Ep. 215: Leadership Skills to Develop when transitioning to a Nonprofit Executive Career

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Leadership Skills to Develop when transitioning to a Nonprofit Executive Career —------------------------------------------------------ ✨💌 Visit www.grantwritingandfunding.com for the Hub Haven Grant Writing Resources 💌✨ 👉💰🖥️ Grant Writing Master Course: Get sample grants, logic models, videos, and more. Start to write winning grants! https://grantwritingandfunding.com/grant-writing-master-course/ 🖥️🔥 👉 Want to get paid to write grants? Join the Freelance Grant Writer Master Course to launch and grow a freelance grant writing business: https://grantwritingandfunding.com/freelance-grant-writer-course/ 🤗☕👉 Want to increase funding strategies for your Nonprofit? Join the Nonprofit Strategic Planning Master Course to schedule out your year and to increase diverse funding strategies: https://grantwritingandfunding.com/nonprofit-strategic-planning/ ———————————————————————————— What We Discuss In This Episode: ✨ 3 areas for lateral entry in nonprofit organizations ✨ How to understand philanthropy ✨ Making sense of volunteer management ✨ Understanding governance for a working board of directors ✨ What to do if you hit a glass ceiling ✨ How to know if you should move laterally to move up the executive ladder ✨ Vital questions to self-assess what skills you need to develop ✨ Areas of nonprofit expertise to learn when shifting from the corporate world ✨ The current job market (2022) and what folks are looking for when switching to the nonprofit sector ✨ The huge movement of GenZ moving into the nonprofit world as a career ✨ How nonprofits provide economic contribution to the GDP ✨ Patton’s new book! Patton McDowell is a nonprofit expert, author, speaker and coach. He leads PMA Nonprofit Leadership, a consulting practice he founded after his successful twenty-year career in the nonprofit sector. His leadership experience includes work at Special Olympics International and Special Olympics North Carolina, and he led fundraising teams at a public and a private university. He is a frequently sought-after consultant and speaker on nonprofit issues of strategic planning, organizational development and staff & board leadership. Patton received a BA from UNC Chapel Hill, an MBA from Queens University of Charlotte, and a Doctorate from the University of Southern California. He’s a Certified Fundraising Executive and a Master Trainer for AFP International. Find out more at: https://grantwritingandfunding.com/215 Favor, please? If you love this podcast, would you please do me a favor and leave a review on iTunes or your podcast listener?

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