More than half of the 50 senior sages say there is no personal sacrifice in their civic engagements. For them, the benefits far out-weigh personal costs.
Gary Quehl is President of Quehl Associates, a national firm providing services to colleges, universities, and nonprofit organizations in the areas of executive coaching, leadership development, comprehensive strategic planning, governing board education, and fund raising. Dr. Quehl also served for sixteen-years as President and CEO of two Washington, DC-based, higher education associations: Council of Independent Colleges (the national service organization for private colleges and universities) and Council for Advancement and Support of Education (the international service organization for fund raising, public relations, marketing, and alumni officers from 3,400 colleges, universities, and independent schools in 74 countries). Gary has authored or co-authored 32 books and articles in the fields of public affairs, philanthropy, and higher education. He has served on 50 boards during a 45 year period, has led leadership seminars for non-profit and for-profit leaders and organizations, and has been senior fund raising counsel in helping universities and nonprofit organizations to raise $300 million. Quehl was co-founder of the Center for Nonprofit Leadership and has directed its Sage Leadership/Civic Engagement Project (Grass Valley and Nevada City, CA).
More than half of the 50 senior sages say there is no personal sacrifice in their civic engagements. For them, the benefits far out-weigh personal costs.
While emerging sage leaders identify with all five motivations, most senior sages are chiefly motivated by altruism and self-interest—and a few by power.
In this fourth issue we investigate both the motivations associated with civic engagement for these men and women and the sacrifices being made by them on behalf of this engagement.
Emerging sage leaders tend to be motivated in one of five ways to become civically engaged.
You have been identified by friends and colleagues as one of our community’s 50 top senior sage leaders. A sage leader is a person who brings unusual experience, sound judgment, and wisdom in working to advance the civic well-being of our community.
You have been identified by friends and colleagues as one of our community’s 50 top senior sage leaders.
You have been identified by friends and colleagues as one of our community’s 50 top emerging sage leaders.
Those experiences that provide seniors with most meaning and satisfaction are organizational achievement and success, assisting others, helping to improve the community, teamwork, and personal and professional growth. In addition, some senior sages identify giving recognition to others as being highly meaningful.
The sources of meaning and satisfaction for emerging sages include achieving organizational success, aiding others, helping the community to improve, the intense feelings that can arise from collaboration and consensus-building, and personal and professional growth.
Senior sages experience most of the same obstacles as emerging sage leaders: financial challenges, communications, internal stress and conflict, personal issues, and problems that arise over differences between nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Unlike emerging sage leaders, seniors also identify the absence of effective leadership as a major challenge.
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