What are your natural competencies as a leader? If you don’t know, how can you find out? And why should you care anyways?We’re helping today’s nonprofit leaders (and tomorrow’s nonprofit leaders in the making) answer these questions! Natural Competencies vs Core CompetenciesSomeone’s natural competencies are the things they are naturally good at without needing any practice. When we say […]
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As nonprofit consultants, we often talk internally about the challenges our clients are facing. We will share with each other regarding cause-specific issues, new challenges, and emerging opportunities. Since our team is comprised of experienced nonprofit leaders that work mainly in interim Executive Director roles, we have a unique vantage point that offers us valuable […]
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Last month we published a resource on executive onboarding for nonprofits that aimed to help boards set their Executive Directors (EDs) up for success. Our team of nonprofit consultants worked together, leveraging their many years of experience, to create a clear roadmap for onboarding an ED with activities that spanned from day one to the end of […]
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Imagine the following scenarios: In the nonprofit space, like all spaces, things go wrong. This can happen regardless of your level of preparation, financial capacity, and good intentions. Organizational leaders at the board and staff level need to know what has gone wrong and why so that they can make informed course corrections. Usually, the sooner they know, the […]
Congrats, you have a new Executive Director! Now it’s time to set them up for success!Successfully navigating an executive leadership transition is one of the board’s most important jobs. It’s a big lift to find the organization’s next inspiring leader, and it’s important to celebrate the hiring milestone. But, as much as we may wish […]
Delegating is both one of the best gifts that leaders can give and one of the hardest gifts for them to give. It’s difficult because it requires trust that the work at hand will be done to the standards of the leader delegating it in terms of quality, timeliness, accuracy, and scope. When looking at […]
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What makes the best nonprofit leaders the best? In our line of work that’s something we talk about and strive to define every day. It’s an intensely human question, and at times it can be painfully introspective as well. But like most important questions, it’s one that makes us better for asking.So, is greatness something […]
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As a society we’ve weathered the storm of the pandemic and its subsequent prolonged fallout and now are firmly in what is being considered the “post-COVID” era. So, what does this mean for nonprofit organizations operating in today’s day and age?At each juncture our consultants have given their advice on how nonprofits should respond during […]
As a nonprofit director or manager, how do you know when you’re ready to step into an executive leadership role? Our team of nonprofit leaders regularly uses their experience to help nonprofit career professionals answer this question as part of our board advisory work and interim executive leadership engagements. We act as mentors during nonprofit leadership transitions when the […]
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Every day we at Valtas are brought into nonprofit organizations to help them have difficult conversations. Whether these conversations are related to the strategy, culture, leadership, direction, or day-to-day operations, we help facilitate respectful communication and strategic mission-setting to move the organization forward. Recently, our team got together to share some of the key lessons […]
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