Managing and Leading Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework For Success - Hardcover

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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.

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<p>Filled with practical, applicable strategies for successfully leading nonprofit organizations,<I> Managing and Leading Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework For Success </I>is a one-stop resource for nonprofit board members, managers, founders, employees, and other leaders seeking to take their nonprofit to the next level.</P> <P>The book reveals the power of thoughtfully articulated leadership practice at the individual, team, and organizational level. It allows the reader to develop and refine their ability to lead others in the nonprofit and public context, using practical strategies, universally applicable examples, and useful leadership tools. It perfectly balances simple and straightforward techniques that can be immediately applied to any organizational environment with more complex and nuanced material for more experienced practitioners. <P><I>Managing and Leading Nonprofit</I> Organizations explores a variety of leadership models&#8212;including transactional, transformational, charismatic, quiet, situational, and servant leadership&#8212;and ways to create and maintain a positive organizational culture. It also includes effective methods for performance management, employee engagement, and supervision. <P>Sections on change and conflict management are well-suited to leaders in a nonprofit industry that is always rapidly transforming and reinventing itself, and practical strategies for working with a team are useful for practitioners of any leadership style. <P>The book is written to help nonprofit leaders avoid the most common pitfalls, and engage with the most effective strategies, in nonprofit and public organization leadership. It provides a complete leadership toolbox for both novice and experienced leaders attempting to guide a nonprofit through the 21st century. <P><I>Managing and Leading Nonprofit </I>Organizations belongs on the bookshelves of managers, executives, board members, directors, department heads, and other leaders of nonprofit and public organizations everywhere.

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Filled with practical, applicable strategies for successfully leading nonprofit organizations, Managing and Leading Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework For Success is a one-stop resource for nonprofit board members, managers, founders, employees, and other leaders seeking to take their nonprofit to the next level.

The book reveals the power of thoughtfully articulated leadership practice at the individual, team, and organizational level. It allows the reader to develop and refine their ability to lead others in the nonprofit and public context, using practical strategies, universally applicable examples, and useful leadership tools. It perfectly balances simple and straightforward techniques that can be immediately applied to any organizational environment with more complex and nuanced material for more experienced practitioners.

Managing and Leading Nonprofit Organizations explores a variety of leadership models--including transactional, transformational, charismatic, quiet, situational, and servant leadership--and ways to create and maintain a positive organizational culture. It also includes effective methods for performance management, employee engagement, and supervision.

Sections on change and conflict management are well-suited to leaders in a nonprofit industry that is always rapidly transforming and reinventing itself, and practical strategies for working with a team are useful for practitioners of any leadership style.

The book is written to help nonprofit leaders avoid the most common pitfalls, and engage with the most effective strategies, in nonprofit and public organization leadership. It provides a complete leadership toolbox for both novice and experienced leaders attempting to guide a nonprofit through the 21st century.

Managing and Leading Nonprofit Organizations belongs on the bookshelves of managers, executives, board members, directors, department heads, and other leaders of nonprofit and public organizations everywhere.