As we're coming right up on the close of 2025, I think it's always important to do a review and take stock of the year that's just gone by. And it might be more important than ever in this particular year, given what a wild ride it's been.

There's a lot of different ways you can come at a year-end review, and you probably already have a process in place in your organization. But I'd like to call out something specific that I think is especially important at the close of 2025. And that's to take stock of your wins. Particularly the kinds of wins that would easily be overlooked otherwise. 

For some Nonprofit leaders, that feels like a stretch right there. How do you clock a win in completely chaotic and abnormal times? Our normal definition of wins may or may not apply. For some they will. For others, it's going to look a little different this year. 

It would be pretty easy to just sort of heave a sigh of relief and say, thank God we survived this year. But that would be selling yourself massively short. 

Here's the thing. No matter how you're feeling about the year and how happy you may be that it is almost over, there were wins. If you had some ginormous obvious wins, of course you are celebrating them. I celebrate with you.

But I also hope you'll use the questions I’m posing to dig into some of the wins that maybe aren't as obvious, but that are every bit as important as the great big showy ones.

In this episode, we share:

• The five categories of wins we might otherwise overlook, that matter more than we know
• Questions to help you investigate what allowed you to see opportunity in the midst of crisis and chaos
• How to uncover the organizational culture factors that caused some of your wins
• Key questions to help you recognize your team members for their roles in the wins
• The two hardest questions for most Nonprofit leaders to answer, that are a key to a successful 2026

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