We’ve all been a part of or watched an organization with a great mission begin to have trouble attracting supporters, board members, officers and, if it’s a membership organization, even members. Why does this happen?
If you’re looking for ways to reward your trusted employees that won’t break the bank, think about sending them home. Providing the opportunity to work from home (WFH) is an affordable benefit you can offer.
Whether you’re raising money, selling products or services, recruiting employees or simply trying to be a good corporate citizen, it’s important for your community to know how to think of your company. It’s called “branding” these days.
Recently, a colleague who is an executive with a very large nonprofit corporation two time-zones away made the following statement: “Board members are important. I feel about them the same way I feel about my dentist, my lawyer and my CPA. I love them; I just don’t want to see them very often.”
In a recent Align article we presented the pros and cons of using a third-party facilitator. Now we will give you some insight into the benefits of engaging an Align consultant, as reported from the experiences of two of our recent clients. The story is written in first-person (with no quotation marks) for readability. It is a compilation of the comments of two clients but was not written by either of them.