Leading a nonprofit is a full-time job. In the start-up phase, when nonprofit teams are small and jobs are shared, it’s easy to communicate with team members about contacts made or tasks completed. In the flurry of growth activity, however, important information often becomes hard to locate because it’s spread across team member post-it notes,…
As the leader of an organization, you’ve undoubtedly been faced with the challenge of delivering difficult feedback. While we may generally agree that feedback is an important part of growth, most of us are pretty uncomfortable communicating it. We don’t want to be perceived as arrogant or uncaring, and we know our words have the…
Building a strong relationship with your customers is key to having a successful business. If you’ve been around Anna Montgomery & Co very long, you probably already know that we believe one of the best ways to build strong relationships is by cultivating trust. There are lots of factors that are important in building trust…
Have you ever found yourself working on a task for which you hardly feel equipped? Perhaps the task fell to you because it aligned more closely with your other job responsibilities than anyone else’s. As you begin trying to tackle the task, however, you might feel about as adept as an elephant in the kitchen….
In our first post, Design for Non-Designers: Intro to Terms, Part 1 we spoke about the first 5 of the 12 basic principles of design. We continue with the next 6 principles in this post. If you’ve found yourself in a situation where you need to create something from nothing, and you feel ill-equipped, we…
When it comes to change, what’s your style? For some of us, change is a necessary evil. We’re generally leery of it, preferring the perceived safety of the known—even if we’re not too crazy about it—to the riskiness of the unknown. The people at this end of the change spectrum likely arranged the furniture in…
As a small organization, have you ever felt stuck? You want to grow and increase your impact but have no idea where to even begin. You have a great mission and lots of passion, maybe even a logo and a website, but you don’t know how to most effectively share who you are and how…
