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April 13, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
How to Be Productively Positive, Not Pollyanna
“Being human means making space for the positive, the negative, and everything in between.” – Whitney Goodman I’ve recently finished two books that inspired me to question my impulsive inclination to look for silver linings behind every cloud. Both books...
Topics: Organizational Culture
April 6, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Music to My Ears: Learning is Fundamental
“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.” -B.B. King. During a prior Risk Summit session titled “Deconstructing Delicious Dishes: An Insurance User’s Guide,” Scott R. Konrad, SVP and Not-for-Profit Practice Leaders at HUB International...
Topics: General
March 25, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Cultivate Curiosity to Fuel Risk-Aware Thinking
“The world’s biggest untapped source of energy isn’t in the wind, water, or sun. It’s inside established organizations. These organizations. . .are populated with people who, like all people, entered the world naturally curious and creative. That curiosity and creativity...
Topics: Organizational Culture
March 23, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Innovation and Risk Management: Perfect Partners or Strange Bedfellows?
My sense of self is that I’m hard-wired to be logical and stubborn. If I could re-wire my brain, I’d pick new wires associated with creativity and flexibility. I studied oil painting a few years ago and produced a couple...
Topics: Organizational Culture
March 2, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Test your knowledge of some of the biggest recent risks
Sometimes when you need to look forward, it helps to look back. As you navigate risks that could bring your nonprofit challenges and opportunities this year, we offer a chance to test your knowledge about some of the biggest risk...
Topics: General
February 23, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Learn How to Learn This Week (and Beyond)
At NRMC, a typical week involves client presentations, custom webinars, and team huddles to discuss upcoming deadlines and deliverables. However, amid the rush of meetings and presentations, everyone on the NRMC team carves out time and looks or natural learning...
Topics: General
February 16, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Call It What It Is: Organizational Trauma Isn’t Burnout
One night a client attacks another client at the nonprofit where you work. You don’t hear about it for days—and then only through office gossip. Your nonprofit’s leaders brush off frontline employees’ demands for paid leave. A constant low boil...
Topics: Organizational Culture
January 26, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
If Board Meetings Don’t Change You, You’re Doing It Wrong
Last week I found myself engrossed in my first read of a new year: The Power of Giving Away Power. Author Matthew Barzun offers a compelling, fresh look at a concept I’ve come to understand as servant leadership: recognizing that being...
Topics: Governance
January 12, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Relinquish Relics
Last week I was reminded of a relic from the ‘before times’ when a colleague asked me about ordering business cards for our newest team member. The arrival of these tiny cards—descendants of calling cards used by aristocrats in 17th century Europe—has been a...
Topics: General
January 5, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Keep it Real: Choose Rational Risk Resolutions
It’s that wonderful time of year when nonprofit leaders (and everyone else!) get busy making lists of the things we aspire to do, resolve to do, and sometimes actually accomplish. The act of sharing goals and resolutions with a friend...
Topics: General