by Graeme | Apr 23, 2019 | capabilities, Leadership, sustainability
Making a Lasting Difference, Graeme’s newly-released book, is an urgent exploration of organisational sustainability. Based on the Lasting Difference toolkit, it’s a long-form exploration of sustainability. It explains the main challenges to survival and...
by Graeme | Feb 26, 2019 | collaboration, impact, income, innovation, sustainability
At the 2019 Gathering this February the SCVO presented results from their recent poll about the state of the Scottish third sector SCVO Third Sector Forecast 2019 . It has revealed few surprises for those who have worked within the sector in recent years. There are...
by Graeme | Feb 7, 2019 | Leadership, sustainability
A recent longitudinal (2018) report ‘Path to Impact’ assessed the capacity and capabilities of non-profit organisations in Northern Ireland and Scotland using the Core Capacity Assessment Tool (CCAT). Across both regions ‘sustainable leadership’ was identified as the...
by Graeme | Sep 6, 2018 | improvement, innovation, sustainability, Uncategorised
In our last blog I explored the importance of innovation and its role in developing a sustainable culture. Once innovative ideas have been generated the next stage is to narrow them down and select the best option. Moving from the phase of divergent thinking to...
by Graeme | Jul 30, 2018 | innovation, Leadership, strategy, sustainability
It has been said that people are innovative, while organisations are less so. The notion of innovation inevitably raises questions for anyone operating in the non-profit world, from ‘is this idea really innovative?’ to ‘how can we find time to innovate?’ We would...
by Graeme | Jun 26, 2018 | capabilities, collaboration, innovation, strategy, sustainability
Here at the Lasting Difference we recognise the importance of collaboration as an activity which supports organisational sustainability. One of the indicators in our Lasting Difference toolkit focuses on this very point ‘Collaboration helps us harness resources and...
