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Leading a Nonprofit Organization in Tough Times
Thriving, Not Just Surviving
Laura Zumdahl
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Agenda
12:00 pm Introduction to Session
12:10 pm Setting the Stage: Challenges Facing Nonprofits Today
12:30 pm Top Ten Strategies for Low-Cost Organizational Growth & Development
1:00pm Discussion
1:10 pm The Walk Back to Your Office: Personal Next Steps
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Skills Nonprofit Leaders Need
• Leadership skills needed:– Tactic knowledge about leadership– Emotional Intelligence
• Management skills needed:– Managing the finances & accounting systems – Working effectively with external groups
(consultants, etc.)– Working with boards– Marketing
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Importance of Leadership In Nonprofits
•Today: 1.46 million nonprofit organizations in the U.S.
• Annual revenue of $1,764,567,135,520
• Nonprofits employees make up 10% of the workforce
•Future: More nonprofit leaders needed by 2016:
• 640,000 new senior mangers will be needed
• 2.4 times the current number employed
(Bridgespan Report, 2006)
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Nonprofits & the Recession•Nonprofits are already hurting
•75% are feeling the effects of the recession
•Only 28% have well-defined contingency plans in place
•Increased expectations on nonprofits during tough economic times:
• Increased efficiency
• Ability to demonstrate results
• Partnerships between nonprofits
• Partnerships that go beyond cash donations for corporations
(Barton & Preston, 2008; Bridgespan Group, 2009)
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Trends in Nonprofits
Trends in nonprofits as they deal with tough economic times:
• Focus on “green”
• Volunteers rather than funds
• Skills-based volunteering
• Mergers between organizations
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Fundamental Strategies to SurviveStrategies for managing financial uncertainty:
• Open communication and protect trusted relationships
• Focus on your core mission and strengths
• Prioritize activities
• Make realistic contingency plans
• Develop resources aggressively
• Engage in strategic partnerships
• Manage your cash flow
(Raffa & Cocchiaro, 2008)
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Top Ten Strategies for Achieving
Low-Cost Organizational Growth & Development
in a Challenging Economy
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1. Stare it in the face
•Face the reality of the economy and your organization
•What is the big thing lurking in your organization?
“Almost no one doing serious business today was alive during the depression.”
--Bob Lutz, Vice Chairman, GM
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2. Communicate StrengthRemember, nobody gets on
board a sinking ship
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Communicate Strength
•Strengthen the quality of external communications
•Amateur publications imply amateur work
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Goodbye….
Hello…
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3. Be Distinctive•What messages about your organization are you sending?
•Brand
•Elevator Speech
•Use the distinctives of your organization to your advantage
•Faith-based
•Unique service model
•“One and only”
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4. Get the Right Team in Place
Operate in your areas of strength
Strengthen the team
Move out underperformers
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Strengthen Your TeamQuestions to ask yourself:
• Can anyone in the organization do the task as well or better than me?
• If not, do I have the right team members in place?
What are your greatest strengths that contribute most to the success of your organization?• What percentage of the average day are you
engaged in tasks that utilize those strengths?
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Strengthen Your TeamTeam or Group?
Trower, C. (2008).
State Champs Headed to Playoff Game
8:15 am Weekday City Bus
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Strengthen Your TeamWhat is a team?
Katzenbach, J.R. & Smith, D. K. (2003).
A team is a small number of people with complementary skills, who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.
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Strengthen Your Team
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5. Think Big PictureBad BHAGs, it turns out, are
set with bravado; good BHAGs are set with
understanding. Indeed, when you combine quiet
understanding of the three circles with the audacity of a BHAG, you get a powerful,
almost magical mix.”–Jim Collins, Good to Great
What you are deeply passionate about
What drives your economic engine
What you can be the best in the world at
BHAG
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Involve Your Team
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6. Grow your friends•Strengthen/create impactful auxiliary boards
Success:
Young Professionals Board
Next Target:
Former Interns
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6. Grow Your Friends
Create“superevanglists”
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7. Collaborate
Collaboration, not competition
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8. Raise your visibility through increased community participation
Involve the whole communityHave a service orientation
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9. In-Kind, In-Kind, In-Kind!
“Do it pro bono”
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Have standards, but be creative
Building Supplies Website & Design Services
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10. Lead
Your greatest assets as a
leader are free!
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What characteristics do they want to see in you?
Kouzes & Posner (2002).
88% Honest
71% Forward-Looking
66% Competent
65% Inspiring
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Questions?
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What ideas could I move forward on
right away to begin achieving
growth & strengthening my
organization?
The Walk Back to Your Office
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Recommended Reading•Buckingham, M. (2005). The One Thing You Need to Know…About Great Managing, Great Leading and Sustained Individual Success. Free Press.
•Collins, J. (2001). Good to great: Why some companies make the leap…and others don’t.New York: Harper.
•Crutchfield, L. & Grant, H. M. (2008). Forces for good: The six practices of high-impact nonprofits. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
•Kouzes, J. M. & Posner, B. Z. (2008). The Leadership Challenge. San Francisco: Jossey- Bass.
•Linsky, M. & Heifetz, R. A. (2002). Leadership on the line: Staying alive through the dangers of leading. Harvard Business School Press.
•Patterson, K., Grenny, J., McMillan, R., Switzler, A., & Covey, S. R. (2002). Crucialconversations: Tools for talking with stakes are high. McGraw-Hill.
•Watkins, M. (2003). The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for Leaders at All Levels. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
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