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- Practical strategies for ensuring leadership success within nonprofit organizations In Managing and Leading Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework For Success, veteran senior leader and CEO Paul L. Dann, PhD, draws on over 30 years of developing and advancing nonprofits to walk you through practical strategies that support success as a nonprofit leader.
- About the Author: Paul L. Dann, PhD, is Executive Director of NFI North, a nonprofit mental health and human services agency providing care to children, youth, families, and adults throughout New Hampshire and Maine.
- 272 Pages
- Business + Money Management, Nonprofit Organizations & Charities
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"Leading and Managing Nonprofit Organizations will provide leaders and managers with practical strategies for ensuring organizational success. Dann's 30+ years of experience developing and advancing organizational success is brought to bear to enable the reader to advance their own practice-based leadership capabilities. The book is filled with practical strategies to assure successful leadership practice with universally applicable examples of how identified strategies are implemented and leadership tools that can be successfully applied in practice. Seasoned as well as newly minted leaders will experience this book as an indispensable tool for advancing their leadership practice. Leaders across various sectors, from the nonprofit and public sector, will benefit from the balance of theory and practice. In light of growing complexity and increasing challenges, today's organizations require leadership practice that is highly adaptive, flexible, and effective. Leading and Managing Nonprofit Organizations provides readers with the capacity to develop and refine their ability to meet the leadership demands of today's organizations"--Book Synopsis
Practical strategies for ensuring leadership success within nonprofit organizations
In Managing and Leading Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework For Success, veteran senior leader and CEO Paul L. Dann, PhD, draws on over 30 years of developing and advancing nonprofits to walk you through practical strategies that support success as a nonprofit leader. The book is filled with universally applicable examples of how to implement its leadership techniques.
Leaders working in a variety of sectors will benefit from the author's careful balance of theory and practice. In the book, they'll also find:
- How to choose a leadership style that suits your personality, the people you work with, and your organization
- How to engage in the co-creation of leadership through generative leadership practice, including the development of an organizational philosophy, practice, and structure
- How to manage employee performance and engagement and how to choose successful management systems to leverage success
Ideal for practicing and aspiring nonprofit organization managers, board members, and directors, Managing and Leading Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework For Success is an indispensable, one-stop resource for the development and deployment of leadership skills in challenging as well as complex nonprofit environments.
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A hands-on, how-to guide to nonprofit leadership and management
In Managing and Leading Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework For Success, veteran nonprofit director and educator Dr. Paul Dann delivers a practical roadmap to managing and leading a nonprofit or public organization. It's packed with concrete strategies and immediately applicable techniques for managers, founders, directors, employees, and other leaders who seek to improve and grow their organizations.
The book explores a variety of leadership styles, including transactional, transformational, charismatic, quiet, situational, and servant leadership, as well as techniques for building and maintaining a positive and ethical organizational culture. Readers will find ways to avoid the most common nonprofit leadership pitfalls and mistakes, as well as tools to help them engage with their teams and produce results.
The author presents effective strategies to manage the performance of team members, reduce employee and colleague conflict, and supervise others. He delivers a balanced combination of straightforward techniques ideal for immediate application by novice leaders and more advanced methods that will be of interest to experienced nonprofit managers.
Managing and Leading Nonprofit Organizations is an invaluable resource for any nonprofit leader looking for a hands-on guide informed by decades of real-world leadership experience.
About the Author
Paul L. Dann, PhD, is Executive Director of NFI North, a nonprofit mental health and human services agency providing care to children, youth, families, and adults throughout New Hampshire and Maine. He is a faculty member in the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire.