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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Choosing Preparation Over Panic
The subjects of employee benefits and employee “rights,” have been front and center in the news as of late. Another front-page / home-page topic on the domestic news front is the growing federal deficit. School children (and taxpayers!) across the...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
All Dressed Up
Invitations to office parties, family get-togethers and school events seem to fill mail boxes and e-mail inboxes this time of year. Although a growing number of nonprofits are experimenting with events for which one is expected to purchase a ticket...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Adopt a Total Ban on Personal Electronic Device Use While Driving
January 26, 2016 Since we began offering free RISK HELP to our Affiliate Members in 2012, we have answered a wide array of risk questions--some highly unusual. Last week we received this quirky question from two incredibly different member organizations:...
Topics: Facility, Program and Transportation Safety, HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Adapt to Thrive
A new article on the “teenage brain” caught my attention last week while I was killing time in an airport bookstore. The feature article in this month’s National Geographic Magazine explores new research on the evolving brains of our teenage...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Can’t Touch This: How to Bring Your Strategic Plan Back to Life
February 25, 2015 In an article titled “Why Strategy Execution Fails—and What to Do About It,” in the March 2015 edition of the Harvard Business Review, authors Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes and Charles Sull explore what happens when mission-advancing strategies...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Can You Hear Me Now?!
Last week I had an extraordinary opportunity to train a team of nonprofit leaders on workplace conflict resolution. The members of the team work for an international, multi-cultural nonprofit. Working together over several days we explored the process of re-framing...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Calling All Factions
I’m fascinated by research on the human brain, an organ neuroscientist David Eagleman refers to as “three pounds of the most complex material we’ve discovered in the universe.” By luck I happened to catch Tuesday’s edition of the NPR Program...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Buyer’s Remorse
In a thought-provoking “CEO to CEO” feature article in the September/October 2010 edition of Associations Now magazine, four CEOs were asked: “If you could take back one business decision you’ve made in the last five years, what would it be?”...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Busting Myths
During a typical holiday visit with my family the conversation often turns to news of the latest medical, scientific or commercial “myth.” During this year’s July 4th celebration the conversation quickly turned to the recent study on the positive health...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Break Free: The Big Payoff from Kicking the Habit
April 1, 2015 Leaders are guided and inspired by the missions and values of the organizations they serve when they are called on to balance risk and reward in programming. And when it comes to the toughest choices, most leaders...
Topics: General