Welcome to Hardy Smith’s blog, where he shares experience and insight learned through decades in the corporate world and advocating on behalf of nonprofits and associations across America.
Hardy’s mission is to help maximize the performance of nonprofits and associations and their essential leadership teams.
If you’re seeking to triumph over communication challenges, bring meaningful and manageable solutions to, and realize measurable results of your organization, this blog will give you more than ideas — it will maximize your team’s performance like never before.
Would you like to reach Hall of Fame level of success? Then you will want to follow the right path. In my life I have been lucky enough to receive invaluable leadership lessons from personal and professional relationships with five individuals who have achieved hall of fame level recognition in their professions.
Leaders are looking for new ideas and solutions to difficult challenges. However, identifying innovative answers can be challenging. Just telling an organization to solve its problems by thinking outside the box isn’t especially helpful. What does that really mean?
During the holiday season and throughout the rest of the year, should you feel negativity creeping in as you take your time to help others, remember that it’s not about you. It’s about the people who are benefiting from the good deeds you are performing.
Recruiting the right board members is critical to a nonprofit’s success. However finding prospects who are a good match is difficult for many organizations.
Nonprofit leaders know that collaboration can be beneficial. When they decide to form a cooperative working relationship with another organization (or other organizations), they can discover extraordinary innovations to conquer shared challenges.
Every day dedicated nonprofit professionals are working to help those who have suffered misfortune, aiding victims in need of care, and finding solutions to someone else’s problems.
Volunteers who sign up for involvement in a nonprofit or an association are anticipating a positive experience.
Individuals’ reactions to recognition of their volunteer activity depends on characteristics associated with their personality types.
Different personalities naturally respond in different ways. Therefore, depending on the individual, your attempt to motivate could have the opposite effect.
Recognizing the difference between difficult and different can be a tremendous benefit for your organization. Follow these tips to help make the different board member a valuable part of your board.
In addition to being tasked with providing leadership during a time of major change, you are also confronted with the demands of delivering results in a difficult economy.
These two circumstances can cause a lot of frustration.
Would you like to reach Hall of Fame level of success? Then you will want to follow the right path. In my life I have been lucky enough to receive invaluable leadership lessons from personal and professional relationships with five individuals who have achieved hall of fame level recognition in their professions.
Leaders are looking for new ideas and solutions to difficult challenges. However, identifying innovative answers can be challenging. Just telling an organization to solve its problems by thinking outside the box isn’t especially helpful. What does that really mean?
During the holiday season and throughout the rest of the year, should you feel negativity creeping in as you take your time to help others, remember that it’s not about you. It’s about the people who are benefiting from the good deeds you are performing.
Recruiting the right board members is critical to a nonprofit’s success. However finding prospects who are a good match is difficult for many organizations.
Nonprofit leaders know that collaboration can be beneficial. When they decide to form a cooperative working relationship with another organization (or other organizations), they can discover extraordinary innovations to conquer shared challenges.
Every day dedicated nonprofit professionals are working to help those who have suffered misfortune, aiding victims in need of care, and finding solutions to someone else’s problems.
Volunteers who sign up for involvement in a nonprofit or an association are anticipating a positive experience.
Individuals’ reactions to recognition of their volunteer activity depends on characteristics associated with their personality types.
Different personalities naturally respond in different ways. Therefore, depending on the individual, your attempt to motivate could have the opposite effect.
Recognizing the difference between difficult and different can be a tremendous benefit for your organization. Follow these tips to help make the different board member a valuable part of your board.
In addition to being tasked with providing leadership during a time of major change, you are also confronted with the demands of delivering results in a difficult economy.
These two circumstances can cause a lot of frustration.
