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New Online Course: When Changes Comes to Nonprofits (Ready or Not)

The Nonprofit Consultant

I have just added another online course to my Udemy offerings: When Change Comes to Nonprofits (Ready or Not!) In this course I share several case studies from my experiences of managing through crises as an Interim Executive Director. In fact, an apt sub-title for the course might have been Confessions of a Serial Interim ED.

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Change Readiness?—?Essential but Oft-Omitted

Harmonious Workplaces

During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning Organizational Development (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. I found this experience not only enlightening and a delight but also pragmatic and extremely helpful in the way I think about organizational change.

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Reimagine Your Nonprofit to Survive the Crisis

Harvard Business

Four key areas to focus on: impact, people, finances, and community.

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Consultant, Contractor, Freelancer - Labels Matter!

Successful Independent Consulting

Employees of major consulting firms like McKinsey and Accenture are called consultants, as are some in-house specialists deployed in an advisory role to work with teams outside of their own reporting structure (for example, an internal change management consultant). Freelancers direct their own work and are usually paid by the job.

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How to Figure Out Your Consulting Bill Rate

Successful Independent Consulting

Field of expertise — Consultants who can diagnose problems and create sound strategies and actionable plans can charge more than those who focus on more tactical work like project management. Government and nonprofits are used to paying much less than corporations. Generally, the larger the firm the higher their billing rates.

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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

Here are some excerpts from their résumés and profiles: PROFESSIONAL SUMMARIES Organizational change expert with 16 years of experience in large-scale technology implementations for the Fortune 500. Translation: change management for IT projects. Translation: turnaround expert. Translation: philanthropy expert.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

An investor-owned hospital executive whose company had acquired major nonprofit health care enterprises compared the proliferation of contracts to the growth of barnacles on the bottom of a freighter. Eliminating layers of management. In some larger nonprofit hospitals, there may be six. cancel or rebid them).

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