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Creating Multiple Streams of Income For Your Nonprofit
Lately I’ve been talking with a few nonprofits, trying to figure out how to get them to expand their thinking around fundraising. A few nonprofits seem to think that fundraising is mainly grants, events, appeals, and major gifts. But it can be so much more! In addition to grants, appeals, events, major gifts, etc, what [...]
Want to be more effective in your current or future job? Come and Take My Webinar!
Have you ever wanted to take a class with me? I am giving a webinar for TANO! (Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations) on September 22nd, 2010, from 2pm to 3:30pm Central Time, USA. The Official Details Managing Workplace Effectiveness Speaker Mazarine Treyz Position: Author, Blogger, Consultant Company: Wild Woman Fundraising Do you wish you could [...]
How to respond when a manager yells at you in front of staff
Perhaps this has happened to you. You’re doing your work, and suddenly your boss comes over and starts screaming at you.
Then they barge back into their office.
You wonder what just happened. Perhaps you start to cry. Perhaps you yell back. Perhaps you start to search for another job. How can you prevent verbal attacks? How can you stop the verbal attacker in their tracks? How can you make them understand that they are not going to get the rise out of you that they want?
How can you be an executive director? Come out today in Austin! 5:30-6:30pm!
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to sit on the other side of that desk? Have you ever wondered how people get to be executive directors? Today from 5:30 to 6:30pm at 2500 Exposition, Howson Branch Library, we are going to hear what it’s really like from Sue Thornton, former executive director of Texas [...]
Development 301: Managing and Motivating Others Part 2
How can you discover your strengths? How do you manage people? Have you taken the Gallup assessment, which was given to over 2 million people, and provided insights on 34 types you might have to manage at work? This can be an invaluable tool as you help people discover their strengths, and focus on these [...]
Development 301: Managing & Motivating Others Part 1
How can you motivate others? In three words: Strengths based management. What are your strengths? This post should help you. Here’s how it works. People naturally tend to want their autonomy, to want self-direction in their tasks, and to want to use their areas of greatest strength at work. This is based on surveys of [...]
How can you discover your strengths?
Let’s start with vocabulary. What is a strength? A strength is something that you can visualize yourself doing repeatedly, happily, and successfully. Talents are naturally recurring patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, which make up your strengths. Skills are the steps of an activity, Knowledge is facts and lessons learned. You need a system to [...]
Come hear what it’s like to be an executive director at the Nonprofit Career Club on August 10th!
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to sit on the other side of that desk? Have you ever wondered how people get to be executive directors? On August 10th, from 5:30 to 6:30pm at 2500 Exposition, Howson Branch Library, we are going to hear what it’s really like from Sue Thornton, former executive director [...]
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