Meeting the Job Challenges of Nonprofit Leaders: A Fieldbook on Strategies and Actions

Chapter 4

Supervision

Figure 2: Supervision

Role Complexity

The issue: Nonprofit leaders are almost always also individual contributors to programs and other areas of work, such as program design, proposal writing, and revenue generation. Few if any nonprofit leaders have strictly leadership roles. They have people-management roles and individual contributor responsibilities as well.

Why it matters: Finding the appropriate balance between supervising and doing means learning to allow others to grow into responsibility while sharpening one's own personal effectiveness.

“Why don't my client management skills work with managing staff?”

Natalie ...