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Reproduced with the permission of choice Magazine, www.choice-online.com Customized, easy-to-use eCommerce tools & training � �� Visit us online at www.practicepaysolutions.com or call 1-800-326-9897 for a consultation impact • Founder’s Syndrome. Nonprofits are small businesses and share the same isolation and undercapitalization issues as other small businesses. Yet the lack of a profit motive keeps many leaders from letting go of familiar routines and relationships in favor of a clear strategy or vision. • Various Stakeholders. Nonprofit leaders manage several complex and demanding relationships. Leaders must make sure their board is engaged, their funders know who they are, their staff is focused and producing and their vendors paid. Without a profit motive, relationships to stakeholders can be the source of great stress. Something as ridiculous as waiting three months to get board approval for a new fax machine may seem absurd and counterproductive in the private sector, but can be quite common in the nonprofit sector. • Mission Creep. When leading a values-based business like a nonprofit, leaders can stray away from the original purpose. The funding environment can be very lean and leaders may elect to expand their scope of work simply because the opportunity exists. Nonprofits are driven to demonstrate impact and if they begin to work outside their core mission, they risk spreading themselves too thin and losing credibility with their funders and their constituents. • Inconsistent Funding. Nonprofit funding is often made up of many small grants; each funder creates its own unique funding categories, criteria, processes and payment schedule. Nonprofits, on the other hand, must continue to operate with little confidence of when and how much money may be coming into the organization – a cash flow challenge that plagues even the best nonprofits. 3 Identifying Needs A recent study on coaching and consulting revealed the following: ✔ Coaching and consulting together is most effective. A consultant qualified to deliver both one-on-one executive coaching with organizational consulting is well positioned to effectively assist nonprofits. Executive coaching is more useful when informed by a comprehensive understanding of the needs and challenges of a particular organization. In addition, a consultant-coach may be better equipped to clarify the roles and expectations of the consultant, staff and the board. ✔ Mid-sized organizations benefit most. Organizations that have moved beyond adolescence seem to be more ready to receive consulting or coaching intervention. Smaller organizations in an early lifecycle stage of development tend to focus on basic management skills and do not achieve transformational change. Mid-sized organizations with senior leadership positions are better able to undertake organizational change, such as shifting the executive director’s role to a more external focus and establishing a structure of shared leadership with senior staff and the board. ✔ Coaching can help founders of mid-sized groups to let go. In organizations with fewer people, senior staff were often unavailable to assume some of the executive director’s day-to-day organizational opera- Reproduced with the permission of choice Magazine, www.choice-online.com
Reproduced with the permission of choice Magazine, www.choice-online.com tions and management responsibilities. Midcareer executive directors (with about 10 to 20 years of professional nonprofit experience) tended to embrace and experience change more easily than grantees later in their careers, especially those nearing retirement. Coaching and consulting were particularly timely for first-time executive directors and those who were promoted to this position from within their organizations. ✔ Coaches can help leaders make sense of a complex organizational situation. Coaches helped nonprofit leaders enhance their awareness of assumptions and helped to separate what is within their control and responsibility, as well as what is innate in the nonprofit system. choice services Center for Right Relationship phone: (866) 435-5939 USA email: info@centerforrightrelationship.com www.CenterForRightRelationship.com Frame of Mind Coaching phone: (416) 747-6900 Canada www.frameofmindcoaching.com MHS Inc. – Emotional Intelligence phone: (800) 456-3003 Canada email: Leiki.luud@mhs.com www.mhs.com/ei inviteCHANGE (formerly ACT) phone: (425) 778-3505 USA email: bev@coachtraining.com www.coachtraining.com choice services provides resources and services from choice Magazine advertisers and sponsors. For a listing consideration, please submit your item to: advertising@choice-online.com and indicate “choice services” in the subject line. (Send corrections or updates to the same address.) Positioning To Nonprofits Here is one approach if you are considering working within the nonprofit sector: ✔ Join a nonprofit association or begin to network among nonprofit leaders. ✔ Offer a free training or offer pro bono assistance. ✔ When you secure an engagement, begin by consulting but introduce coaching by utilizing coaching language and methodology in your work. ✔ Demonstrate the difference between traditional consulting and your unique approach by moving from an abstract plan to one more focused on the execution of change rather than a prescription for change. Coaching Organizations International Coach Federation (ICF) phone: (888) 423-3131 USA email: icfoffice@coachfederation.org www.coachfederation.org Coach Training and Development Dream University phone: (415) 381-5564 USA www.dreamuniversity.com Resources and Services choice-coach phone: (416) 925-6643 Canada email: garry@choice-coach.com www.choice-coach.com The Coaches Console phone: (540) 314-8005 USA email: kate@coachesconsole.com www.CoachesConsole.com Coaching Into Greatness The Abundance Intelligence Institute® phone: (413) 782-2394 USA email: kim@coachingintogreatness.com www.coachingintogreatness.com Coaching Toys Inc. phone: (612) 822-8720 USA email: info@coachingtoys.com www.coachingtoys.com ✔ Leave the engagement with a plan to return. Too often real change cannot occur because there is not an implementation plan over a longer period of time. Though the nonprofit sector may present unique challenges, with preparation and persistence, helping the nonprofit create a meaningful impact will be worth the time and effort. • 1 Nonprofit Contribution to GDP Enormous Released: 9/25/2007 5:40 PM EDT Source: Johns Hopkins University 2 Nonprofit Career Guide, Fieldstone Alliance, http://www.nonprofitcareerguide. org/fact_sheet-scope.php 3 Out of Philanthropy’s Funding Maze, June 2008 REDF VOLUME 8 NUMBER 2 impact The Comeback Coach email: info@comebackcoach.com Compass Life and Business Designs Phone: (866) 341-8618 USA Email: customerservice@mylifecompass.com www.mylifecompass.com/choice Points of You Phone: +972-9-7677476 Isreal Email: feel@thecoachingame.com www.thecoachingame.com The International Journal of Coaching in Organizations, a publication of Professional Coaching Publications, Inc. phone: (708) 771-9176 USA email: john@ijco.info www.ijco.info, www.pcpionline.com The Library of Professional Coaching phone: (416) 925-6643 USA email: owners@thelibraryofprofessionalcoaching.com www.LibraryOfProfessionalCoaching.com On the Mark Branding phone: (310) 274-5542 USA email: info@OntheMarkBranding.com www.OntheMarkBranding.com 45 Reproduced with the permission of choice Magazine, www.choice-online.com
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