By Nina Sochon: For most of the 20th century, people went to offices in cars the way parts were carried along a conveyor belt – predictably, almost uniformly. Then in the 1970s a cheeky Astronaut – Jack Nilles – proposed that working from home could revolutionise productivity and reduce strain on infrastructure – an apparent […]
By Chris Gandy One of the most common questions we are asked by Not for Profit Boards who find themselves in a position of suddenly having to search for a new Chief Executive is: “What should we look for in a new CEO?” To be honest such questions fill us with joy as they demonstrate […]
By Nina Sochon : Imagine you are the leader of a team where occasional blaming and backstabbing are the norm. Conflicts are frequent and they don’t always result in a healthy outcome. Occasionally conflict has quite a significant impact on your team’s productivity. You want to bring out the best in your people but your […]
For the most part we work with people trying to deal with social problems – homelessness, drug and alcohol issues, displaced people, domestic violence, literacy, education participation etc. For many these can be highly challenging and, at times, demoralising assignments. Ones that are not made easier by a media that sensationalize and overemphasises our perceived […]
Much has been written about the need for NFPs to embrace “a long term view with short-term action” concerning strategy, if they want to meet financial sustainability. As well as adopting this strategic philosophy, the NFP wants to have agile and flexible; governance, culture, processes and systems as the client/customer “value proposition” which drives sustainability, […]
Whether or not today’s businesses recognise it, flexible work is now the number one tool for reducing office and workforce costs, and for doing ‘more with less’. Just as technology has become an increasingly important part of the workplace in the past decade, there is a similarly helpful tool now at our disposal. It […]
Are you tired of being asked, “Why can’t you run your not for profit like a business?” I’ve written about how not for profits can use advice written for businesses (with just a little translation). When it comes to not for profit finance, however, some business wisdom is just wrong. Clara Miller, the former director […]
Cases of employees losing their jobs for careless social media postings have been well documented in the media over the last few years, and sometimes have gone before the courts. With the self-publishing nature of social media and the desire to share opinions on all sorts of issues, comes the very real possibility that something […]
By Nina Sochon In days gone past, not-for-profits saw flexible work as a cost to the organisation – a nice-to-have. In today’s tight economy, clever not-for-profits are reinventing the way they work by using technology to enable flexibility. This in turn helps organisations get the right people for the job and deliver fantastic service […]
By Chris Gandy Certainly there has been a fair degree of budget tightening flowing through the majority of our sector and the immediate outlook is to expect more of the same. From my perspective I have noticed this has increased the amount of hand wringing and blaming external factors but, alarmingly, not a lot of […]
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