Can you align people toward a coherent (yet fuzzy) strategic direction by discussing fairness and exploring the underlying judgements about what is or feels like the “right” decision?

We explore that question in this post.

This blurb provides the background for an approach to developing the “capacity to collaborate” among Board members in the not-for-profit and social sector.

Rather than knowing stuff or doing stuff, we look at the role that leaders play in fostering an environment that helps people collaborate amid complexity.

Meetings: where minutes are taken and hours are lost!

This is a discussion of how to foster collaboration in meetings that require such a dynamic.

Collaboration under complexity is tough. Everyone, including your newest Board members, can play a vital role in helping everyone to work together more effectively.

This is a discussion of the role of trust and how to manage it in the important and intimate relationship between a Board Chair and the Executive Leader of a not-for-profit or mission-driven organization. We explore lack of trust, as well as “too much of a good thing.”

Managing risk involves dealing with the dual threat of “what if?” and “I told you so.” Strategy and Governance is serious business, but managing these emotion-laden discussions and decisions needs all the help it can get.

Board Chairs and Executive Leaders play a critical role in engaging in discussions to focus the right kind of fear and doubt with regard to managing strategic risk.

Developing and following strategy involve a series of conversations and decisions. In a not-for-profit setting, interactions between the CEO and Board Chair will have a massive impact on the effectiveness of organizational efforts.

We are talking about this relationship online and in-person.

If you cancelled a DEI program that was not effective in the first place… is that a bad thing?

Here is a discussion on attempts to make improvements to the complex and nuanced world of workplace culture and what it entails.

What do we mean when we “agree to disagree” with each other?