Worplace Motivation

The Board of Directors: Your secret fundraising weapon or biggest headache?

June 13, 2017 by Teri Beckman 1 Comment

Honestly, is your Board of Directors your secret weapon or biggest headache as a CEO or Executive Director of a nonprofit organization?

We all know the story of the board that does not perform at the level the Executive Director and the organization need, the frustration with unsuccessfully eliciting more commitment and engagement from board members, the painful board meetings where the ED does all the talking.

Let’s change that.

If the board is not your secret weapon catapulting you towards higher and higher levels of fundraising and program impact…keep reading.

Richard Gottlieb, Senior Services of Forsyth County’s recently retired Executive Director knows how to create such a board. (Read more about Senior Service’s growth in this earlier post based on a generous interview with Richard early this year.) Richard had a simple goal: “to develop the best board in town.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Board Development, High Performance Tagged With: Becoming A Leader, communication, team building, Worplace Motivation

4 Ways to Motivate Yourself and Your Team

June 30, 2014 by Teri Beckman Leave a Comment

Healthy engagement feels like fireworks! There is spark, creativity and joy. Anything becomes possible in business.

I read with interest the New York Times article “Why You Hate Work”. It is a bit of a manifesto on disengagement and lack of motivation at work.

Tony Schwartz and Christine Porath define engagement (per a number of studies) as “involvement, commitment, passion, enthusiasm, focused effort and energy”.

Motivated workers are engaged and engagement is widely correlated with higher performance at work. According to Gallup studies across 192 companies, [Read more…]