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Leadership Traps to Avoid

Leadership Traps to Avoid

Leadership is about taking action to bring about change.  It can be to produce better results.  It can be to change the culture or environment in your company.  It can be about establishing a core set of values.  It certainly is about getting your team to buy-in to...
Tips for a Successful Start as a New Leader

Tips for a Successful Start as a New Leader

You have just been hired as the new vice president for development at the state’s leading public university.  You have earned this job from a national search with hundreds over very qualified candidates because of your expertise, experience and success. You have...
How Good is Your Fundraising Shop

How Good is Your Fundraising Shop

We all strive to have a “best-in class” fundraising operation at the organizations we represent.  We want to raise the most money, be the most efficient, provide the greatest return on investment, make the biggest impact and give our volunteers something to brag...
Leadership:  Finding Balance

Leadership: Finding Balance

Leaders must find balance! It seems like I have been leading my entire life!  I was promoted into a leadership position at age 24 at a major institution and I have been leading ever since.  I have led the fundraising operations at major organizations such as the...
How to Be A Better Leader in the Workplace

How to Be A Better Leader in the Workplace

A 2015 survey of workplace culture cited 50% of those questioned left a job because of their manager. It can be difficult to be a good leader without the right tools. Faulty leadership skills can lead to reduced productivity around the office. While some people seem...
Managing Fundraising Expectations

Managing Fundraising Expectations

Matt Kupec originally published this post on his fundraising website.  How often as fundraiser leaders have we sat in a meeting when we heard somebody say “fundraising should be easy” when discussing a particular project which is short on funds.  At the same meeting,...