Potential versus Pain

Potential versus Pain

When you are thinking about expanding an area of your organization’s fundraising — whether that’s major gifts or events or email campaigns, it can be useful to ask yourself: what’s the potential versus the pain?  Really, that’s just a silly, alliterative way of...
Better Questions for Better Meetings

Better Questions for Better Meetings

If you can ask questions that get people talking, your meetings will be more lively and interesting. They can transform from Information Delivery Systems to Idea Generation Sessions. We have all sat in meetings or presentations — whether in person or online...
What are we gonna do?

What are we gonna do?

During a recent session of channel surfing (yes, I’m GenX, and yes, I still channel surf), I came across an old favorite movie: Rocky. Let me start this post by saying: If you haven’t seen Rocky (the original, first film in the series, from 1976), please stop reading...