Nonprofit Mastermind Podcast

In this week’s episode, I’m getting to the root of what’s a play with a truly high-impact nonprofit board. How to answer perennial questions like: How should my board be working together? What “should” my board be doing? How do I know if they’re a “good board”?

The answer is not what people necessarily always think. It’s not about having wealthy people on your board, or people who know “the right people.” It’s deeper than that. It’s about a special form of trust that every single high-functioning team has. 

In this episode, I'll talk about: 

• How high-impact boards have a secret sauce 
• How truly connected and engaged board members are the organization’s fiercest cheerleaders, the mission’s most vocal ambassadors, and the ED’s best thought partners.
• The 4 guiding questions to ask in order to get (and keep) your board on the right track 

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In this week’s episode, I’m talking about nonprofit problem-solving and root causes.  We’ve all experienced challenges in our organizations. It can be hard to get to the actual root of the problem and figure out what’s causing it, much less determine how to resolve it. 

In this episode, you’ll learn: 

• The 10 core building blocks of organizational design 
• How to use organizational design to make sure you spend time and energy addressing the right things when solving problems 
• How to build a culture of inquiry to make problem-solving smooth and painless 

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In this week’s episode, I’m finishing my new year series about setting intentions to guide your leadership and growth in the new year. In this episode, I’m sharing two final intentions to guide your year: 

Intention #3: Let Form Follow Function

Intention # 4: Master Your Mindset 

In this episode, you’ll learn: 

• How to align your board & team structure with your purpose 
• The “right” structure for your board is the one that’s aligned with your purpose 
• Why your mindset is critical to your leadership
• How and why to watch out for mindset gremlins 

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In this week’s episode, I’m continuing my new year series about setting intentions to guide your leadership and growth in the new year. Goals are important, but I argue that intentions are perhaps even more foundational and important. While your goals are a commitment to an outcome, your intentions are a commitment to a process - they are an orientation to your work: How you want to approach your leadership, actions, and decisions. 

The second intention that you should set in 2023 is to leverage your time. 

In this episode, you will learn: 

• What it means to leverage your time
• The definition and importance of of “high leverage” activities 
• Two strategies for finding time for visioning, thought leadership, and relationship building. 

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RESOURCES MENTIONED
One Of The Most Powerful (& Underused!) Strategies For Reclaiming Your Time For "Real" Work

How To Actually Operationalize Your Plan For Organizational Growth

Nonprofit Leadership Resource Hub ==> richiebabbage.com/nonprofitresourcehub

Supports for Automation

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In this week’s episode, I’m kicking off my new year series about setting intentions as a way to guide your leadership and growth in the new year. Goals are important, but I argue that intentions are often over looked and in some ways more foundational. 

While your goals are a commitment to an outcome, your intentions are a commitment to a process - they are an orientation to your work: How you want to approach your leadership, actions and decisions. 

One of the most important intentions you can set is to adopt a relationship orientation. 

In this episode, you will learn: 

• What it means to set powerful intentions for your organization, 
• The centrality of relationships and network expansion in fueling your growth, 
• Two strategies for continually expanding your organizational relationships.  

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Resources Mentioned

Podcast episode about Leveraged Networks

Access the full toolkit inside the Nonprofit Leadership Resource Hub 

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Want to work together?

Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations with $1M+ budgets that are ready to design for impact sustained at scale.  

Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board!   

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In this week’s episode, I’m wrapping up my short series on the architecture of a powerful annual strategic plan. I’m focusing on goal setting - a simple framework for setting goals that will serve as the powerful link between your vision for impact and what you actually do every month and week and day. 

When you’re bogged down by the messiness of running your organization, managing your team, working with your board, and all of the other things that you need to get done as a nonprofit leader, you want to really know that the activities you’re spending money and time on - the tasks you’re doing, etc. - are directly linked to - and will lead to - the impact you care most about. 

The way to do that is to make sure that your goals are grounded in your priorities. And we talked last time about making sure that the priorities are grounded in your vision. That’s the throughline. 

In this episode, you will learn: 

• The key elements of a well architected annual strategic plan 
• The importance of setting meaningful goals 
• How to define a really effective goal 
• Questions to ask to identify 3 year and 1 year goals for your organization

Links Referenced

Asset Mapping Guide

Fund Your Strategic Vision 

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Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board!   

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In this week’s episode, I’m continuing my short series on the architecture of a powerful strategic plan by zeroing in on the why, what, and how of strategic priorities.  
In this episode, you will learn: 

• Why it’s so important that you create strategic priorities to guide your planning process
• What makes priorities strategic 
• How to identify strategic priorities for your own organization 

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Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board!   

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In this week’s episode, I’m starting a short series on the architecture of a powerful strategic plan. Why it’s so important to have an effective plan, and how to build that plan from the ground up, starting with having a clear and compelling strategic vision. 

In this episode, you will learn: 

• The elements of an effective strategic plan 
• The difference between vision and strategy 
• The dangers of not having a clear and compelling vision of your organization's future, and how to know if you're holding yourself back from crafting your vision 
• The four sets of questions to ask when creating your vision map   

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Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board!   

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In this week’s episode, I talk about a powerful strategy for getting out of the weeds in your organization: The CEO Day (also known as the personal leadership retreat).
So often we label taking time for big-picture thinking as a "nice to have." But it’s actually a must have: We need to make time for our CEO -level work just as we make time for anything else that’s critical if we want the organization to grow and be sustainable. 

In this episode, you will learn: 

• The importance of scheduling CEO Days into your annual calendar 
• How to structure and plan for your CEO Day 
• The 5 questions around which you should organization your CEO Day 

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Links Mentioned
Newsletter: How To Keep Learning As A Leader

A Fun (& Powerful) Cultivation and Network Expansion Activity

How To Create A 2022 Vision Map For Your Organization

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Want to work together?

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Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board!   

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In this week’s episode, I’m highlighting one common - and dangerous - challenge that may be hiding in plain sight in your organization. Like a shape-shifting snake in the grass, it can hold us back and we don’t even recognize that it’s happening. So I’m highlighting some of the ways that it shows up so that you can spot the snake and build systems to stop it once and for all. 

In this episode, you will learn: 

• The many variations on a common challenge that may be sneaking into your organization. 
• The importance of calibrating planning and action.
• How to design your organization’s “operating system” to help you keep moving forward in the face of uncertainty. 

Links Mentioned

• Brain Trust Toolkit, inside the Nonprofit Leadership Resource Hub

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Want to work together?

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Budget under $1M? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board!   

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