“Both the history of our firm and the value system we operate from closely synchs with the way a nonprofit engages with the world. We automatically think about and consult around fundamental principles like mission, meaning, impact, contribution, and social covenants. Because of this compatibility of world views, we feel very much at home within nonprofits.”
In all types of organizations, not just nonprofits, culture is almost always an under-rated/-utilized driver of performance. Yet, if a NP wants to attract the best and the brightest; groom them to their full potential; and retain them, then NP leadership will miss a huge opportunity if they’re not dialed into the extraordinary impact of a well designed culture.
Here’s a telling thought experiment. Can you design an unattractive and demotivating culture? Absolutely! Here are some of the key ingredients:
Just add water, stir, warm and, voila, you’ve got an NP culture tuned for under-performance and turnover. This is a surefire way to create plenty of disillusioned professionals, morale problems, and program breakdowns.
Now, after that thought experiment, it’s less difficult to visualize the winning NP culture:
Because NPs are only as successful as the quality of their intellectual capital, they rise and fall on how astutely they manage their investment in human capital, their people. In its work with nonprofits, tGCP brings solutions to bear that focus on people and the institutional cultures in which they perform.
We like the 25-year track record our solutions have in nonprofits. If we can assist, we’d like to.