The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 20, 2007

Jonathan Peizer, of JP's Philanthropy Blog, had a great post yesterday called Being Smart and Being a Good Manager is Not the Same , and I've got to agree with him. Think about this in relation to how nonprofit managers come up through the ranks. But I didn't learn about management.

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Harmonious Workplaces

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

When auditing a sales report, the CRM manager notices the report omits contact information for many company accounts. The sales manager states that he doesn’t trust the other salespeople to not “steal his contacts,” so he does not report contact information, communications, or other data pertaining to his deals. Why allow stinginess?

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

For training on consulting skills, see the Consultants Development Institute. For more resources, see the Free Management Library’s topic All About Consulting. How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Career Management. Crisis Management. Free Management Library Blogs.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 2, 2018

Was it at a big firm with formal training (for example Deloitte, Bain & Company) or did you learn on the job as an internal resource with a company? If the latter, was it a company that provided access to training like General Electric, or a small to midsize firm? Type of experience — Where did you learn your craft?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2017

When it comes to training and workforce development, lots of them. In a 2014 survey , 55% of executives said a major constraint to investing in training was that they did not know how to measure success. The metrics we track include: productivity, cost savings in recruitment and training, quality, retention, and speed to promotion.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 5, 2013

How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Welcome to this 3-part article on managing resistance in consulting projects. For training on consulting skills, see the Consultants Development Institute. Career Management. This Blogs Home. Guest Writer Submissions. To Subscribe to a Blog.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Managing Boundaries in Systems By Jim Smith on September 28, 2010. Systems manage their boundaries, for better of for worse: too open boundaries threaten the system with a loss of identity, too tight and the systems tend to run down. How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Read more.].

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 13, 2010

When Consultants Should Facilitate, Coach or Train By Carter McNamara on April 13, 2010. There are strong feelings that consulting, facilitating, coaching and training are very different roles. Ongoing contributions usually do not come from clients during trainings or when receiving advice from experts. To Subscribe to a Blog.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 21, 2010

OD vs. Training – Or Is It? For example, many Organization Development practitioners almost look down on training as scoped to working only with individuals and not the broader context of organizations as does OD (by the way, we OD’rs prefer that you capitalize the name of our field. Are You Doing OD? Consulting? All of These?

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 7, 2011

(To learn more about consulting processes, see the topic Consultants in the Free Management Library.). Should You Start a For-Profit or a Nonprofit? Starting a Nonprofit Organization. Risk Management. Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. Career Management.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

They usually provide highly specialized content expertise regarding certain specific systems and processes in the organization, for example, computer systems, financial and accounting systems, market research or facilities management. Management consultants. Many organizations hire technical consultants.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 28, 2010

Be Careful About Proclaiming "Failed Management Movements"! Last week, I got a call from a consultant who lamented the “failure of all those management movements.” ” As usual in these conversations, the caller went on to explain how his particular idea was what leaders and managers really needed.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

LinkedIn, the social network for professionals of all sectors, has just announced the launch of their new Board Connect service for nonprofit organizations. Best of all, the service is free to nonprofits ( business use of the Talent Finder can cost $1,000). So, what could be wrong with all this?

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Women in Consulting

MAY 22, 2012

Peer-to-peer Fundraising Email Marketing Website Management Website Design Payment Processing Sphere Know How Blog Sphere Knowledgebase Sphere Forum Case Central Sphere Connect Sphere Connect Partners Blackbaud Connect Partner Network Overview Partner Login. Nonprofit Management. Nonprofit Internet Solutions.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 10, 2010

We live in traditional organizations that are functional and vertically managed. Work is aligned by function and managed vertically up and down the line. Work is being organized by process as much as function, it is managed by multi-functional teams, which are quicker in producing customer driven results. Are you seeing these?

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MARCH 5, 2019

After four years of working as a "permanent" full-time Executive Director, launching a start-up nonprofit, and only taking a few short-term consulting gigs from existing clients, I am once again available for new opportunities. Not to forget operating programs at a different location while managing the construction at home base.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

I was super excited, and I had this opportunity to be an internal consultant for a nonprofit organization. We had career development, organizational development, training, and development. The purpose of this particular training is I want to expand your vision around your role. Positioning Pitfalls (5:58).

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

I was super excited, and I had this opportunity to be an internal consultant for a nonprofit organization. We had career development, organizational development, training, and development. The purpose of this particular training is I want to expand your vision around your role. Positioning Pitfalls (5:58).

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 23, 2010

Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. ” Free Management Library and iBrand Masters Tweets 2010-04-25 | Marketing April 25, 2010 at 7:16 pm | Permalink. [.] How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Career Management. Read more.].

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JULY 26, 2010

Management is always across boundaries. Add to all this, is a very important principle of open systems: managing the polarities of the simultaneous need for both differentiation and integration. How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Career Management. Crisis Management.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The organization wants a consultant to lend credibility to a decision that has already been made, for example, the Board of Directors has decided to reorganize the nonprofit, but the Chief Executive Officer disagrees – so the Board hires a consultant to lend expert credibility to their decision. Career Management. Read more.].

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 14, 2013

So, we’d be sitting with a group of managers listening to them talk about their difficult issues. « Previous Next » Meet this Blog’s Co-Hosts Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organization development and consultant training services, and is developer of the Free Management Library.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 26, 2011

” Assessments should use the pareto principle, i.e., focus on some “best practices” in each of the major management functions. Focus on leadership and managment “systems/structures,” not on people (which can be hard to do with today’s infatuation with heroic leaders. ” Look at life cycles.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 11, 2010

Maybe because of the many consultant trainings that focus almost exclusively on the “human” side of things, with very little, if any, attention to the “business” topics. Many of them have extensive experience in management. Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. Well said Carter.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 28, 2010

Boundary management means the protection and support of a differentiated development culture and the managed change of this culture when appropriate. Establishing and managing boundaries is both necessary and problematic. How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Career Management.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 14, 2010

« Previous Next » Meet this Blog’s Co-Hosts Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organization development and consultant training services, and is developer of the Free Management Library. How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Career Management.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 21, 2011

If all they tried was training, then they might have a very short-term view of how to fix things.). Did your client make any effort to manage change, when addressing their issue? That question starts to alert them to the need to carefully manage change, and opens the door for you to start teaching them.). Read more.].

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 22, 2023

Leadership Coaching helps you grow your confidence and competence regardless of whether you are an emerging leader, frontline leader, mid-level manager, executive, or business owner. The executive manager is not doing their job, and the organization is looking to outsource the executive manager role. Bluckert, P. Dean, M., &

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Consulting and Organizational Management

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

See these topics in the Free Management Library: Organizational Change. « Previous Next » Meet this Blog’s Co-Hosts Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organization development and consultant training services, and is developer of the Free Management Library. Career Management.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Once I graduated with my Bachelor’s, I was a financial analyst by day and managed a bar a few nights per week. A year after graduation, my rugby career started to show promise and I quit my analyst job to focus on training and competing. As luck would have it, I was able to take an ownership role at the bar I was managing.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 7, 2011

« Previous Next » Meet this Blog’s Co-Hosts Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organization development and consultant training services, and is developer of the Free Management Library. How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Career Management.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

The profession has become filled with niche players……executive coaching, team building, process improvement, change management, etc. How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Career Management. Crisis Management. Free Management Library Blogs. Fundraising for Nonprofits.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 6, 2013

Often these internal consultants are in large organizations and from training and development or human resource departments. For training on consulting skills, see the Consultants Development Institute. For more resources, see the Free Management Library’s topic All About Consulting. Career Management. Read more.].

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 10, 2010

However, even in projects where you are an expert consultant, for example, training clients how to conduct a certain procedure, your client must participate substantially in the project. Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. Carmen Gattuso December 27, 2010 at 10:52 am | Permalink.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Some experts on leadership and management assert that highly experienced people often have developed intuition that enables them to make quick, effective decisions. How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Career Management. Crisis Management. Free Management Library Blogs.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

So here they are: The top 10 management consulting firms in the very global, very dynamic, always-changing District of Columbia! The DC office management pushes training programs and the culture is all about grooming employees into McKinsey-bred consultants; they do everything they can to stay on top.

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