...
Topics: General