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Five Questions to Find Your Professional Vision
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What’s Your Professional Vision?
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Resource 5: Reading Your Donor Through the Five Paths
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Resource 4: Taking and Interpreting Your Five Paths Assessment
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The Collaborative Approach to Major Gift Work – A Field Guide Series
Academic Impressions Member Resource Major Gift Officer Development The Collaborative Approachto Major Gift Work A field guide series for gift officers and their teams — built around the Collaborative Donor Relationships Framework and The Five Paths to Leadership®. Resources12 total PhasesReframe · Know Yourself · Practice · Synthesis FormatSelf-paced, interactive Est. time4–6 hours total Start here Begin with Resource 1 — a short video and sorting activity that frames the case for a relational approach to donor work. Begin Resource 1 → This overview page is publicly viewable, but each resource below is exclusive to Academic Impressions members. You’ll be prompted to sign in or join when you click through to a resource. 1 Phase 1 Reframe Why the traditional fundraising cycle is leaving MGOs and donors behind — and what a different approach looks like. Resource 1Start here The Case for a Different Approach Video · Reflection · Sorting activity Names the structural problem with transactional fundraising and introduces the premise that this work should be joyful. → Resource 2 Introducing the Collaborative Donor Relationships Framework Interactive explainer · Scenario · Matching activity The five-phase framework through a scenario. Serves as a reference you return to throughout the series. […]
Resource 3: Why Self-Awareness Is a Major Gift Skill
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Resource 2: The Collaborative Approach to Major Gift Work
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Resource 1: The Case for a Different Approach
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Using the Five Paths to Leadership® With Your Team
The Five Paths to Leadership® is a proven model that helps individuals and teams understand their leadership strengths, and how to apply them more effectively. This assessment is free with your Academic Impressions membership. Unlike other leadership models that assign you a single style, Five Paths measures your ease of access to five intuitive leadership styles: Critical Thinker, Relator, Visionary, Warrior, and Sage, and shows how your style shifts under stress. You may be familiar with the Five Paths to Leadership® on an individual level. However, the tool becomes much more powerful when used with teams. When an entire team gains an understanding of their results, you can strengthen collaboration, lead with greater confidence, and help your teams thrive in a changing world. 1 Complete the assessment The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment is included free with your Academic Impressions membership, or available at $50 per license. To begin using the model with your team, you and all members of your team should complete the assessment. Log in to your account to access the assessment. Complete the assessment 2 Attend an Understanding Your Results session with your team We have upcoming sessions where a certified Five Paths to Leadership® facilitator […]