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Keeping the Dream Team: Unleashing the Power of Employee Retention in Nonprofits

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

So, What is the Solution to Employee Retention? Psychological contracts are the unwritten expectations and obligations between employers and employees. Nonprofits can create strong psychological contracts by aligning organizational values with staff passions.

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Questions to ask to advance the donor’s hero story

iMarketSmart

In the universal hero story (monomyth), a guiding sage often kicks off the hero’s journey. Tell me about your journey since you graduated from the university.”[25] Victory: Defining an organizational victory. Organizational change victory. “If If you could change anything to better [this charity], what would it be?”[103]

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Making Economic Democracy Work: How to Practice Shared Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

By naming what is wrong, it becomes possible to begin a journey through organizational change. Once a problem is identified, the first necessary phase of change involves developing new alternatives. If drawn into these patterns, the liberatory organizational change the group was aiming for becomes fragile and tenuous.