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April 11, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
For the Love of Learning
Learning Lessons from NRMC’s Executive Director NRMC’s Melanie Lockwood Herman was recently inspired to see a consulting client devote a full day for all-staff training on topics ranging from diversity and inclusion to managing up. Melanie is an advocate for lifelong learning...
Topics: General
April 4, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Risk Assessment Perspectives: Re-Lens with Three Approaches
For some, an updated prescription from an optometrist is the perfect reason to pick out a new pair of frames. For me, a new prescription led me to purchase vintage frames, which required finding a company offering a “re-lens” service....
Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
March 28, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Restructuring Risk Roles
Throughout the sector, more and more nonprofits are formally assigning risk management responsibility to an individual or team focused on risk, usually with risk or related words in their job titles. Many NRMC clients succeed by assigning an existing team to wear...
Topics: General
March 21, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
8 Tips for a Happy Unicorn Meeting
How do you feel about meetings? Me too. A bad meeting is a gigantic waste of time. They are not a box to be checked, but a critical check-in step that propels a project forward. The best meetings happen when...
Topics: General
March 15, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Light the Fire: Tell Young People How They Inspire
Advising nonprofit management and governing teams is a labor of love for the NRMC team. We are constantly inspired by the missions of the nonprofits whose leaders invite us into their worlds to provide risk coaching, create risk assessment frameworks,...
March 7, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Charity Gone Wrong: Unethical & Illegal Conduct
NRMC team members sometimes field calls from concerned nonprofit staff members, volunteers, board members, and even members of the public, who worry that a cherished nonprofit is involved in unethical or illegal conduct. Oftentimes, the inquiring individuals lack the authority...
Topics: General
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 21, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Best of Risk Management Essentials
Explore this RISK eNewsletter filled with some of our most popular issues of Risk Management Essentials (RME), our magazine published three times each year. Visit the RME archive for more issues and articles! Manage Risk with an Eye for Ethics...
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
February 7, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Risk Management Advice: Smarts from the Streets
This week’s RISK eNEWS features street smart words of wisdom from risk management leaders who serve in nonprofits, or who serve clients across the nonprofit sector. Find inspiration in this sage risk management advice from your peers, who take bold...
Topics: General