Helping Nonprofits Create Twice the Impact in Half the Time at a Sustainable Pace
You have a big goal for your nonprofit, and you are ready to score. But one superstar cannot get you there. You need a team that works together, trusts one another, and keeps moving toward the goal, one play at a time. That is why Agile is like a team sport, and it is how nonprofits create twice the impact in half the time. Soccer,…
What happens after your team finishes a grueling sprint, hits a big deadline, or submits the grant? If the answer is “they just move on to the next thing” — you’re not alone, and it’s costing you more than you realize. In this Pit Stop episode of Agile Driven Impact, Diane and Erich dig into one of the most consistently underdone habits on high-performing…
Most team friction isn’t about the work. It’s about unspoken expectations around how people work together — and nobody ever asked. In our latest episode of Agile Driven Impact, I dug into two skills that don’t get nearly enough attention in conversations about high-performing teams: how teammates prefer to give and receive help, and how to give and receive feedback in a way that actually…
Most teams treat the retrospective as a problem-solving session. You spend a few minutes listing what went well, then pivot quickly to what went wrong — that’s where the “real” improvements come from. Right? Not so fast, says Rob Hatch. In this latest episode of Agile Driven Impact, co-hosts Diane and Erich sit down with Rob, an executive coach and author of Attention!,…
Nonprofit teams successfully use a lot from the Agile Manifesto and specific Agile frameworks like the Scrum framework. Sprints, backlogs, and daily check-ins all transfer well to mission-driven work. But some of the language does not transfer well at all. Traditional project management often leans on aggressive or militaristic jargon. Terms like “pull the trigger” or “target audience” made sense in a sales-driven corporate…