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Unlocking Corporate Social Responsibility: 10 Impactful Ways to Give Back as a Business Owner

Strategy Driven

Encourage Employee Volunteerism While helping nonprofits, you can raise awareness within your organization and encourage your employees to volunteer in partner charities. First, it will allow you to further establish your image as a socially responsible organization at all levels and enrich the curriculum vitae of your employees.

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Time to Review the Reputation of Team Building Activities

HR Digest

We’d be lying if we said companies loved them either as the process of organizing and scheduling team activities for work can be quite laborious. However, time and again, organizations are reminded of the benefits of investing in the engagement levels and efficiency of their human resource. What’s not to like?

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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

Their business model is unique and there are so many lessons for our businesses and organizations from their story. As ill prepared as I was, my passion for creative communication and intercultural exchange gave me a unique basis for becoming a manager and running what is now a 70 person organization in only 3 years.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. World leading researcher on the impact of leadership in organizations. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez – Author of the best-selling book: The Focused Organization, Winner of the 2017 Thinkers50 Award for ‘Ideas into Practice’.

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What the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Reach Its Full Potential

Harvard Business Review

It has fingers that reach into the most neglected corners of society, forearms that lead large national chapter and affiliate organizations, legs made up of the nation’s foundations and massive individual donor base that fund it and help it to move. The nonprofit sector has limbs. But it doesn’t have a brain.

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How to Create an Effective Non-Profit Mission Statement

Harvard Business Review

Furthermore, many nonprofit managers do not instill the discipline in their organizations to use the mission on a regular basis as a tool to make decisions and achieve goals. A well-crafted mission statement allows an NGO to operate with focus and discipline. An effective strategy provides competitive advantage.

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Why Top-Down Management Doesn’t Work in the Fight Against Ebola

Harvard Business Review

Obama reportedly felt the situation called for someone who could set priorities and help government agencies and private sector organizations of all kinds to collaborate and innovate. And so organizations around the world have to team up to create new strategies to defeat an invisible enemy. Teaming in NGO s.