by Caroline T Robertson | Dec 23, 2019 | Executive Leadership
Hi dee hi Ridgers! If you are like me, you might be in a bit of shock that it really is mid-December and we really are at the end of a decade. The start of this decade was the start of my time at BRI! Do you know what that means? It means in 2020, 10 years after I...
by Grace-Anne Alfiero | Apr 14, 2019 | Community, Executive Leadership, Governance, Leadership
Just like no one truly owns a beautiful forest and no one truly owns a coral reef, nonprofit organizations were not set up to be owned by any one individual. Sole ownership of a tax-exempt entity is counter-intuitive and the antithesis of the sectors’ original...
by Grace-Anne Alfiero | Sep 13, 2018 | Business, Community, Executive Leadership, Leadership, Leadership Parallels With History
Reposted from Arts In Action Blog Post from 9/9/18: This week I was on a Skype call with a colleague who lives overseas and we were discussing the challenges of building an effective international work team. Knee-deep into our chat, I stated: “it’s almost...
by Grace-Anne Alfiero | Jan 17, 2018 | Business, Community, Executive Leadership, Leadership
repost from www.artsinactionllc.com Are you burning bridges without even knowing it? Are you confused sometimes when you get a less than enthusiastic reply from a donor, grant funder, supervisor, colleague, direct report or a vendor? Have projects that you thought...
by Sara Faircloth | Nov 30, 2017 | Community, Executive Leadership, Leadership, Work/Life Balance
In 1992, I became single for good. That was a good decision for me, but it came at a price. One cannot live as cheaply as two. That is just a cold, hard economic fact. One of the implications of my singlehood and single-income has been that putting off retirement...
by Patrick Jinks | Jun 20, 2017 | Business, Employee Engagement, Executive Leadership, Leadership
Some of my fellow Forbes Coaches and I offer quick tips on giving feedback to people. Grace-Anne suggested I share it here on the Front Porch, so here ya go! Click HERE for the Forbes article.
