Tag: leadership

  • Leaders Who Brunch

    Leaders Who Brunch

    So, at last, it’s happening. Leaders Who Brunch is opening its doors.  I’ve been dreaming about setting up this group for, literally, years because I know how much it’s needed. And finally, here it is. Leaders Who Brunch is a short, regular, morning meet-up for non-profit leaders just like you – when we’ll get together…

  • Could motivation be the missing ingredient?

    Could motivation be the missing ingredient?

    Sometimes it’s tough to motivate the people you manage, isn’t it? You know why it’s important that a project is completed in a timely way, but not everyone gets it. Others can be sluggish and unfocused. You sometimes feel it would be easier to just do it yourself. I know how difficult it is. This was the problem that a non-profit…

  • Live mindfully at work

    Live mindfully at work

    In my recent blogs I shared my ideas for how you can bring the first four of the ‘ways of wellbeing’ into your non-profit organisation. These are: Connect with others Keep learning new things Move Give The fifth pillar, as identified by research from the New Economics Foundation (NEF), is Take Notice. This is definitely one…

  • Wellbeing on a shoestring – more top tips

    Wellbeing on a shoestring – more top tips

    I’ve had a lot of lovely feedback following my recent blog about supporting your non-profit teams to wellbeing.  It seems to have struck a chord with my coaching clients and other leaders looking to make the world a better place and help their people thrive. Just yesterday I was talking to a senior leader in an NGO.…

  • Wellbeing on a shoestring: My top tips

    Wellbeing on a shoestring: My top tips

      I am so incredibly proud of my coaching clients. Many are senior leaders from small, non-profit organisations and few have extra funds sitting around for apparent ‘non-essentials’. It would be so easy for them to neglect their people, to just get their heads down, get the job done and expect others to do the…

  • Game, Set & Match – Six Ways Non-profit Leaders Are Like Tennis Stars

    Game, Set & Match – Six Ways Non-profit Leaders Are Like Tennis Stars

    At this time of year, my office (a laptop and a phone, basically) shifts to where I can hear the lovely summer sound of racket on ball, polite clapping and excited roars. Yep, it’s Wimbledon! My absolute favourite time of the year. Tennis analogies fill my brain. Tennis terms scatter about my copy. I just…

  • Lunch is for heroes

    Lunch is for heroes

      It’s 1 o’clock. Lunchtime! You know you need a break, something to eat, a stretch. But you’re presenting at a big meeting in an hour, 20 emails from this morning are still unopened, and your to-do list is, well, out of control. What to do? This is a dilemma I see a lot in…

  • Three Ways To Create Breathing Space

    Three Ways To Create Breathing Space

    Are you super busy? I bet you are! Most of my nonprofit coaching clients are too. Each day brings new demands, crises and challenges which need to be dealt with. I know for many of them, it’s a struggle to peek above the parapet, breathe and see the bigger picture. Thinking clearly and strategically, such…

  • Why leaders need to tell stories

    Why leaders need to tell stories

    I recently went to a wonderful event, Being The Story, run by digital storytelling organisation, Sound Delivery (strapline – ‘we champion stories that need to be told’). Over the course of the day, twelve speakers with personal stories to share about why they were working for social change made the audience of nonprofit people whoop,…

  • What if they find me out?

    What if they find me out?

    I’m starting with a new coaching client this week. In our recent Discovery Session to explore if we wanted to work together, she shared her nervousness about her new leadership role. “What if I’m not up to it?” she confided. “What if I should have stayed where I was?”. “What if they find me out?” Ah,…