Leadership – an equalities issue
One day soon, we may look back on practices that are considered normal and be appalled at what was acceptable in early 21st century nonprofit workplaces. This article, the last in…
Lateral leadership
One person alone cannot deliver an organisation’s strategic plan, but strategies are often seen as ‘belonging’ to the Chief Officer or senior team. Lateral leadership involves people taking ownership, autonomy,…
Lasting Leadership lifts off!
This week we launched the Lasting Leadership guide to a full-house at the Gathering. It was fitting that its core messages about managers letting go of control and empowering their…
Fit for the next generation
In previous articles, I introduced the principles of sustainable leadership and the first two areas to address: succession planning and lateral leadership. this article, a preview of our new Lasting…
Succession is inevitable – success isn’t
Around a fifth of voluntary sector leaders are currently seeking a new opportunity. Three quarters of non-profit organisations do not have a succession plan in place[1]. In this blog we…
Principles of sustainable leadership
Next month we’ll share a free new resource to help nonprofit leaders and their organisations. ‘Lasting Leadership’ builds on some simple principles, set out below. It features four capabilities, introduced…
Lasting Leadership launch
There is no sustainability without sustainable leadership. We’ve been researching the topic for the last 12 months and will be launching our inspirational new ‘Lasting Leadership’ guide with a one-off…
Lasting Leadership programme opens for applications
We’re offering 10 subsidised places on a transformational Lasting Leadership programme focused on our soon-to-be published sustainable leadership guide. It will help participants to: Plan succession and capacity building in…
Our latest Lasting Difference Symbol holder announced!
Congratulations to Stop It Now! Scotland for becoming the latest organisation to receive the Lasting Difference Symbol in recognition of their commitment to organisational sustainability. Stop It Now! Scotland were…
Congratulations to the first five Lasting Difference Symbol holders!
The first five charities have been awarded The Lasting Difference® symbol in recognition of their commitment to organisational sustainability. This new symbol, launched in June 2019, allows organisations to demonstrate…
New workshops announced for England
We’re taking our special charity sustainability workshop on the road this autumn. We’re visiting London, York, Manchester and Birmingham to share our popular training and free resources. Early bird rates…
Workshop news!
We’re please to announce a special set of our popular one-day Lasting Difference workshops throughout England in November this year: York: Monday 11th November at York CVS Manchester: Wednesday 13th…
What the third sector is searching for
This year is the 30th anniversary of when I began working in the voluntary sector (if you count volunteering in a Barnardo’s charity shop instead of going to a year’s…
The Octopus and the Shipwreck
Over the last five weeks I’ve explored the four paradoxes of sustainability: The Change paradox: Only by changing can organisations be sustainable. The Yes/No paradox: The things that an organisation…
Sustain your organisation – say ‘no’ more
In this, the fourth free excerpt from Graeme’s new book on nonprofit sustainability, he explains that the things that an organisation needs to survive can also kill it. Saying ‘yes’…
Wrestling the octopus
Our organisations need to reach out in new directions to grow. But growing in too many directions pulls us out of shape. When organisations need to change to survive (which…
Forget stability, choose sustainability
In this second of 10 weekly blogs celebrating the launch of his new book, Graeme reflects on the paradox of change: Only by changing can organisations be sustainable. When discussing…
Making the case for inefficiency
The first in a special series of posts to by Graeme Reekie to mark the release of ‘Making a Lasting DIfference – sustaining nonprofit organisations and their impact’. Without efficiency,…
Writing the book on non-profit sustainability
Making a Lasting Difference, Graeme’s newly-released book, is an urgent exploration of organisational sustainability. Based on the Lasting Difference toolkit, it’s a long-form exploration of sustainability. It explains the main…
The State of the Sector
At the 2019 Gathering this February the SCVO presented results from their recent poll about the state of the Scottish third sector SCVO Third Sector Forecast 2019 . It has…