Organizational Excellence

More than ever, periods of audit exercises are now characterized as ‘panic moments’ in many organizations. The relationship between internal auditors and their fellow employees has been seared with fear and suspicion. Needless to say, this impacts on the quality of audit outcomes where employees do not trust the rationale…

Is there such even a thing? And does the expectation that it must be hard to have value stop some organizations from doing it whatsoever? — As someone who got her start in the nonprofit sector as a grant writer, I have almost always relied on annual work plans to provide critical strategic information that makes up the most of grant proposals. Except, that is, when they didn’t exist. In my 15-plus years of working with…

And why every nonprofit organization should have one. — Until recently, I didn’t know what a BHAG was — but I’ve wanted one (or something like it) for years now. Ever since I started going down the path of nonprofit excellence, I’ve searched for the right word, phrase or acronym (no doubt the nonprofit sector has a slew of…

And the power of planning to spark organizational excellence — I was almost five years into my career as a nonprofit fundraiser when I first began to understand the transformative power of a plan. To be specific, I am referring to an annual planning framework that is undertaken and used consistently throughout the organization. …

A straightforward framework to create org-wide clarity, shared goals, and results-oriented impact. — For many young organizations, including both nonprofit and startups, the desire to institute an annual planning process is sometimes thwarted by overwhelm and the false belief that it must be a complicated, time-intensive process. …

We have all heard the aphorisms about having the same amount of time in a day as all the greats did. Ben Franklin, Marie Curie, and Thomas Edison all had the same 24 hours as you and I have. …

Saying things have changed in the time of COVID-19 would be an understatement. Our home lives, and work environments are being forced to adapt quickly. And in doing so, a lot of our business processes are being condensed and our teams are becoming nimble. This is not necessarily a bad…

Create an open, mobile work space filled office, they said. It’ll be great, they said. Your people will collaborate and innovate at record levels, they said. According to a recent HBR article, when the firms switched to open offices, face-to-face interactions fell by 70%. As people today have vastly more…