Thursday, February 27, 2025

How to Get Donor Mapping Right: Mastering Donor Mapping for Fundraising Success

 

Donor mapping is more than just identifying funding sources—it’s about understanding your donors' priorities, preferences, and potential for collaboration. This webinar dives deep into the art and science of donor mapping, providing you with the tools and strategies to build a sustainable fundraising pipeline for your organization.

Online Certificate Course - Leadership in Project Management for Development Organizations and NGOs

 Leadership is not a position or a title!

You don’t need a title or a degree to be a leader; anyone can be a leader when the situation demands it. In this course, you will learn about situational leadership and how anyone can have the opportunity to lead in times of confusion, difficulties, and challenges in the project. The course will teach you how to lead the team and project stakeholders to reach a common vision. The skills you will learn will include communication, negotiation, conflict resolutions, coaching, presentation skills, and many more.

Leadership skills are perhaps the greatest determinant of project success. Project managers must demonstrate leadership effectiveness throughout each phase of the project lifecycle.

This course explains the challenges and issues concerning effective project leadership and how to best meet these challenges. It evaluates various leadership theories and will help project leaders assess their own personal styles; describes motivational approaches and barriers to team performance and the stages of team development. In this course, you will learn how to best resolve conflicts and manage agreement, and how to enhance communications effectiveness. You will develop the necessary skills to get the maximum performance from every member of the team, know how to apply the methods of leadership that are most appropriate for achieving project success, and discover which forms of leadership and communication are best suited to the various stakeholders. You will learn techniques for resolving conflict and managing team issues, and gain a solid understanding of analyzing stages of team development and maximizing project team effectiveness.

Friday, February 21, 2025

Is a Compensation and Benefits strategy and policy necessary to run the organization

 

Compensation and Benefit strategy is one of the key document for a organization. It depends on the size of the organization and the category of the operation. When an organization starts its journey, it starts with a very small number of staff and operation is also small. At this stage, all the recruitments are very vital and the owner of the organization recruits for very specific positions with a very special skill set.

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

SWOT Analysis Explained: The Ultimate Guide to Strategic Success

The SWOT analysis is a simple and effective process for assessing an organization's strategic capabilities in comparison to threats and opportunities identified during environmental scanning. Although we refer to SWOT as an organizational tool in this section, it can also be used to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of parts of an organization (for example, the HR function), products or services, and individual initiatives.

PESTLE Analysis: A Strategic Framework for Informed Decision-Making


The environmental scanning process is systematized by searching for environmental forces organized under specific categories. This process is commonly referred to as a PESTLE analysis for political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental categories.


A PESTLE analysis can be conducted on different levels: for the entire enterprise, for individual units or functions, or for specific activities. Performing this type of analysis requires HR professionals to adopt a broader and more long-range perspective than they may ordinarily use. At the same time, analysts must restrict their horizons and the directions they scan, or the organization will drown in data whose analysis may absorb too much time or whose complexity may paralyze decision making.

The general process is similar to some of the steps used in the risk management process. PESTLE analysts:
  • Assemble a list of possible events or trends that exist now or could materialize within a defined time frame. This could be done through brainstorming meetings, interviews or focus groups with experts in certain areas, or literature reviews.

Becoming a More Impactful Communicator

Source: SHRM Online Readling Materials  Communicators are perceived as impactful for a variety of reasons. Some factors may be difficult to ...