Advance Your Career through Nonprofit Board Service
Advance Your Career through Nonprofit Board Service
About the Book
Merge Your Professional, Philanthropic, and Personal Missions with Strengths-Based Nonprofit Board Leadership
You want to invest in your profession, the causes you care about, and yourself, but your time and energy are limited. You need one approach to amplify your effectiveness and impact in all three domains at once. Here’s the approach: Strengths-based leadership.
With the exercises and information in this book, you will:
•Learn your own strengths and how you can use them to get better results in your professional pursuits.
•Learn to form strengths-based board leadership teams, so you can have greater impact when you serve on not-for-profit boards of directors and with your professional association. This way you’ll have the strongest people taking the lead on fulfilling board responsibilities, instead of simply the people who can’t say no or (worse) the people who were absent from the meeting when committee chairs were assigned.
•Complete a matrix mapping your and your colleagues’ strengths to their responsibilities. You can then use the matrix, and the resources in this book, to take your own leadership team, and/or any board of directors on which you serve, from good to great.
•Discover that it’s perfectly legitimate to use nonprofit and community board service to advance your professional career—if you have a genuine passion for the organization’s mission, and you can say with integrity that you’re contributing talents and skills the organization’s board needs. Nonprofit board service gives you leadership development opportunities that can help you excel in your profession as well.
•Identify nonprofit and community organizations that fit your passions; match your skills and talents to their needs; and plan to perform leadership roles with excellence.
Your profession, the causes you care about, and your own personal development matter. Strengths-based leadership ties them all together into a win-win-win with your leadership at the center.
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Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- Copyright Notice
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1. Introduction
- Aim of the Book
- Quick Overview of the Contents
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I Advance Your Career through Nonprofit Board Service
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2. It’s About the Mission
- Mission Impact Defined
- All Kinds of Ways to Change the World
- Serve for the Right Reasons
- Don’t Overcommit
- Worksheet: It’s About the Mission
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3. It’s About You
- Develop Your Leadership Strengths
- Benefits for Your Career
- You Can Do It Now
- Worksheet: It’s About You
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4. Conclusion: Advance Your Career through Nonprofit Board Service
- Further Reading
- 5. Action Plan: Advance Your Career through Nonprofit Board Service
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2. It’s About the Mission
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II Understanding Nonprofit Board Leadership
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6. Ten Responsibilities and Privileges
- Three Summary Responsibilities
- Committee Work to Fulfill the Ten Responsibilities
- How the Ten Responsibilities Lead to Mission Impact
- What to Expect from Board Service
- Worksheet: Ten Responsibilities and Privileges
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7. Finding the Right Board
- Worksheet: Finding the Right Board
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8. Conclusion: Understanding Nonprofit Board Leadership
- Further Reading
- 9. Action Plan: Understanding Nonprofit Board Leadership
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6. Ten Responsibilities and Privileges
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III Leading with Strengths on a Nonprofit Board
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10. Why Strengths Matter for Leadership
- People and Teams Operate Best from Their Strengths
- Boards Operate Best from Their Strengths
- Understanding Your Strengths
- Strengths Theory and Positive Psychology
- Gallup’s StrengthsFinder Strengths
- Going from Good to Great
- A Strong Board Team
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11. Matching Strengths to Board Responsibilities
- Strengths Matches for “Provide Strategic Leadership”
- Strengths Matches for “Ensure Abundant Resources”
- Strengths Matches for “Provide Oversight”
- Worksheet: Matching Strengths to Board Responsibilities
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12. Conclusion: Leading with Strengths on a Nonprofit Board
- Further Reading
- 13. Action Plan: Leading with Strengths on a Nonprofit Board
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14. Next Steps
- Read
- Consider
- Act!
- 15. Action Plan: Pulling It All Together
- About the Author
- Contact Me
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10. Why Strengths Matter for Leadership
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