How Not to Lose a Critical Asset: Retaining Your Staff

Poor management
Employees can't be fooled. For most, no résumé or vita will make up for bad leadership skills. Or, you or your board may have chosen a new key manager for all the right reasons, but employees may perceive only another executive who has no idea what really goes on and doesn't seem to care either. You may not be in a position to influence your nonprofit's leadership, but you can model good management in your area of control. Employees often have most of their contact with their day-to-day managers, so make sure that wherever you can influence it, good management is the norm.