by Tom Okarma | Feb 9, 2016 | Blog, Leadership
Discover the 25 Critical Factors that will help ensure your long-term success. Serving others through nonprofit work often involves helping people in immediate need, but that doesn’t mean leaders can ignore the future. In fact, focusing on today only, can be a huge...
by Tom Okarma | Jan 27, 2016 | Blog, Board Development, Featured, Leadership
How can you make the first board meeting of the year effective, engaging, and use it to set the stage for a great year? In a recent article we discussed expectations for your new board. If you missed that post, you can check it out here. It will set the stage for...
by Tom Okarma | Jan 13, 2016 | Blog, Board Development, Governance, Leadership
How to get the most out of your non profit board of directors. Now that the new year has begun, the makeup of many non profit board of directors may look quite a bit different from last year. Yours is probably no exception. Some experienced and high value board...
by Tom Okarma | Jan 5, 2016 | Blog, Board Development, Leadership
This is the third and final chapter in a recent series about removing nonprofit board members who no longer fit the future needs of the organization. The first two articles offered suggestions on how to remove board members — How to Deal with Difficult Board Members,...
by Tom Okarma | Dec 15, 2015 | Board Development, Leadership
10 Steps to Follow to Make Your Nonprofit Board Better Last week we discussed how to deal with a previously high-value nonprofit board member who has become difficult, argumentative, and even divisive over time. We reviewed approaches you might take to address the...
