Follow This Checklist to Prepare for Courageous Conversations
I don’t know how we think we can avoid it. Our organizations are made up of people with different personalities, expectations, cultural experiences, and communication styles working together 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week. Why on earth would we think there won’t be...
Managing Your Fight-or-Flight Response for More Courageous Conversations
As a leader, when someone on your team is being territorial and difficult, it’s a good idea to pause and think about why. Possibly, like Jeff just talked about in his previous two blogs, it has to do with your culture, systems, or structures. You need to ask yourself...
Can We All Get Along?
If your work as a fundraiser is to help a donor experience the most possible joy through their giving by enabling them to give to projects and programs that will help change the world, then it should be your responsibility to create an environment that makes it as...
What to Do with Your Major Donors After You Close the Books
I was recently on a Live Community Q&A call for our Veritus Group Academy participants and was inspired by the conversation. It was the first call of the year, and the ideas of what to do with your major donors this time of year were flowing. There was so much...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
