July 15, 2025

Resource Type: Risk eNews

Embrace the Complexity in Your Team

Risk leaders often tell my team they frequently face resistance and resentment when new risk policies, activities, or requirements are announced. Who wouldn’t be excited and energized by another rule to follow, exercise to complete, or hoop to jump through?...

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July 2, 2025

Resource Type: Risk eNews

Navigating Disruptive Change with a Risk-Aware Mindset

Last week I traveled 2,864 miles to temporarily escape from disruptive change. In a couple of months my home will have two new occupants: my sweet mother and her affable dog Ringo. Preparing for my new roommates has been disruptive...

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February 4, 2025

Resource Type: Risk eNews

How to Simplify and Streamline During a Crisis

By Melanie Lockwood Herman  “An infinite-minded leader does not simply want to build a company that can weather change but one that can be transformed by it. They want to build a company that embraces surprises and adapts with them.”...

March 25, 2024

Resource Type: Risk Management Essentials

The Change Management Issue – Spring 2024

Spring 2024 Download PDF What's Inside What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know about Change A Step-by-Step Guide to Change Management Build a Communications Plan to Support Change

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March 25, 2024

Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews

A Step-by-Step Guide to Change Management

Many organizational change efforts will fail—up to 70 percent of them, depending on which experts you ask.  What makes the difference? What factors make a change take hold, and what can make a change fall flat?  I’ve led my share...

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March 25, 2024

Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews

Build a Communications Plan to Support Change

Across NRMC’s client portfolio, employees tell us they’re overwhelmed by time-sensitive requests from all parts of their organizations, on many different platforms. This sense of overwhelm holds true for people who work at three-person nonprofits and those with thousands of...

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March 25, 2024

Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews

What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know about Change

Years ago, when I was a reporter for a business journal, the editing team met behind closed doors each week to select stories for Page 1.   Then our editor decided to make a change.   She told us the team would...

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January 24, 2024

Resource Type: Webinars

Navigating Change Management Risk

Change fatigue presents major risks to the mission of every nonprofit as the pace of change continues to increase. But a few best practices can help nonprofit teams navigate change and continue to improve their service to the community. HANDOUT:...

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January 24, 2024

Resource Type: Risk eNews

Ready for Change: Risk Imperatives for 2024

Are you and your team reeling from a constant barrage of pivots, reinventions, and reimaginations? Hoping change will slow down in 2024? Not a chance. The pace of change for nonprofits and the world around us won’t even stay the...

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May 11, 2022

Resource Type: Risk eNews

Pace of Change Worn You Out? You’re Not Alone

I led dozens of change management initiatives in my years running a newsroom. But the toughest professional change I ever faced came when I unexpectedly got a new boss. That’s a common reaction, according to an article from consultancy Gartner. Changes...

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