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Practical Leadership: A Balanced Approach

Jon Pratt & Jodi Sandfort June 4, 2009. Practical Leadership: A Balanced Approach. Flickr: Auntie P. 5 Challenges Nonprofit Leaders Need to Confront. Financing Structuring Engaging Governing Advocating. Three competing nonprofit organizational models. Enterprise Sub-contractor

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Practical Leadership: A Balanced Approach

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  1. Jon Pratt & Jodi Sandfort June 4, 2009 Practical Leadership:A Balanced Approach Flickr: Auntie P

  2. 5 Challenges Nonprofit Leaders Need to Confront • Financing • Structuring • Engaging • Governing • Advocating

  3. Three competing nonprofit organizational models • Enterprise • Sub-contractor • Network

  4. Enterprise: Nimble value • Seeker of financial opportunity • Market orientation • Proprietary • Financial goal setting • Empowered executive decision making • Entrepreneurial

  5. Sub-contractor: Loyal performer • Partner to government or 3rd party payors • Vertical accountability within a field • Task orientation • Clear expectations • Fidelity to past decisions • Compliance to funding conditions

  6. Network: Interactive responder • Independent voice and mobilizer • Oriented to constituency and democratic participation • Information generous • Sense of community ownership • Interactive decision making • Relational goal-setting

  7. Three competing nonprofit organizational models • Enterprise • Sub-contractor • Network

  8. Enterprise

  9. Sub-contractor

  10. Sub-contractor

  11. Sub-contractor

  12. Network

  13. Enterprise Network Sub-contractor

  14. Enterprise Network Sub-contractor

  15. Enterprise Network Sub-contractor

  16. Enterprise Network Sub-contractor

  17. Enterprise Network Sub-contractor

  18. 5 Challenges Nonprofit Leaders Need to Confront • Financing • Structuring • Engaging • Governing • Advocating

  19. Financing: How are resources assembled?

  20. Structuring:How do we organize ourselves?

  21. Governing: Where does board attention lie?

  22. Discuss in Groups of Three… • How have you seen this tension play out in your organization? • Among staff? • Among staff and board? • With funders? • How are these conflicts resolved? • What could you do if you change perspective?

  23. Engaging: How do we get input?

  24. Advocating: How is the agenda set?

  25. Leadership: Seeing with anew perspective Flickr: Juan Eduardo Donoso Flickr: Frankz Flickr: Auntie P

  26. Practical Leadership:A Balanced Approach Jon Pratt Jodi Sandfort June 4, 2009

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