Tags: Risk Management Basics
March 6, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Think of It This Way, That Way, or Another Way
One of my favorite sleep apps encourages insomniac users to say the mantra “Don’t Think” over and over while listening to a distracting noise pattern. I’ve learned that green is my favorite distracting “noise” and “don’t think” is a helpful...
Topics: General
February 28, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Choose Better Words to Fight Resistance to Risk
When I was young, my parents encouraged us to make wise language choices. Cursing was verboten in our household and a stern look followed any use of crass terms, even common ones. Recently I’ve spoken to several risk leaders who...
Topics: General
January 31, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Make Wise Risk Moves, Not Hasty Resolutions, This Year
In his recent New York Times guest essay titled “This Year, Make a Resolution About Something Bigger Than Yourself,” author Roger Rosenblatt urges readers to put aside “self-oriented promises” and choose “airtight commitments” to improve our world. He writes: “The task of...
Topics: General
December 22, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
NRMC’s 2023 in Review
Nonprofits faced lots of opportunities and challenges in 2023, and NRMC helped them navigate that landscape of struggles and joys. More than thirty years after its founding, NRMC remains proud to empower and inspire effective risk management across the nonprofit...
Topics: General
September 27, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
6 Signs You Might Need to Hire a Full-Time Risk Manager
Wondering if your organization needs to hire someone to handle risk management full-time? Every nonprofit, and every risk management journey, is different. We can’t offer you a magic formula that will tell you whether you need to hire a risk...
Topics: General
June 22, 2023
Resource Type: Articles
How Your Team Can Reframe Challenges as Opportunities
Have you ever sensed that your nonprofit team adopts a negative frame when you’re talking about a challenge or downside risk? Reframing a challenge as an opportunity could help your team break out of frustration mode, get curious, and form...
Topics: General
May 15, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Relish the Ride: Tap into Powerful Lessons to Manage Mission Risk
“I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.” – Buckminster Fuller “Are we there yet?” “Why is this taking so long?” “If we hadn’t hit traffic, we would be there already.” “We should have left earlier!” If...
Topics: General
April 24, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
To Reach Your Risk Potential, Tell Better Stories
This month I’ve been obsessively watching Season #1 of The Big Door Prize, on AppleTV+. The show’s mechanical protagonist is Morpho, a machine that—after collecting two bits of Personally Identifiable Information—offers a forecast of one’s ‘true potential’. Reactions from townsfolk to...
Topics: General
February 7, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Live Long and Prosper: Strategies for Longevity in Risk and Life
When NRMC meets with prospective consulting clients, they almost always express concern about sustaining their risk management efforts. We hear things like: “We were full speed ahead when we began our ERM program a few years back, but it has...
Topics: General
November 28, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Make Progress in Your Risk Program Real, Not a Mirage
In their terrific book, Risk: A User’s Guide, authors McChrystal and Butrico describe “structure” as one of 10 dimensions of building a “Risk Immune System.” But they caution readers that changing the structure of a function may not necessarily mean the...
Topics: General