Building on Strength (BoS): Constructive Change for Nonprofit Organizations - Couverture souple

Phillips, Will; Case, Mary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0595277446 ISBN 13 : 9780595277445

Editeur : iUniverse, 2003

Synopsis

Building on Strength (BoS) ask nonprofit leaders to identify what works, and reveals a natural, insightful process of discovery aimed toward better educated and happier children, healthier people, vibrant neighborhoods, and enhanced understanding of the arts and cultural contributions to the life and leisure of visitors and citizens in our communities.

BoS begins as a normal human conversation, discovering the best, the highest points of a person's life, organizational achievement, and community strength. As people connect with examples of success from their own pasts, as they approach issues from positive positions, inventive solutions emerge, energy for change builds, and delivery of goods and services to the nonprofit sector improves.

BoS provides a condensed introduction to the history and theory of strength-based career and organizational development processes. BoS provides a workbook to lead the nonprofit leader through career and life coaching and organizational development.

You can use BoS methods to:

· Build communities that work

· Lead change with little resistance

· Think and plan strategically

· Build focus to change

· Evaluate programs and services

· Energize board or staff retreats

· Make a real difference on diversity issues

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Building on Strength (BoS) ask nonprofit leaders to identify what works, and reveals a natural, insightful process of discovery aimed toward better educated and happier children, healthier people, vibrant neighborhoods, and enhanced understanding of the arts and cultural contributions to the life and leisure of visitors and citizens in our communities. BoS begins as a normal human conversation, discovering the best, the highest points of a person's life, organizational achievement, and community strength. As people connect with examples of success from their own pasts, as they approach issues from positive positions, inventive solutions emerge, energy for change builds, and delivery of goods and services to the nonprofit sector improves. BoS provides a condensed introduction to the history and theory of strength-based career and organizational development processes. BoS provides a workbook to lead the nonprofit leader through career and life coaching and organizational development.You can use BoS methods to: ·Build communities that work·Lead change with little resistance·Think and plan strategically·Build focus to change·Evaluate programs and services·Energize board or staff retreats·Make a real difference on diversity issues

Biographie de l'auteur

Will Phillips from San Diego, CA and Mary Case from Washington, DC have decades in the nonprofit arena, helping nonprofits achieve their missions by marshaling creative forces to improve efficiencies, to connect with new audiences, to better use the talents and energy of staff and board, and to discover new ways of generating income. The consulting community they founded in 1993 is Quality Management to A Higher Power and may be reached at www.qm2.org. Qm2 helps nonprofits build successful futures by implement powerful concepts of learning, leadership, management, and organizational design.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: iUniverse
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0595277446
• ISBN 13: 9780595277445
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 48
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible