Module 5: Communication
Module 5: Communication
Communication for Non-Profit Leaders
How to Keep Board Members Engaged Between Meetings
Your board members need regular reminders that they care deeply about the organization and its mission; this blogpost offers a simple strategy using the power of storytelling.
https://blog.joangarry.com/keep-board-members-engaged/
Communicate for Success
It can be hard to communicate effectively when you are dealing with workplace conflict. Ideally you will resolve a conflict with the person directly to bring the issue to their attention and give them a chance to respond. Here are a few basic tips to help you have a difficult conversation:
Communication for Leaders
Strengthening abilities in communicating assertively, providing and receiving negative feedback, managing conflict, and influencing others positively. A downloadable pdf package or individual articles on related topics.
https://www.workplacestrategiesformentalhealth.com/mmhm/communicating.html
Managing Conflict Between Employees
https://www.workplacestrategiesformentalhealth.com/managing-workplace-issues/resolving-conflict
The Wheel of Disillusionment
A blogpost about understanding and mitigating a toxic work culture. A toxic work culture is different than regular conflict because there is usually a clear power differential.
Navigating Challenging Conversations
Podcast Interview: How to Have a Difficult Conversation
This is part one of a two-part podcast featuring Sheila Heen, co-author of the best-selling book Difficult Conversations. The episode is about difficult conversations and how to approach them.
https://blog.joangarry.com/ep-109-difficult-conversations-part-1-with-sheila-heen/
10 Ways to Deal with Difficult People in Your Not for Profit
Nonprofit staff, volunteers, and board members are cause-driven. They have significant emotional ownership in the mission and the agency itself. They take most decisions very personally. The passion that can help an agency run so smoothly and deliver significant impact is also the passion that can make some valuable individuals challenging to manage.
https://tomokarma.com/dealing-with-difficult-people/
Media Relations
Nonprofit Story Telling
Whether it is to raise money, create awareness, recruit staff and volunteers, or report to funders, learn to tell a compelling story about the work your shelter does.
https://blog.joangarry.com/nonprofit-storytelling/
Book: Strategic Communications for Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide to Working the Media
This book is an up-dated, nuts-and-bolts guide to helping non profits design and implement successful communications strategies. The book offers a unique combination of step-by-step guidance on effective media relations and assistance in constructing and developing an overall communications strategy aimed at creating social or policy change. It first explains the basic principles of a strategic communications strategy that will define the target audiences you need to reach and tells how to develop the messages and messengers you use to reach them
https://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Communications-Nonprofits-Step-Step/dp/0470181540
Making Your Elevator Pitch
“Tell me a little bit about your organization”. You know your mission, you have mission-passion – how do you bring it to life?
https://blog.joangarry.com/nonprofit-elevator-pitch-1/