by Karen Kendrick | Jun 7, 2023 | Personal Development, Self-care, Stress, Work Life Balance | Overworked, Personal Development, Self-care, Stress
What comes to mind when you think of work-life balance? Do you imagine feeling calm, being totally on top of things, with the perfect combo of play, work and family or friends, feeling happily successful? Is it this “place” you will reach when you’ve finally found the...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Mar 17, 2023 | Cultivation, Major Gift Officers, Relationship Building, Scheduling, Work Life Balance | Jobs, Major Gift Officers, Management, MGO Characteristics, Performance, Self-care
Recently, we shared on Facebook and our other social media about a free white paper of ours called, “Six Secrets to Becoming an Extraordinary Major Gift Officer.” One of the six secrets is that if you are to become an extraordinary major gift officer, you need to...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Aug 27, 2021 | remote work, Work Life Balance | Leadership, Power
It’s hard to know what stage of the pandemic we’re in. It looked like we were close to a post-pandemic world, but with this Delta variant, COVID-19 continues to linger. Maybe we’re in a kinda-post-pandemic time? Who knows when things will really return to a new...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Mar 2, 2020 | Anxiety, Stress, Work Life Balance | Qualifying, Self-care, Strategic Plans
Sixth in a Six-Part Series: What Should I Do If…? Major gift fundraising is the toughest job in the non-profit sector. Think about it. Your job is to build relationships with 150 donors (and all the work that entails), and to help them find joy in their lives through...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Apr 24, 2017 | Stress, Work Life Balance | Leadership, Major Gift Officers, Management
The demands on a major gift officer are enormous. I don’t have to spell them all out to you, because you live it. The same can be said for a development director at a small nonprofit who has to be “everything fundraising” at your nonprofit. I know firsthand. That was...