Tip #1024: How Organizations Can Stop Losing New Hires (and Volunteers)
The New Hire Experience Imagine that you’re a new hire (or volunteer). You come to your first day without knowing where to go or who
Helping Nonprofits Relieve Tension Between Their Boards and Their Executive Directors
When executive directors and their boards of directors work together smoothly, everyone involved with the nonprofit benefits
Laurel and Associates, Ltd. can help you build managerial, employee development and technical skills through the design and delivery of participatory classroom and virtual training programs. We also provide train-the-trainer programs that will teach your trainers how to effectively design and facilitate high quality training programs.
Since 75% of employees leave their jobs voluntarily because of a poor manager, it’s a good idea to recognize the warning signs that a manager needs to learn better management and interpersonal communication skills. Otherwise, your nonprofit organization cannot ensure continued growth, efficiency, and adaptability.
Here are eight urgent signals that a manager is not performing well:
Each of these eight indicators is an urgent signal that managers are not performing well and need better management and interpersonal communication skills. Addressing these signals through management training can enhance a nonprofit organization’s performance. An investment in management training is an investment in the current and future success of your nonprofit.
Action: To learn more, contact Deborah Laurel at 608-219-3594.
Middle managers are the backbone of business. It’s up to them to translate policies and procedures and to manage the employee and volunteer experience to ensure that programs achieve their goals and clients’ needs are met.
It happens every day. An employee who excels at their job is tapped to start training other employees on their topic of expertise. This is despite the fact that the individual has never been trained as a trainer. I call this an accidental trainer.
The problem is that the accidental trainer:
My name is Deborah Laurel and I’m the President of Laurel and Associates, Ltd.
I have designed and facilitated training programs for public, private and nonprofit agencies, as well as for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the United States Agency for International Development for the past 40 years. I have also trained and certified over 1000 trainers in the United States, Jordan, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, UAE, and Croatia in how to design, facilitate, and evaluate participant-centered, skill-building training programs.
The New Hire Experience Imagine that you’re a new hire (or volunteer). You come to your first day without knowing where to go or who
Even if you believe in a nonprofit’s mission and want to make a difference, there are a number of considerations you would be wise to
I took the hotel shuttle to the airport and luckily there was a guy there who knew where I had to go and what I
Thank you Deb for all the great learning!!!
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