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Noteworthy Meetings | Tools of the Trade

by Zach Clark

Noteworthy Meetings | Tools of the Trade

When you ask a question, there is power in the answer. Are you listening? Are you harnessing it? One notebook has the potential to guide you to do just that!

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Bored with your Board?

by Zach Clark

Bored with your Bored?

I often hear complaints from development and advancement directors and teams working with faith-based nonprofit organizations, schools, and missions.  “Our board doesn’t get involved.” “Our board doesn’t contribute.” You’re bored… with your board.  At times, this can be completely confounding. The Christian mindset is to build one another up, to defend the widows and the […]

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To Delegate is to Disciple | Leading Well Through Mentorships

by Zach Clark

To Delegate is to Disciple | Leading Well Through Mentorships

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.” As leaders, we carry the amazing responsibility of raising others up to stand on level ground, and even to push them above and beyond. In so many areas of our faith, we are encouraged to think […]

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Discipline Can Be Deceiving

by Zach Clark

Discipline Can Be Deceiving

From the outside, as I hiked with several leaders after a long and productive day, it likely looked like I was a diligent, structured, disciplined person. I say this because several people commented on just that. However, that was merely a reaction to evidence available at the moment. I love discipline. I admire it. I […]

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Growing as a Leader | Doing More With Teams

by Zach Clark

As leaders, it’s imperative we deal with both success and stress in healthy ways so as to not discourage future generations of leaders. One of the most common questions clients and colleagues ask is, “How can I do more with a team?” I’d like to suggest today it’s not what the team can do, but […]

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The Exception is Not The Rule

by Zach Clark

From the thousands of interviews with major donors and from the constant conversation with our major donor advisors that I have, there is one word that keeps coming up. Flabbergasted. They will say that they are “flabbergasted” at the size of gifts they are being asked for in a first meeting. Too many operate with […]

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Importance of Influence During 2020

by Zach Clark

Importance of Influence During 2020

The ongoing work to grow giving that saves and changes lives is just a set of skills and disciplines. Why, then, is it so daunting in any season, but especially so amidst these extraordinary challenges for 2020. Along with countless other skills each of us have picked up in 2020, development leaders must add growing […]

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Are You Thinking Big Enough

by Zach Clark

When it comes to resources, I think many of us often feel constrained. We don’t have enough giving or we don’t have enough money. We know what we think we need, and we know what we hope for to meet these needs. We may even have a vision in our minds, but others wear it […]

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Reframe to Regain | Bringing Purpose to Perspective

by Zach Clark

The higher your degree of ownership, the higher your standards. I’ve found this to be true both in my professional and personal life. I’ve also found these standards to be hindering… or rather I once did. If nothing else, I want your takeaway to be this: You have options. Oftentimes being an achiever is a […]

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Positioned to Achieve | Resetting and Hitting Giving Goals in These Unusual Times

by Zach Clark

How do you know that you are putting yourselves in a position to achieve giving goals in these remarkable times? No one can see the future, but we can lean on God’s promises and steward well what we’ve been given to predict our financial future. Today I want to look at two areas to place […]

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Keeping the Faith | When Leaders Need Encouragement

by Zach Clark

Earlier this week, a member of our team was approached with an amusing question. Her younger son asked why we celebrate Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and even Grandparent’s Day … but not “Kid’s Day” in America. Not wanting to sound bitter or patronizing, she simply replied that every day is a day to celebrate awesome […]

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Momentum Motivates

by Zach Clark

I know exercise is good for me. I know I feel better when I workout. I know my physical health directly connects to my mental health and attention paid to one directly benefits the other. So why do I stop? Why do I have days or even weeks where I don’t exercise at all? Why […]

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3 Steps Emergent Leaders Need to Take

by Zach Clark

3 Steps for Emergent Leaders

With the end of the year approaching, you are in a unique position for your ministry. I’d even go so far as to say the strongest position you could possibly be in come December.  If anyone has giving decisions remaining to make before now and the end of the year, they are likely to find […]

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Strength Training | 3 Steps to Stronger Ideas

by Zach Clark

Strength stands on the shoulders of those who came before us. Years ago, I learned a formula that has changed my life. As a driven individual I can be guilty at times of being so focused I settle for nothing short of perfection. There was a time when I would rather have taken no action […]

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5 Steps to Better Hiring

by Zach Clark

How important is the next position you are seeking to fill? Does your hiring process reflect that importance?

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The Importance of Clarifying Your Message

by Zach Clark

It is crucial to communicate your message clearly in order to share what in the world you are doing and why.

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How to Shift from Busy to Effective

by Zach Clark

Position Yourself for Major Giving in the Second Half of the Year

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