We can all improve our fundraising performance but the options we have in today’s climate seem to be polarised. Completely entrench and try and wait the recession out or ‘revolutionise’ to make a big splash and out-shout the competition.
Although not a rant along the usual lines about the lack of preparedness for the current weather – and nobody can say we didn’t see it coming – I couldn’t let the opportunity pass to note the
It’s a wonderfully trite descriptor but the elevator pitch is still a useful tool to help us all focus on what we do from the perspective of the audience we want to communicate with.
I'm now officially tired. My Nan used to tell me that I would get square eyes if I stared at the TV screen for too long. I can't imagine what she would think of our obsession with screens on everything today.
I recently wrote a blog article suggesting that managers often don't like the annual process of completing performance reviews. Form-filling, subjectivity and a lack of regular on-going feedback opportunities were all at the top of a recent survey as reasons why.
It’s the time of the year when HR departments (or at least those individuals responsible for the ‘people stuff’) are pursuing line managers the length and breadth of the country to begin the for
What is your charity doing to make your donors feel special and valued? What kind of impressions or memories are you creating for your donors that will motivate them to give again and stay involved?
