Tags: Risk Management Basics
January 22, 2020
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Just My Cup of Team
“We may be hard-wired for power struggles, greed, and workplace conflicts. But as social creatures, we also derive enormous pleasure from creating, sharing, and implementing new ideas with other people.” – Amy C. Edmondson What better time than January, the...
Topics: General
December 20, 2019
Resource Type: Webinars
Risk Management: It’s FUN-damental
Knowing when, where and how to get started with risk management is sometimes daunting; figuring out how to make it fun is more so! During this webinar NRMC staff share how to maximize risk management ‘wins’ and learn from epic...
Topics: General
November 6, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Systemic Failure and Risk Management
“You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.” – Marvin Minsky The other night, I happened to catch the documentary program “Retro Report” on PBS. Retro Report is a nonprofit news organization that produces mini documentaries that...
Topics: General
June 20, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
6 Risk Trends that Matter to Your Mission
Yesterday I read with interest Kate Barr’s new blog post titled 8 Trends in the Nonprofit Sector. Kate is the President & CEO of Propel Nonprofits, an organization that supports nonprofits in Minnesota and adjacent states. Propel’s finance factsheets, worksheets...
April 3, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Out of Focus: How Being Less Focused (and More Aware) Pays Off
Mindfulness, like it’s complement gratitude, has been much hyped—with good reason. Our underlying mindset and conditioning are nearly invisible to most of us; by itself, the conscious mind is insufficient to get at the deeper mindset. Nonjudgmental, present-moment awareness (aka mindfulness...
Topics: General
March 14, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Heartfelt Risk Lessons From an Authoritarian Piano Teacher
If you learned to play a musical instrument as a child, like I did, then you may agree that music appreciation does not always happen in the first few lessons. How many of us wish that our 10-year-old selves had...
March 13, 2019
Resource Type: Articles
Risking It All to Save the World: An Analysis of Risk Management Practice and Risk Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector
The risk management discipline continues to evolve and gain traction across the nonprofit sector, with organizational leaders recognizing risk management as a mechanism for loss prevention, quality improvement, informed decision-making, and mission advancement. Using results of two recent surveys conducted...
Topics: General
February 28, 2019
Resource Type: Articles
Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change
Elastic, by Leonard Mlodinow, is available from Amazon and other booksellers. The NRMC team is pleased to feature this book review from Felix Kloman, a former member of our board and long-time student of the discipline of risk management. A graduate...
Topics: General
February 25, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Get Fresh: How to Solve Wicked Problems by Scrapping Sameness
“Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which they were created.” – Albert Einstein This week I’ve been reading Sticky Wisdom: How to Start a Creative Revolution at Work. The first chapter of the book explores what the...
Topics: General
February 19, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Clearing the Air: How to Find Powerful Lessons After a Loss or Near Miss
The hindsight bias, also known as the “I-knew-it-all-along” effect, is the tendency to believe that past events were predictable. In the risk realm, an important part of a risk leader’s responsibility is reflecting on mistakes, losses, near misses and situations...
Topics: General