Tags: Risk Management Basics
January 5, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Keep it Real: Choose Rational Risk Resolutions
It’s that wonderful time of year when nonprofit leaders (and everyone else!) get busy making lists of the things we aspire to do, resolve to do, and sometimes actually accomplish. The act of sharing goals and resolutions with a friend...
Topics: General
December 28, 2021
Resource Type: Risk eNews
The Top 10 of 2021’s RISK eNews
In 2021, the world entered the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many nonprofits began to hit their stride. Most risk leaders became more familiar and comfortable approaching risks with a novelty that constantly shifting plans required. The NRMC team...
Topics: General
August 11, 2021
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Doing Nothing Might Be Worth the Risk
The looming “turnover tsunami” has caused many nonprofit leaders to clutch at ways to retain the competent workforce they’ve built over the years. Recently, our team has advised both consulting clients, affiliate members, and Risk eNews readers about the range...
Topics: General
July 8, 2021
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Focus on Residual Resilience, Not Residual Risks
What value does your organization derive from risk management? Controlling specific financial losses and harm? Or cultivating a capacity for resilience no matter what losses or liability might arise? Risk management often looks at singular risks inside a vacuum, determining...
Topics: General
June 22, 2021
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Perfect is the Mortal Enemy of the Good: Why Minimum Viable Risk Practices are Perfect
Seasoned hiring managers and interviewers often listen carefully for an interviewee’s response that acts as a red flag waving “don’t hire this person!” For me, it’s a statement like this: “I’m a perfectionist,” or “My biggest weakness is that I...
Topics: General
May 11, 2021
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Spring Planting: Finding Inspiration to Spruce Up Your Risk Management Program
Every spring, I get an itch to spruce up my home and garden with colorful, cheerful plants. Similarly, risk leaders often feel inspired to do some spring cleaning and infuse their risk programs with new practices to make them brighter...
Topics: General
April 14, 2021
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Humble Haiku’s Mighty Lessons for Risk Leaders
This Saturday is International Haiku Poetry Day, leading me to reflect on the lessons I’ve learned from this simple form of poetry—the humble haiku. If you’re wondering how this pint-sized poem has the potential to teach risk leaders important lessons about...
Topics: General
April 8, 2021
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Choose Your Own Adventure to Risk and Reward
If you’ve ever faced a personal crisis or a crisis at your organization, you know how all-consuming and paralyzing it can be. It’s hard to see beyond the hour or the day when the bad news keeps coming. During these...
Topics: General
March 25, 2021
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Choose Essential: Define Your Singular Risk Priority
This week I’ve been reading Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. The book’s themes touch on a prickly subject for me: saying “no.” A very wise friend once told me that we often say yes out of...
Topics: General
March 21, 2021
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Do This, Not That: 5 Essential Risk Policy Drafting Tips
This week I’ve been busy helping consulting clients and Affiliate Members make sense of (and hopefully improve!) an array of longstanding risk-themed policies, from employee handbooks to vendor contracts and risk-scoring frameworks. In between writing and re-writing, I was able...
Topics: General