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...

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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...

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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...

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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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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February 28, 2024

Resource Type: Risk eNews

Choose Better Words to Fight Resistance to Risk

When I was young, my parents encouraged us to make wise language choices. Cursing was verboten in our household and a stern look followed any use of crass terms, even common ones. Recently I’ve spoken to several risk leaders who...

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