Strategic Horizons – a Question Set to help you Align Your Org

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

What does it take for people to align behind change?

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?

2012 08 08 Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo book maze @ RFH - picture by @michaelambjorn

What we’re reading: the latest on alignment for the Third Sector

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

Impact Call: expanding the definition of transparency

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 … Continue reading Impact Call: expanding the definition of transparency

"London, always under construction" - 2016 03 28 @michaelambjorn St Paul's and craned - on Instagram

#ALIGN and the nine other important things you would want to know as trustee of a charity

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