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]]> By: Psychic Advice http://www.asmallchange.net/starting-a-new-job/#comment-299 Psychic Advice Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:29:05 +0000 http://www.asmallchange.net/?p=122#comment-299 Thanks for the great info. I hope you'll follow this with some more great content. Thanks for the great info. I hope you’ll follow this with some more great content.

]]> By: Chuck Warpehoski http://www.asmallchange.net/starting-a-new-job/#comment-298 Chuck Warpehoski Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:05:12 +0000 http://www.asmallchange.net/?p=122#comment-298 I really like your focus on listening and learning about the organization. I'm increasingly convinced that the most important skill in marketing, fundraising, community organizing, and nonprofit leadership is EMPATHY. You need to be able to understand what your audience, your donors, your volunteers, and your employees are going through and how they see things. If you take the time to develop and show empathy, it goes a long way to create the conditions for "legislative leadership." I really like your focus on listening and learning about the organization.

I’m increasingly convinced that the most important skill in marketing, fundraising, community organizing, and nonprofit leadership is EMPATHY. You need to be able to understand what your audience, your donors, your volunteers, and your employees are going through and how they see things.

If you take the time to develop and show empathy, it goes a long way to create the conditions for “legislative leadership.”

]]> By: Janice Chan http://www.asmallchange.net/starting-a-new-job/#comment-297 Janice Chan Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:26:09 +0000 http://www.asmallchange.net/?p=122#comment-297 Jason, I really appreciate your understanding that when you start in a new position of leadership at an organization, immediately changing things is not necessarily the best approach. Things are the way they are for a reason. Maybe the person who started the project just lacked experience, maybe there are other restrictions, who knows. But you won't be able to fix the problems unless you understand what's causing them first. Or likewise, fill in gaps unless you know where they are. And plus, making immediate and drastic changes rarely goes over well with the current staff... Granted, I could be biased b/c I don't deal well with change in general. But I still appreciate and I'm sure your new coworkers/staff do too! Jason, I really appreciate your understanding that when you start in a new position of leadership at an organization, immediately changing things is not necessarily the best approach. Things are the way they are for a reason. Maybe the person who started the project just lacked experience, maybe there are other restrictions, who knows. But you won’t be able to fix the problems unless you understand what’s causing them first. Or likewise, fill in gaps unless you know where they are. And plus, making immediate and drastic changes rarely goes over well with the current staff… Granted, I could be biased b/c I don’t deal well with change in general. But I still appreciate and I’m sure your new coworkers/staff do too!

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