Both fundraising and leading a team can be challenging. Here are some pointers for managing both your portfolio and your staff.
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3 Focus Areas to Develop Self-Sufficient, Productive Managers
Performing well as a sole contributor doesn’t necessarily predict great performance as a manager. Here’s how organizations can build these managers’ capacity to lead so they can transition responsibility to their direct reports and free themselves up for more critical tasks.
Read MoreThe Case of the Major Gifts Fundraising Employee Who Didn’t Fit
A sad situation I observe very frequently is a major gifts manager whose primary skill set is major gifts but finds him- or herself in a management position where the up-line managers, even the CEO, are critical of his or her “lack of management ability.”
Read MoreManaging Up: 7 Tips to Get What You Need From Your Manager
We believe that managers actually need to manage their major-gifts officers. Sadly, the state of management in the nonprofit sector is sorely lacking. It’s just very rare to come across a good manager who really knows how to develop people.
Read More25 Tips for Managing a Direct Report
Put yourself in the other person’s shoes, and you may enhance your perception and improve your skills as a manager!
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