My new post on the Mission Connected Blog, “What’s in Your Manual? Nonprofit Employee Handbooks“, summarizes general considerations for employee handbooks, details essential content and resources for creating a handbook, and highlights one important area your organization’s handbook might be missing.
My new post on the Mission Connected Blog, “Paying Attention to Turnover in the Nonprofit Sector“, takes a look at the prevalence of, causes of, and potential responses to the costly issue of employee turnover among nonprofit organizations.
My new post on the Mission Connected Blog, “A Look at Nonprofit IT Staffing“, considers current factors and trends in hiring information technology professionals, and offers advice for nonprofit employers as they address their IT staffing needs.
My new post on the Mission Connected Blog, “Development in Demand“, takes a look at the current challenges facing fundraising professionals and their employers, including the economic landscape, the profession’s changing skill requirements, and the need for organizations to make the most of their investment in development staff.
In my previous post on the Mission Connected Blog, I examined the first two of three basic phases in a nonprofit organizations’ human resources maturity and their implications for the design and effectiveness of key human resources processes. My new post, “Human Resources Maturity and the Three P’s, Part 2“, examines the third and final phase and outlines some questions that nonprofit managers and human resources professionals should ask about their own organization.
My new post on the Mission Connected Blog, “Human Resources Maturity and the Three P’s, Part 1“, takes a look at the first two of three basic phases in nonprofit organizations’ human resources maturity, each of which has implications for the design and effectiveness of key human resources processes. Later this week, part 2 will examine the third and final phase, and outline some questions that nonprofit managers and human resources professionals should ask about their own organization.
My new post on the Mission Connected Blog,“Salary Ranges, Part 1: Why Ranges?”, makes a case for the use of salary ranges by nonprofit organizations as a tool for ensuring equity and competitiveness in pay practices, linking pay to performance, communicating current and future opportunities to employees, and managing compensation costs. In Part 2, we’ll examine the construction of salary ranges and some of the considerations involved with their implementation and management.
My new post on the Mission Connected Blog,“The Power of Why”, stresses the importance of communicating to employees the context, importance, and relevance of their work in order to maximize the effectiveness of training and coaching and to increase employee motivation and productivity.
My new post on the Mission Connected Blog,“The Buck Stops Where?”, takes a look at the appropriate positioning of compensation decision-making in nonprofit organizations.
I am happy to announce that I am now a contributor to the Mission Connected Blog!
Mission Connected, which features topics of interest to job-seekers and employers in the nonprofit sector, is the blog of execSearches.com. ExecSearches.com’s job board has served the nonprofit, government, education and health sectors since 1999, helping to fill executive, mid-level and fundraising positions. ExecSearches.com’s goal is to be the most efficient, online source for connecting mission and talent.
My contributions to Mission Connected will focus on human resources and management issues facing nonprofit organizations. My first post is “Are Your Executive Compensation Bases Covered?” You can check it out here!
Done by People is the professional blog of Joe Brown, Principal and Founder of Slope Resources, LLC.
Slope Resources provides a range of human resources and organization management consulting services to nonprofit organizations of all types and sizes. More....
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