Tags: Risk Leadership
June 14, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Person of Interest: Soliciting Insights from Staff In-the-Know
“It’s better to be interested than interesting.” – Oprah Winfrey Are you a fan of true crime TV? In a crime drama, “person of interest” refers to an individual who possesses information that is potentially relevant to an investigation. While...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
March 28, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Restructuring Risk Roles
Throughout the sector, more and more nonprofits are formally assigning risk management responsibility to an individual or team focused on risk, usually with risk or related words in their job titles. Many NRMC clients succeed by assigning an existing team to wear...
Topics: General
March 1, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Selfless Leadership: When to Leave Fingerprints
If you’re a fan of crime dramas, you’re well aware that recovering fingerprints—the impressions left by the friction ridges (raised portion of the epidermis) of a human finger—is often an important part of a crime scene investigation. And when the...
Topics: Organizational Culture
February 7, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Risk Management Advice: Smarts from the Streets
This week’s RISK eNEWS features street smart words of wisdom from risk management leaders who serve in nonprofits, or who serve clients across the nonprofit sector. Find inspiration in this sage risk management advice from your peers, who take bold...
Topics: General
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 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 6, 2017
Resource Type: Webinars
If I Only Had a Brain: Neuroscience and Risk Management
Cajoling colleagues into supporting risk management initiatives isn’t easy. Did you know that: the “laggy, lazy and distracted” brains of your staff and volunteers are hard-wired with roadblocks to risk-aware thinking and decision-making? various thinking patterns—including both intuitive shortcuts and...
Topics: General
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
August 4, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Dream Big: 10 Lessons Learned from Skydiving
On Monday, I had the opportunity to jump out of a plane from 10,000 feet in the air at 120 miles per hour. Yes, that’s right, I went skydiving! If you’ve seen my bio on the NRMC website, you would...
Topics: General
June 27, 2017
Resource Type: Risk Management Essentials
The Risk Champion Issue
Download Infographic What's Inside The Garden of Risk Oversight: Positioning the Board to Cultivate Strategic Risk-Taking Create A Risk Management Function That’s Built To Last What’s in a Word? Risk Management Leaders as Mission Champions
Topics: General