Opportunity is everywhere. But too often, we miss those opportunities because we didn't know about them at all, or we didn't find out about them in time to capitalize on them.

The truth is most nonprofit CEOs are pretty good at constantly scanning for opportunities. And your opportunity radar is always switched on even when you're not at work. But if there are just one or two people in your organization who are doing this. By definition, you're going to miss a lot.

What if you could expand your radar by five or 10 times or more? How many more opportunities would come to your attention? And how many more could you take advantage of if you could just do that? 

There's a simple and obvious way to make that happen, which is to develop more skilled opportunity scanners within your team. If you're a leader who scans for opportunities all the time, and who's always evaluating them in your mind. You've probably advanced to the point where most of that is just intuitive. But the reality is, it's a significant skillset. And it can be taught.

In this episode, we share:

• Why untrained team members miss about 95% of the opportunities they encounter
• The four key categories of opportunity your team should learn to scan for
• Three essential screening questions to teach your team to assess whether to bring the opportunity to the Leadership Team
• How to create simple, concrete and structured learning opportunities for your team to build their skills
• The four main tasks leaders should focus on to successfully teach and coach your team to scan for and analyze opportunities
• The most common mistakes leaders make when building their opportunity generating team, and how to avoid them

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