When it’s time to wind down or pivot
Had a great run with your community of practice / network? Is the momentum diminishing? Could it be time to pivot or wind down? Introduction: Over the past decade [...]
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Sep 2024
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Feb 2024
Transitioning the Testing Change project
As many of you who have been readers of this blog know, I have written a number of times over the past years about the Civil Society and Testing [...]
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Dec 2020
Rebuilding civil society
Recently I had the opportunity to co-create, host and facilitate the annual workshop of Accountable Now. We used many of the approaches that we have developed through the Testing Change [...]
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Dec 2019
Most popular blog posts of the decade
It is hard to believe we are already at the end of the decade (and that I’ve been blogging for a decade!) but here we are :) For my end [...]
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Nov 2019
Global Maturity: An Organizational Framework to Succeed Globally
Last week I participated in a discussion around some of the success factors for how organizations can engage and grow more effectively internationally. We reviewed a report entitled Association Global [...]
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Sep 2019
Global Engagement Takes Time – Part II
One of the fun parts of being more ‘senior’ in one’s career is having the opportunity to share ‘lessons learned’ over the years. I had the opportunity to participate in [...]
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Oct 2018
Strategic International Outreach
If your organization is expanding its international reach, taking time for doing the due diligence to explore and understand new environments is crucial. First steps to take include clearly articulating [...]
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Aug 2018
Going Global Takes Time
Going Global Takes Time - that was the theme of an American Society of Association Executives MasterClass on operating globally that I presented at last week. 80% of the group [...]
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Feb 2018
Global Trends for Social Sector Organizations
I recently facilitated a session for social sector practitioners on global trends for organizations engaging internationally, and some ideas for how they could incorporate them into their operations or programs [...]
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Jan 2018
Creating and nurturing global networks
By Roopa Dhatt, Bonnie Koenig and Kelly Thompson A couple of years ago Bonnie wrote a series of posts on how our concept of networking has changed in a more [...]