All Resources - Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) Leadership for Results. The first step in developing leadership to advance large-scale social change is clearly defining the intended results.
Talent Matters Talent Matters is a blog series exploring how nonprofit leaders have achieved real-world results through an emphasis on talent. For funders trying to create large-scale social change—whether it’s making sure all children in a city can succeed or improving the environment—developing leaders who can clearly define and manage toward results is an essential first step in getting the best possible return on investment. All too often, in the rush to get started on an initiative leaders overlook the importance of defining and naming the result they seek. Failing to do so can undermine their efforts from the beginning. Naming a result means stating clearly what success looks like—giving partners, grantees, and others an aspirational target against which they can align their leadership. The Annie E. How much are we doing? See more from Talent Matters. Talent Matters. Nonprofit Management Nonprofits and other social sector organizations are successful—or not—because of their people.
We have overlooked this truth for years, at the expense of the talent within our organizations and the missions we aim to achieve. Individuals leading and working at social organizations should be as motivated, valued, and effective as anyone else in the workforce. With a focus on talent, the social sector can better meet its full potential to solve society’s challenges. Leading organizations engaged in social sector capacity-building have come together in recent years to discuss how to make talent a bigger priority.
In addition, Linda Wood of the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. World Café on Women and Leadership. SNA%20and%20Leadership%20Networks%20-%20LQ. 2013 Webinar: First Relationships, Then Results: A New Paradigm for Leadership Development. Presenter: Kimberly Haskins and Stefan Lanfer of the Barr FoundationTopic: First Relationships, Then Results: A New Paradigm for Leadership DevelopmentDate: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PDT This webinar explores the idea that leaders can be rejuvenated and inspired and great collaborations sparked by the same thing – social capital. · After years of leading social-sector organizations in an environment where competition is more the norm than collaboration, many gifted leaders are near burnout, unable to maximize their individual or collective gifts.
Since 2005, the Barr Fellowship has been changing that in Boston – through an investment in personal growth and connections among social change leaders. Recently profiled in the Foundation Review (and before that, in a Stanford Social Innovation Review Case study in May, 2012), the Barr Fellowship is proving to be a powerful force for transformation of individual leaders, their organizations, and their city. Slides: Recording: ( New List. Broadcast Yourself. Network Leadership. May/09/12//Curtis Ogden//Featured, Networks As I prepare to do a couple of trainings for leadership in multi-stakeholder networks in the New England region (focus being on the skills of facilitation, process design, and managing decision-making), I intend to frame our conversations with some exploration of the differences between traditional organizational leadership and what is required to steward networks towards positive impact.
I begin with the presumption that network form and function are chosen strategically for the ability to accomplish something that could not be done at all or as well through other approaches. Whether trying to develop a food system to eliminate food insecurity or change an educational system to yield more equitable opportunities and outcomes, the attraction to a network approach is likely due to a desire for some combination of the following: Comments [8]//Share This//Permalink// Like [13]
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