by Jeff Schreifels | Aug 9, 2023 | Employee Management, Employee Retention, Managing, Non-Profit Leadership | Hiring and Retaining Staff, Leadership, Management
Typically, the attitude we see when non-profits hire someone is that they believe the newly hired person should be grateful to the organization for selecting them, and that they need to demonstrate their value quickly to prove they are a good investment. What if we...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Feb 4, 2022 | Communication, Managing, Trust | Hiring, Leadership, Management
This post is part-four in a four-part series titled “Reimagining the Non-Profit Workplace” My guess is that right now, either you or someone you know has left or is thinking about leaving their organization for another position. In this blog series, “Reimagining the...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Jan 28, 2022 | Front-line Fundraisers, leadership, Managing | Leadership, Management, Teamwork
This post is part-one in a four-part series titled “Reimagining the Non-Profit Workplace” If you’re a front-line fundraiser, your non-profit organization does not care about you. If it did, you either wouldn’t be thinking of leaving right now, or they would have kept...
by Jeff Schreifels | Jul 24, 2024 | Managing, Non-profit leaders, Non-Profit Leadership | Leadership, Management, Metrics
We’ve written quite a bit about how leaders and managers should manage the frontline fundraisers on their team to their greatest potential, as well as the challenges leaders commonly have when managing those fundraisers on their team. And we’ve also talked a lot about...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Sep 16, 2019 | Development Directors, Fundraising, leadership, Managing | Development Directors, Major Gifts, Non-Profits
I could tell he was very frustrated. And he felt misunderstood. To put it plainly, he could not get management to understand that without program information he would not be successful. The person I was talking to was a very talented MGO who had a long track record...