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Successful Nonprofits Podcast


Jan 15, 2019

We’re all familiar with that board member whose attitude, actions, and absences add up to disengagement. We’re faced with the questions: How can we reengage this person? Should we reengage this person?

Cindi Phallen, president of Create Possibility and author of The Impact Triangle: The 3 Essentials to Accelerate Your Nonprofit Enterprise, talks with Dolph about determining the best course of action when a board member is fading out. 

Links: 

Board Engagement Checklist: https://possibility-cp.com/free-resources/

Cindi’s site: www.possibility-cp.com

The Impact Triangle: https://possibility-cp.com/product/the-book-that-will-inspire-you-to-change-the-impact-triangle/

*****Timestamped Highlights*****    

(3:17) Success starts with mindset

(4:00) Four tools for board engagement   

(7:07) Let’s see how I can be a really bad volunteer…

(9:06) This fundraising myth

(10:30) Three parts of storytelling

(13:10) Get out of your own way

(17:21) Is Charlie still on the board?

(21:33) Exit interview

(25:38) Cindi, the bicoastal sports fan