by Jamie Notter | Aug 20, 2013 | Leadership, Managing People
I just finished reading the new white paper that Elizabeth Engel and Peggy Hoffman have put out about “mission-driven volunteers,” and it’s fabulous. The paper makes a compelling case why the current model for volunteering in most associations is...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 19, 2013 | Culture
A few months ago I gathered a little bit of data from readers (and webinar attendees) about organizational cultures. My hypothesis was that most organizations didn’t do culture very well. Anecdotally, I hear a lot of people complain about their cultures. They...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 16, 2013 | Books and Reading, Culture, Humanize, Inclusion and Diversity
In Monday’s post, I reflected about the ASAE Annual Meeting and how some of the sub-communities seemed to be operating in separate circles. My underlying concern in that post is that we’re eliminating a critical component in our broader community by...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 14, 2013 | Conflict, Managing People
Have you ever asked yourself that question? Or have you simply taken it all for granted? Why do we have them in our organizations? What’s their purpose? What value do they bring to the organization? Those aren’t purely rhetorical questions. I’m not...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 13, 2013 | Change, Humanize, Social Media
IBM is a leader in social business, and I like how their latest report frames the opportunities for companies who want to go in this direction. Based on their research, companies that are doing this are using social business to do three things: Create valued customer...
