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November 25, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Workplace Harassment: An Unacceptable Risk
Last week I attended a leadership conference hosted by an organization near to my heart, Camp Fire. Camp Fire’s mission is to provide opportunities for young people to “find their spark, lift their voices, and discover who they are.” During...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
November 22, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Inquiring Minds Want to Know
This week I’ve been reading The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters, by Tom Nichols. In this thought-provoking and provocative book, Nichols mourns how expertise has been devalued and dismissed, replaced with dangerous “intellectual egalitarianism.”...
Topics: General
October 25, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Gibberisk: Risk’s Mangled & Made-up Words
Have you ever exuberantly crooned the chorus of a popular song and later discovered that you had mangled the lyrics? Today’s music fans can use a search engine to quickly verify the lyrics of a favorite tune. But when I...
Topics: General
October 19, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
How to Conduct a Risk Assessment
To say that the term risk assessment has many meanings is an incontrovertible understatement. My Google search of the phrase what is a risk assessment yielded more than 127 million results in an astonishing .88 seconds! From time to time at NRMC we ponder...
Topics: Risk Assessment
October 11, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Gratitude!
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” – William Arthur Ward We’re feeling overwhelmed with gratitude today. We are especially grateful to: the talented risk champions who attended the Risk Summit in Philadelphia; thank you...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
October 11, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Risk Lessons from Soccer’s Sidelines
I spent a big chunk of time recently as a supportive sideline spectator at a soccer tournament with my kids. They play on two different teams, so there were a lot of games and not much downtime. While sidelined, it...
Topics: General
October 11, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
RISK HELP from NRMC
The NRMC team enjoyed a lot of help in planning and executing our recent annual conference, the Risk Summit. Check out photos from the event to find yourself in the crowd or--if you couldn't join us--to see what you missed....
Topics: General
September 27, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
The Illusion of Teams
Teams are often viewed as a possible panacea for complex organizational challenges. However, forming and deploying teams to address perennial problems sometimes creates a mirage; leaders believe they see something that isn’t really there. Effective teams are more often an...
Topics: General
August 23, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
The Risk of Regret: Not Every Mission Really Lives
In Everybody Dies But Not Everybody Lives, rapper and spoken word artist Prince Ea challenges us to be open to risk-taking: “There was a study done, a hospital study on 100 elderly people. Facing death, close to their last breath they...
Topics: General
August 23, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Lessons from Insurance Thought Leaders
Although there are risk professionals throughout the nonprofit sector who know a great deal about the property and casualty coverage they buy for their organizations, some buyers purchase policies first, and ask questions later. Relying on simplified coverage descriptions and...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing