Open Questions: The Ross Collective Blog
Sharing insights and stories on nonprofit strategy, racial equity and leadership
Our best emerging insights from celebrating 100 newsletters
Our voices and our perspectives matter
In our most challenging moments, can we find the path to empathy and peace?
Finding our way through grief and trauma for a different path forward.
The first step to creating an impactful, effective strategic plan
Get the right people at the table - or in the circle.
A blessing for the world on my birthday
Blowing out the candles with the wish that we each thrive.
The Honest Advice about Change I Wish I Didn’t Have to Give Last Week
People have to want change in order to move towards it.
A key first step for strategic planning
Notice and acknowledge the best work you are already doing and figure out how to do more of that.
5 Steps to Planning for 2023
Planning helps us think about where we want to go…and the steps to get there.
Leadership is naming the hard stuff - and illuminating a path forward
Leadership is naming the hard stuff and illuminating a path forward
Three important lessons from a mentor who is no longer with us
Toni Littlestone was a Bay Area career coach who supported thousands of people over the years.
How a surprising royal lesson about stories and systems can help us make change
If you are a leader making change, you should also be thinking about how to make connections between individual stories and larger systems, and what you and your organization are seeking to shift.
Three tips for doing hard things – even when we feel like giving up
The Ross Collective creates spaces that support leaders to do things that go beyond their comfort zone.
How organizational values can intensify and improve fundraising and strategy
Conversations about organizational values matter because they give staff and board members the opportunity to talk about some of the questions that are most critical to the organization’s work.
How small experiments move us from grief to a joyful path forward
Small experiments create little successes that we can build on.
Four questions to lead inclusive, interactive meetings
For better meetings, ask these questions beforehand.
How managing change well can help teams embrace joy
How to use our leadership to guide our teams through transition.
Three big ideas to bring your team back together now with compassion and hope
Our framework to help nonprofit teams reconnect and find a path forward
Seven guiding principles for my leadership as a white facilitator
Guiding principles for leading as a white facilitator
How five minutes invested up front builds resilience and connection
It is more important than ever to build a positive organizational culture. How can nonprofit leaders do this now?