Many mission-driven leaders struggle to connect their long-term strategic plans with daily workload realities, leading to constant firefighting and stalled progress. Watch this session to discover how bridging the strategy gap with middle-layer planning and the CALM framework transforms high-level goals into actionable weekly tasks.

Burnout in mission-driven organizations is often driven by systematic overwork rather than a lack of individual resilience or self-care. Watch this session to discover how managing capacity across strategic, planning, and execution levels can help your team achieve sustainable impact without overextending your people.

Unclear leadership creates uncertain, frustrated teams that struggle with high turnover and lost productivity. Watch this session featuring guest operations consultant Maritza Davila to learn how setting simple, transparent goals and fostering leader accountability can transform your organizational culture.

Unclear leadership creates uncertain, frustrated teams that struggle with high turnover and lost productivity. Watch this session featuring guest operations consultant Maritza Davila to learn how setting simple, transparent goals and fostering leader accountability can transform your organizational culture.

When mission-driven teams operate under constant urgency without structure, effort spreads thin and burnout quickly follows. Watch this session to discover three practical questions you can ask to restore clarity, manage capacity, and refocus an overwhelmed team.

We talked about how a lack of clarity in decision-making stalls projects and what to do about it.

We talked with Amy Petersen about why collaboration tools rarely solve team dysfunction, and how to identify and address the deeper culture and process problems that technology only exposes.

Learn about how to identify and manage project risks.

We talked about common reasons projects fail and what to do about it.

We talked with Katherine Turner about successful strategic planning in chaotic times.

We learned about how to address common project meeting challenges.

We talked with Rebecca Marchiafava about avoiding burnout.

Learn about the factors that create successful project teams.

We talked with Veronica LaFemina of LaFemina & Co. about managing change.

Learn how to fix three common project management mistakes.

We talked with Seth Giammanco about managing website and design projects.

Learn about managing program development projects.

We talked with Emma Browning about her productivity research and framework.

Learn about managing grant projects.

We talked with Christine Preziosi about event planning and management.

Learn about how to implement a strategic plan with Ricky Chilcott.

Learn about working with a project manager.

Learn about ways to evaluate project success.

Learn about developing and managing project budgets.

Learn when and how to streamline your strategic planning process.

Learn ways to use AI to support your projects.

Learn about facilitating better meetings with Dr. Curtis Rogers.

Learn how to best prepare for project planning.

Learn about the value of PMOs with Stacye Brim of STB Consulting.

Learn about strategies for determining the feasibility of your projects.

Learn about fundraising planning and projects with Susan Kahan of Sapphire Fundraising Specialists.

Learn about strategies for managing our own time as project managers.

Learn about the importance of stories to projects and planning with David Norris of Proofpact.

Learn about the essential templates to use in your projects to save time and create consistency across projects.

Learn how to initiate projects and set your team and stakeholders up for success.

Learn how to support success across a portfolio of projects using consistent processes.

Learn about strategies for rescuing your outdated or irrelevant strategic plan.

Learn about when and how to consider the sustainability of our project’s outcomes.

Learn about integrating the 5 key elements of projects for mission-driven organizations into one project plan.

Learn about planning for and managing your project’s communications.

Learn about including, engaging, and managing your project’s stakeholders.

Learn how to define your project’s deliverables and use them to guide your planning and tasks.

Learn how to use project schedules to set expectations, track progress, and mitigate delays.

Learn the importance of project scope in engaging stakeholders and maintaining focus.

Learn ways to use retrospectives to strengthen your teams.

Three realistic strategies for successfully implementing your strategic goals.

Learn which agile principles are most useful in leading projects, teams, and planning.

Learn how to use meeting agendas to solve problems and address team challenges.

Learn simple strategies for engaging with our community of stakeholders during strategic planning and when managing projects.