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

by Paul L. Dann (Author)

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.

Front Jacket

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.

Back Jacket

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.

Author Biography

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.