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How Online Communities Help Teams Build a Culture of Collaboration

Higher Logic

According to the Harvard Business Review , before technology made it possible for companies and organizations to connect with large groups of colleagues and stakeholders anywhere in the world in real time, the average team size was around 20 people. Think of a soccer team. Guidelines. How is it different than teamwork?

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From Wishlist to Winning Bids: How to Procure Auction Items

NXUnite

Start by laying out some guidelines for your procurement process. Collaborate with your event planning team to answer these questions: When will the auction happen? Next, recruit a procurement team. Step 2: Review your donor data. Step 2: Review your donor data. Step 1: Lay out a procurement plan and timeline.

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Shifting from Deadline Driven to Guideline Driven

Mariner Management

The bonus is expanding your “team”. Review your volunteers’ training/resource needs, including cataloging current materials and resources. The post Shifting from Deadline Driven to Guideline Driven appeared first on Mariner Marketing & Management, LLC. Looking to build a portal? Create a content outline and portal map.

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7 essentials for your association’s online community strategy

Nimble AMS

Online community team. Decide who to include on your online community team and define their roles and responsibilities. The team should include a mix of staff from across your organization. Regularly review metrics to find opportunities for improvement?? Regularly review metrics to find opportunities for improvement?? .

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Crisis Grantmaking: How to Manage and Award Funds Quickly

NXUnite

Additionally, you can create abbreviated versions of your standard application form for times of crisis and mark them for expedited review. Grants Management allows you to set up action plans defining the necessary steps and documents that anyone reviewing applications must complete. Tools that standardize due diligence tasks.

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Funding Your Mission: 4 Nonprofit Financial Management Tips

NXUnite

Your team likely plans and launches multiple fundraisers throughout each year to bring in enough revenue to fund the various initiatives associated with furthering your mission. Treat this rule as a guideline to help you allocate more funding toward your mission and cut administrative and fundraising costs where possible.

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Think Check-Ins, Not Performance Reviews

Associations Now

Annual performance reviews are dead. Last year Harvard Business Review highlighted Deloitte’s efforts to adopt a check-in format, which involved asking team leaders to hold weekly check-ins with employees. We don’t have time to slam on the breaks midway through the race to check all the systems in a lengthy review.

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