Successful Development Professionals are methodical and strategic. We don’t rush (except when we’re under a deadline for a gala or something), instead taking a slow and steady approach to our work.
When Development Professionals rush, mistakes happen and donations are lost!
We’re planners. We think ahead, sometimes waaaay ahead. At one org I worked at, I had the date set and booked for our annual golf tournament 3 years in advance!! And I drove the president crazy when I insisted we start looking for our next honorees, the day after our last dinner (actually 2 days because I always took time to recharge the day after our major gala).
So, when people complain that we move like sloths, it’s not because we don’t know what we’re doing; it’s because we know precisely what we’re doing and working through it the way it needs to be done to be as effective as we know it will be!