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Types of Non-Profit Boards – Options for Governance Models
Although the literature in this area is extensive, in essence there are three different types of boards or models of…
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Managing Generational Diversity – 7 New Rules That Can Help!
I am a Baby Boomer – born between 1945 and 1964. When I was growing up, there were lots and…
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Correct Employee Performance Issues Using a Verbal Warning
Disciplinary action or “progressive discipline” is used to assist employees to improve sub-standard job performance. Performance issues addressed by this…
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Two Types of Performance Issues
There are two types of performance issues and also two reasons that an employee may not perform according to an…
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So What’s With This Younger Generation Anyway?
The Internet was alive this week with another round of stories about Generation Y and the struggle many appear to…
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Try Walking a Mile in Employees’ Shoes – You Might Learn a Few Valuable Lessons!
The hit reality TV show “Undercover Boss” follows managers of large corporations as they give up a soft boardroom chair…
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Tips for Surveying Staff Satisfaction – Part 2
This is the second of three blog posts covering a total of ten powerful tips for surveying employee engagement or…
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Tips for Surveying Staff Satisfaction – Part 1
This is the first of three blog posts covering a total of ten powerful tips for surveying employee engagement or…
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Slow Managers Aren’t the Same as “Slow Food”
Many readers will be familiar with the “Slow Food” movement in North America and Europe. World-class chefs and everyday kitchen…
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Management Has the Right to Manage
“A co-worker of mine applied for an internal promotion and did not get it. He threatened to quit and because…
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Executive Succession and Transition – A Risk Management Strategy – 5 Tips!
Tip #1 Identify the four major areas of succession planning to be attended to: emergency succession planning, planned departure succession…
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10 Tips for Effective 360 Degree Performance Appraisals
In more than 35 years in the nonprofit sector, I have yet to meet a supervisor or manager who loves…
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10 Tips for Creating Emergency Succession Plans for Your Nonprofit
It may come as a surprise that more than 75 percent of nonprofits in Canada do not have either emergency…
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