Categories: Organizational Culture
May 23, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Sick of Power Plays? Manage Workplace Power Plays & Revenge Risk
“Every time we experience power… we find ourselves at… a fork in the road… we can act in ways that lead us to enjoy enduring power… or we can be seduced by the self-indulgent possibilities that power occasions. Which path...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices, Organizational Culture
March 1, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Selfless Leadership: When to Leave Fingerprints
If you’re a fan of crime dramas, you’re well aware that recovering fingerprints—the impressions left by the friction ridges (raised portion of the epidermis) of a human finger—is often an important part of a crime scene investigation. And when the...
Topics: Organizational Culture
February 14, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Happy Knot: Managing Workplace Culture Risk
This week I’ve been reading The Economist’s potpourri of prognostications: “The World in 2018.” In his introduction to the publication, editor Daniel Franklin writes that, “It promises to be a nerve-jangling year.” Check! In my recent risk adventures, it seems like many...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices, Organizational Culture
April 25, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Motivate Me: Workplace Motivation for Nonprofit Teams
Have you ever spent an entire day searching for motivation to complete a few simple tasks? Whether your to-do list includes a few loads of laundry, the resorting of your sock drawer, or a report your board has requested repeatedly,...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices, Organizational Culture
February 8, 2017
Resource Type: Infographics
5 Riveting Reads for Risk Champions
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Topics: Organizational Culture
December 30, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Keeping Your “Promises, Promises”
“You made me promises, promises, knowing I’d believe. Promises, promises, you knew you’d never keep.” – Promises, Promises by Naked Eyes Several years ago I heard a wonderfully simple definition of accountability: ‘doing what you said you were going to do.’ I...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices, Organizational Culture
December 30, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Can’t Buy Me Joy (at Work) – Build Trust for Engagement
Across the nonprofit sector, work teams are gathering for holiday-themed celebrations and modest gift-exchanges, wrapping year-end fundraising appeals and saying a fond farewell to departing board members. And in many workplaces, nonprofit executives, managers and supervisors are taking extra time...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices, Organizational Culture
December 29, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
A Spoonful of Skepticism Helps the Medicine Go Down
Have you ever attended a board meeting where one of the members seemed to have everything figured out? Or have you ever worked (or lived with!) a 'know-it-all?" One of my favorite expressions relevant to the world of nonprofit governance...
Topics: Organizational Culture
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
History’s Mysteries… Unearth to Understand
Although no new episodes are being produced, re-runs of the long-running program “History’s Mysteries” appear from time to time on the History Channel. The program capably debunks the idea that history is boring and offers compelling evidence of the expression “truth...
Topics: General, Organizational Culture
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Culture Shock: Embracing Risk Management is Necessary, But Never Easy
This article was inspired by the writings of Diana Del Bel Belluz, M.A.Sc., P.Eng., President of Risk Wise Inc., a Toronto-based risk management consulting firm. To read Diana’s inspirational eZine, visit www.riskwise.net. “We can rebuild him. We have the technology.” Some...
Topics: Organizational Culture