Workplace Satisfaction – Page 6

Finding The Perfect Non-Monetary Workplace Perk

Friday, June 29th, 2018Friday, April 18th, 2014 by Drew McManus

One of the mainstays of my traditional consulting work is negotiating individual work agreements; for managers, this usually focuses on executive employment agreements and for musicians, individual overscale agreements and one of the first aspects of that work is to identify non-monetary perks that have variable degrees of value for the client. More often than not, they tend to overlook a number of items simply because it never occurred to them …

More On The Value Of Happiness

Monday, February 17th, 2014 by Drew McManus

Workplace satisfaction is an important topic here if for no other reason than it is one of the most common areas where the field refuses to address its collective shortcomings. But I’ll let you in on a secret: the first groups to genuinely embrace the notion of creating and, perhaps more importantly, quantifying internal value by way of workplace satisfaction and happiness will also be among the first groups to successfully …

OCSM Keynote Address: Fourth Generation Theory

Sunday, January 21st, 2018Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 by Drew McManus

On Thursday, August 16, 2013 I had the honor of delivering the keynote address for the 2013 Organization of Canadian Symphony Musicians (OCSM) Conference and I wanted to share the slides and a transcription of the speech with Adaptistration’s readers. But first, a few provisos for context: The Q&A session at the end was fascinating as a number of delegates presented some very thoughtful questions and observations. Those aren’t something that …

Show A Development Pro Some Love

Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 by Drew McManus

There’s a wonderful post from Joe Patti over at Butts In The Seats titled Info You Can Use: Development Directors Need Love Too that examines the dangerously high levels of career unhappiness among development professionals. We examined the very same topic here back on 1/22/2013 and it’s good to see other folks picking up on the topic. In short, we can’t expect this predicament to get much better if it doesn’t …

Fixing Industrial Strength Unhappiness

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 by Drew McManus

There’s a terrific, if not sobering, report in the 1/13/2013 edition of The Chronicle of Philanthropy by Jennifer C. Berkshire (h/t Thomas Cott) which reports that more than half of VP level Development professionals would like to quit. One in four nonprofit leaders is so disappointed in fundraising at his or her organization that the last person in the job was fired, according to a new national study to be released …