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January 31, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Managing Risk in a World of Change: Turn and Face the Strange
Three of the questions we often ask during NRMC Risk Assessments or ERM Engagements are: What is the most significant, recent change in your organization? What disruptive changes are going on now? If we were to return a year from...
Topics: General
January 25, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Employment Practices Risk Resources
Explore this RISK eNewsletter filled with tips and resources for managing employment practices risk. CEO and Staff Succession Planning Avoid transition trauma by reading our practical articles on succession planning: Avoid Transition Trauma with a CEO Succession Plan Staff Succession...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
January 18, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Risk Management Leaders Must be Unstoppably Optimistic
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” – Colin Powell In his article, “How to Lead in 2018,” Fast Company editor Robert Safian beckons his readers to embrace optimistic leadership by staring “unblinkingly at this time of chaos and dig into...
Topics: General
December 31, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Don’t Fret Failure
“Most people are afraid of failure. They have been taught to be afraid of it.” – Bruce Mau When you reflect on the past year, if you recall triumphs as well as failures, you’re not alone. Everyone miscalculates and misfires...
Topics: General
December 19, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Risk Management Maturity: Where Do You Stand?
Hosting an Office Holiday Party? Listen to Episode #3 of The Risk Jockeys Podcast: Ho Ho Hold On There! Managing Office Party Risks ~8.5 minutes | Recorded 12.16.17 [audio m4a="https://nonprofitrisk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Ho-Ho-Hold-on-There-Managing-Office-Party-Risks-Episode-3.m4a"][/audio] Looking back on the NRMC team’s...
Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
December 12, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Valiant Volunteerism: Managing Volunteer Risk & Reward
Enjoy this RISK eNewsletter filled with volunteer risk management resources! The Frankenstein Effect: Misclassifying Your Volunteers The NRMC team fields lots of questions about worker classification. If you misclassify a worker, you increase the likelihood of various downside risks, including...
Topics: Volunteer Risk Management
December 12, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Salient Safety Resources
December 1, 2017 Explore this RISK eNewsletter focused on workplace safety. Whiteboard Wisdom Videos on Workplace Safety The NRMC team recently collaborated with Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.'s Nonprofit Practice to develop a series of Whiteboard Wisdom videos on various...
December 12, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Risk Leadership Resources for Nonprofit Risk Champions
November 30, 2017 Explore this RISK eNewsletter filled with risk leadership resources [caption id="attachment_17409" align="alignnone" width="554"] Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series#/media/File:Leonard_Nimoy_William_Shatner_Star_Trek_1968.JPG[/caption] What Star Trek Taught Me about Risk Leadership There's not exactly a Starfleet Academy for nonprofit risk professionals, like in the...
Topics: General
December 7, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Distraction & Decision Fatigue are Brain Drain for Risk Champions
“The actual information that reaches the brain via our senses is not the rich and detailed stream of sights, sounds and sensations that we so often take for granted; in truth, the raw data our senses provide is more like...
Topics: General
December 5, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
How Neuroscience and Risk Management Link to Fear and Memory
“To our brains, daily life is like tightrope-walking over a vast pit full of furious honey badgers and broken glass; one wrong move and you’ll end up as a gruesome mess in temporary but exquisite pain.” – Dean Burnett, Idiot Brain:...
Topics: General