March 4, 2010

Conversation is better than reporting. Conversation is more useful than updates. Asking meaningful (and open-ended) questions stimulates good conversation. Asking cage-rattling questions produces even deeper and more important conversation. All this together helps you and your organization learn and change. And learning and change is what it takes to be a healthy and effective organization.

So what’s the conversation like in your organization? How does your boss support meaningful and cage-rattling questions that nurture genuine and candid conversation? And how about your board? What happens there?

Check out all the questions on in my books and on my website.

Conversation is better than reporting. Conversation is more useful than updates. Asking meaningful (and open-ended) questions stimulates good conversation. Asking cage-rattling questions produces even deeper and more important conversation. All this together helps you and your organization learn and change. And learning and change is what it takes to be a healthy and effective organization. So what’s the conversation like in your organization? How does your boss support meaningful and cage-rattling questions that nurture genuine and candid conversation? And how about your board? What happens there? Check out all the questions on in my books and on my website.

 

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About Simone Joyaux

A consultant specializing in fund development, strategic planning, and board development, Simone P. Joyaux works with all types and sizes of nonprofits, speaks at conferences worldwide, and teaches in the graduate program for philanthropy at Saint Mary’s University, MN. Her books, Keep Your Donors and Strategic Fund Development, are standards in the field.

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