[Guest Post] Using Gallup’s StrengthsFinder to help your board fundraise more effectively

Image of John Fulwider - using Gallup's StrengthFinder to help your board raise money for your nonprofit

Today it’s my honor to introduce you to John Fulwider. I’m a guy who loves helping people find their strengths and talents. John is the first person I’ve met who teaches nonprofit boards how to use the Gallup StrengthsFinder to find their strengths. He’s a sought-after speaker, especially on nonprofit board and staff development and [...]

Career Change Without Felony Charges

Last week Good Day New York invited me to talk about career stress in light of Steven Slater’s quitting his job by jumping out of a JetBlue plane. The interview is below. But there was so much more that I sent to Good Day New York. The entire 5-page article is available here: Changing Careers [...]

Managing Assumptions

In the last edition, I mentioned some points taught by Betsy Rigby, Director of Development with Partners HealthCare at the New England Association for Healthcare Philanthropy annual conference in Rhode Island last month. One was the two managment theories, ingloriously named, Theory X and Theory Y. Along with of these, she mentioned the role assumptions [...]

Managing nonprofit employees (and volunteers)

Last week I was at the annual conference for the New England Association for Healthcare Philanthropy. It was a great conference, and I did alot of tweeting. You can see all my NEAHP tweets here. A great session I went to was on managing development staff by Betsy Rigby, Director of Development with Partners HealthCare. [...]

Highlands in WSJ

I’ve been a fan of the Highlands Abilities Battery ever since I took it back in 2002. It’s still something that helps me in finding the right “place” for myself. And like Victor Kiam, I liked the company so much I became a trained administrator of the Battery. So I was thrilled to see it [...]

Abilities: A Summary

As we’ve learned through this series, an “ability” is a hardwired, natural talent that we’re born with. It speaks to the things that seem to come naturally to us; the things we do with relative ease. We all do things that we are not talented in. We’ve built up skills to help us with these [...]

Driving Abilities: Problem Solving

Just as we saw four profiles emerge from the Personal Style abilities, there are four profiles that come with the combination of the Driving Abilities of Classification and Concept Organization. CONSULTATIVE People high in both classification and concept organization fit the “consultative” problem solving style. Not only do these people thrive in a chaotic environment [...]