Tag Archives: Time Management
New Year’s Resolutions
Yes, I know, a copout of a blog topic. It’s been a tough year. Nonetheless, what better time to combine a little soul searching and desktop planning? Forgive me for offering, for your consideration, a few possible resolutions for the New Year: 1. Make major gifts a genuine priority of your organization. Support your decision [...]
Planning Essentials: A Staff-Volunteer Partnership
At least annually, consider scheduling a focused planning session with your key volunteers, then incorporate their thoughts and yours into your development calendar, goals, objectives and timetables. The advantages to this process are numerous: – Helps assure realistic goals and objectives based on historical data, your constituency and economic forces so goals can be challenging yet realistic – Involves the [...]
Managing Your Time Managing Your Prospects
As a development officer, how can your most effectively manage your time in your moves managing process fifty two weeks a year? Realistically, you probably need to allow four weeks for your vacation, appointments, sick days and other non-productive time. Consider twelve to fourteen weeks focused on your special events (depending on how many your [...]
