I just returned from a job interview for the position of CEO of a nonprofit organization. In their strategic plan, they indicated that they were going to hire a full-time fund development manager to handle all development areas, and that...
Can you tell me if there are generational differences when it comes to employee engagement? Some people insist that there are, while others say that engagers at work span the generations and are common to them. What an excellent question!...
Late last year, Imagine Canada, one of the nation’s prominent voluntary sector think tanks, released the following document -- Leadership Perspectives: Interviews with leaders of Canada’s charities and nonprofit organizations. The document surveyed 32 sector leaders across numerous sub-sectors on...
Build understanding and collaboration: Paid staff are respected and are empowered to fully participate in planning, decision-making and management related to volunteer involvement. There is a conscious, active effort to reduce the boundaries and increase the teamwork between paid and...
In this month's column, we look at some of the warning signs that the stress in your life may be getting out of control. In next month's column I will share some strategies for coping with such stress and staying...
Is it ethical to hire our executive director on a fee-for-service basis rather than on salary? Does this arrangement help us avoid liabilities such as an unjust dismissal suit if we terminate the individual? Many organizations do use this method,...
How many of you head into work each day feeling less-than-enthused, bone-tired before you even get to the office, and anxious about having to face both your boss and that endless pile of paperwork on your desk? If that sounds...
Much of what I read these days about human resources laments the lack of a strategic focus for the function. HR leaders bemoan their inability to get a seat at the strategic table. And, yet, surely with the coming talent...
In an earlier column, you wrote about giving performance feedback. You used the words positive/negative, actionable/not actionable, and appropriate/inappropriate to describe different kinds of feedback, and you promised to revisit the issue in a later column. It wasn’t clear to...
For those of a certain vintage, being an employee in a mid-to-large workplace came with the obvious trappings - nosy colleagues, demanding work schedules, bad cafeteria food (or worse, bad snack machine edibles), and the dreaded year-end “performance review”. You...
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