With funding and operational pressures mounting, many nonprofit leaders are navigating sensitive conversations about how to move forward. Engaging board and staff leaders effectively can strengthen decision-making, but a lack of financial skills or shared vocabulary can stall out these discussions before they even start. As a nonprofit leader, how do you bring everyone to the table productively?
Join Erin Manske, PMP, Strategy Consultant, to brush up on key financial concepts and explore facilitation techniques to make these conversations easier. Drawing on her own perspective as both a nonprofit board member and an executive advisor, Erin will share practical insights to help you:
- Identify common misperceptions and knowledge gaps that prevent board and leaders from engaging fully in strategic decisions
- Share the right financial insights to help your team assess organizational health and weigh strategic choices
- Learn communication strategies to build a culture of shared decision-making between you, your staff, and your board
- Use Spectrum’s Organizational Model, a simple framework illustrating the relationship between impact, finances, and operations, to support strategic discussions