Can we have our $6,000,000 back please. Or maybe some clean water or affordable housing #ElectionCanada #CanadaVotes #Election2021

A board of directors creating a strategic plan in isolation is a sure recipe for making a dust collecting binder. The current model many use for planning is broken. We need to shatter the artificial divides we have built around the process. #strategicplanning #nonprofit

Let’s Geek Out Over Strategic Planning!. Happening now in @clubhouse! clubhouse.com/room/xow03bYx

I'm discussing “Let’s Geek Out Over Strategic Planning!” with @KimberleyCanada and Nonprofit Problem Solver. Thursday, Aug 12 at 2:00 PM ADT in @clubhouse. Join us! clubhouse.com/event/mgn9qwEE

Tatiana Holifield: reward the customers who promote and share your material and work. One of the best uses of your marketing dollars. #breakshit

Katie Martell: Marketing and Advertising is the most powerful industry in them world. How will we use it to influence the world. Love it. #breakshit

Problems in not-for-profit board recruitment are more about the lack of meaningful work than the job appears too hard or too scary. #leadership #volunteers #volunteer #charity #recruitment

Many times it is a good thing, even necessary, when you discover you are not the popular person in the room. #Leaders #LeadershipMatters

Client asked me what should his board look like. I told him to start here: is your board 50% female and does it reflect the diversity of your community and those you serve. If you can get to that point the rest of the composition work is easy. #Governance #directors #equity

What would our workplaces look like if, instead of talking about our employees as our most important resource, we treated them as our organization, as that is what they are?

The greatest gift of charity is to help sustain someone before they become impoverished. #charity #fundraising #community

When did you’re welcome become no problem. Drives me crazy. #noproblem #yourewelcome

While we often work hard to avoid them meeting tangents can be a great thing. maxchauvin.com/wp-content-up… #facilitation #meetings

All the planning in the world is worthless if we do not know the first steps to take to implement the plans. #strategies #strategicplanning #leadership

Discipline: the ability to say no. Willpower: the ability to have just one.

Winston Churchill said: “Plans are of little importance but planning is essential.” Everyday current circumstances prove this. #planning #leadership

Reviewing several strategic plans today and one of the major problems in strategic planning is the process often doesn’t produce strategies, simply to do lists. Make sure process has a component about overall strategy, before setting key priorities. #strategy #strategicplanning