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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
Internal Crisis Communications: The Inside Track
When a crisis threatens a nonprofit mission, top leaders instinctively focus on what to say to the rapidly encroaching outside world. A community-serving nonprofit may attract attention from far and wide when a disaster, scandal or tragedy strikes. Yet one...
Topics: Crisis Management, Crisis Communications, HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 30, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Effective Communication & Annual Reviews
Communication let me down And I’m left here Communication let me down And I’m left here, I’m left here again! “Communication,” Spandau Ballet Last week’s Risk eNews, “Super Size It: Don’t Skimp on Supporting Your New Hire,” seemed to strike a...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 30, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Lessons on Learning
This month I’ve been reading Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing, by Jamie Holmes. One of the memorable reminders in the book is about the importance of learning, something my team has been focused on recently as we prepare to unveil...
Topics: General
December 30, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Valiant Volunteerism
Community service is a way of life for some folks, and those folks help nonprofit missions move forward each day. My own experiences volunteering at a health clinic, a community event planning board, and an animal shelter were in some...
Topics: Volunteer Risk Management
December 30, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Say What? How Unconscious Bias Affects Our Perceptions
You probably regularly encounter situations where you are convinced that you know exactly what is going on, only to find out that things are the exact opposite of what you thought. When it comes to how we view our environment...
Topics: General
December 30, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Networking Know-How
Nonprofit leaders often wear multiple hats and many of us begin our workday with an impossible to-do list and a packed schedule. Once you have a clear schedule and routine, there may be little time left for workplace activities that...
Topics: General
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
HEATWAVE: Heat Dome Survival Tips
“Has high blood pressure got a hold on me, or is this the way love’s supposed to be? It’s like a heat wave burning in my heart…” – (Love Is Like a) Heat Wave, Martha & the Vandellas Since the Heat...
Topics: Facility, Program and Transportation Safety, HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 29, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Termination Trepidation: Disciplining & Terminating Volunteers
Have you ever stayed in a failing relationship even when you knew it wasn’t working out? Or worse–even when you knew it was bad for you? Pulling the plug on bad relationships is a critical skill in both the personal...
Topics: Volunteer Risk Management