About this course

Proficiency Area: Learning.

Environmental Context is a nonprofit’s ability to assess its external environment.

In the first lesson toward your silver Merit badge, you'll explore:

  • Three key differences between leadership and management.

  • How leadership influences your understanding of your nonprofit's environmental context.

  • How to know when to lead and when to manage.

  • Four key leadership behaviors that will build an understanding of your environmental context.

Course curriculum

    1. What you can expect in this badge

    2. Before we begin...

    3. Putting Your Environmental Context Abilities Into Practice

    1. Activating your Own Efforts to Understand Environmental Context

    2. Leading Environmental Context-Building Efforts

    3. Check your learning

    1. Improving Environmental Context Practices in Your Nonprofit

About this course

  • Free
  • 7 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

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