DRG News, Leadership, Nonprofit Management
DRG staff
DRG Supports the Black Community At DRG Talent Advisory Group, we strive for excellence in all that we do. Excellence requires that each member of our team can work and learn in an atmosphere of dignity, respect and acceptance. As a talent advisory firm, we understand and are deeply committed to diversity and inclusion. […]
Leadership, Nonprofit Management
David Edell
We have been speaking to nonprofit leaders on how they plan to lead their organizations forward in the post-COVID world. People are scared and looking to their leaders for comfort and guidance about what is next. For nonprofit organizations, there is much to be learned from how the sector navigated through past health, political and […]
Leadership, Nonprofit Management, Talent Management
Dara Z. Klarfeld
[This article was originally published by Dara Z. Klarfeld in LinkedIn on 03/17/2020] Week 1: What Our Team Has Learned So Far About Working Remotely Like most companies that have been able to make the switch, our team has started working fully remotely. And while we were technologically prepared to make this change, the bigger concern […]
Leadership, Nonprofit Boards
David Edell
[This article was originally published in eJewish Philanthropy, under the “Managing Your Nonprofit” category on 09/20/2018 – Original link available here] Ask any Board Chair if they know who will succeed them. (Ask any of those mentioned if they are sure they will accept.) Ask any nominating committee chair about the responses they get as they […]
Leadership, Nonprofit Boards
DRG staff
I’ve heard it said that people get hired for their IQ—but they get fired for their EQ. EQ, known less colloquially as emotional intelligence, is defined by Psychology Today as “the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others. It is generally said to include three skills: emotional awareness; the ability to […]
Interviewing for a Position, Leadership
Sara Garlick Lundberg
I sit in on hundreds of interviews with executives each year, and I’m struck by how frequently skilled and strong women exhibit these three diminishing habits. And they do so regardless of age, years of experience and seniority. Minimizing Accomplishments Job hunting is a vulnerable place to be, and it’s natural for the minimizing […]
Hiring & Recruitment, Leadership, Selecting A CEO
DRG staff
A decade ago, leaders were perhaps easier to define. In the days of contracts or fee-for-service reimbursements, boards relied on a steady hand at the top, a CEO with solid long-term experience in the IDD sector, skilled at overseeing all elements of his or her agency, from contracts to quality assurance to human resources to […]
Career Transitions, Leadership
DRG staff
Over the course of my career I have benefitted from many, many informal mentors. A common way that I’ve found to be “a giver” in our professional lives is through mentoring. There are several considerations to be made before jumping onto the mentoring bandwagon. Here are some of the things I’ve learned along the way […]
Hiring & Recruitment, Leadership, Selecting A CEO
DRG staff
A lauded human service organization finds itself at a crossroads. Its longtime CEO, who has ably led the organization for nearly two decades, is ready for retirement. When the board retains an executive search firm to help them identify their next leader, the search committee proves receptive to advancing someone from within the organization. But […]
Leadership
David Edell
I recently prepared for a seminar with the Strell Executive Leadership Fellows at the Hunter School of Social Work. The subject was “What are the Trends Affecting Non Profit Leaders in 2017.” Much has been written about the subject. As I re-read many of these articles, and interviewed nonprofit CEOs in a variety of service […]