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Here's a brief question set to help you think about strategic horizons. Useful in the board room, as a team - and as an individual. It should be fairly self-explanatory - once you work through these three steps: Start by reviewing the X and then the Y axis. Then move on to Page 2 for … Continue reading Strategic Horizons – a Question Set to help you Align Your Org
This is the question that brought together 69 facilitation, communications and change management professionals over two one-hour twitter chats last October during International Facilitation Week - and Martin Gilbraith and I are now doing a follow-up for 2016 in the form of a webinar. During the session we will: invite you to share some of your own experience … Continue reading What does it take for people to align behind change?
“How can I have more purposeful & productive conversations, bring out the wisdom of a group, encourage feedback between people, and reach shared awareness in meetings? How can I generate and weave together a diverse range of ideas, develop creative solutions and build a group consensus?” Here's our answer - skill up on your group … Continue reading An effective method to #alignyourorg
A round-up of recent materials that can help you with your alignment work - this issue is focused on Alignment for the Third Sector but many of these insights apply across all sectors. A new guide to the Chair-CEO relationship is out A Question of Balance – a guide to the Chair and Chief Executive … Continue reading What we’re reading: the latest on alignment for the Third Sector
Following the recent #FacWeekChat which Martin Gilbraith, Faith Forster and I co-hosted - here's the Storify - kindly collated by Martin.
Just finished participating in the first ever GuideStar Impact Call: bit like an earnings call for a corporate – just adapted for non-profits (see more further down).
If you run a charitable / voluntary organisation and want to be both transparent and accountable to your stakeholders, then this is a format worth experimenting with. Don’t take my word for it though – check out the feedback comments people have posted here: http://trust.guidestar.org/2014/02/21/feedback-to-first-impact-call/
Why? Here’s a strong case put across in less than 140 characters:
From @GuideStarUSA CFO: There is a cost to #npos for *not* being transparent. Timely data adds effectiveness of decision making. #GuideStar — Lori Larson (@LoriLarson_KC) February 24, 2014
I hope the good people at GuideStar are planning to make a how-to or other good practice documentation available so that others can easily replicate.
Meanwhile, if you need help thinking through broader alignment of of your strategy with your reporting, get in touch.
Michael Ambjorn is founder of // Align Your Org and board director @IABC – follow @michaelambjorn for more of the above. You can also join the conversation: #ALIGN and in this case of course #GuideStar
GuideStar led the first revolution in nonprofit transparency by posting IRS Forms 990 online nearly two decades ago. That resulted in greater accountability in nonprofit practice and greater transparency in compensation, program effectiveness, and giving across the sector.
James Lum, GuideStar’s CFO
Now we’re helping to lead a second revolution. We want to expand the definition of transparency to be more timely, interactive, inclusive, and comprehensive.
On Monday, February 24, at 2 pm ET, we are holding the first ever Impact Call, and we invite you tojoin us. Loosely based on the quarterly earnings calls held by publicly-owned companies, the Impact Call is open to everyone and will be the first step in addressing these new transparency definitions.
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The executive director of Nesta sets out in a recent article what she thinks are the factors that will make voluntary organisations thrive in the coming ten years: "What makes charities more likely to thrive? Which charities will do well? Like in any sector, it is the organisations that best adapt to change and innovate in … Continue reading Deliberate
From an exchange on the Guardian Voluntary Sector Network: What are the ten most important things you would want to know as trustee of a charity? Here's my response: It depends on whether I was considering stepping up or already a trustee of an organisation. So I've taken the liberty of splitting the ten into two … Continue reading #ALIGN and the nine other important things you would want to know as trustee of a charity
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