In today’s rapidly evolving business environment, nonprofit organizations play an important role in addressing societal challenges and driving positive change. To navigate this complex landscape and lead their organizations toward success, nonprofit leaders must possess a distinct set of characteristics.
Below, 20 Forbes Nonprofit Council members share critical traits that are paramount for effective nonprofit leaders in the present-day business landscape. As the nonprofit sector continues to evolve, embracing and embodying these traits becomes increasingly vital in order for leaders to effectively fulfill their organizations’ missions and create lasting social change.
A Sense Of Humor. Whether you are a nonprofit or for-profit leader, every day brings numerous challenges, issues and problems. Being able to step back and find joy and humor in all of the “mess” will give you perspective. Taking the work seriously, but creating moments of fun and spontaneity gives people the space to be innovative and to approach things from a different angle with a different mindset.
Tina Admans, President, Minds Matter Southern California