2020 has taught us that it’s even more important to have a strong team culture. Leaders are responsible for the organisation of team culture – but the culture is then defined by what happens when leaders are not looking. What you do, how you act as a leader, is what the culture becomes. Continue reading
Category Archives: Leadership
Anti-racism is about the change you make
Let’s be honest. Change is hard!
It’s not easy to focus on change, with so much work going on – so many problems to solve just to keep the day-to-day going. So much office politics, noise, emails, Zoom calls… Continue reading
Creating a sense of belonging with your teams - five essential leadership actions
Have you heard the phrases ‘best buys’, ‘investments’, ‘value for money’ or similar words that make you huff in your virtual meetings?
Sanitising our language means we dilute the many complexities of what it means to make social change happen. Continue reading
Do you know any women with too much on their plate?
Then send them over to the Change Foundry, which supports women working in humanitarian aid to make the impact they always dreamed of. Mia is a certified professional coach and supports women to get themselves out of the overwhelm, master their challenges and make a real impact. Continue reading
You and Your Productivity
Some of you out there may already follow Tim Ferriss or have read one of this books/blogs. A podcast we found interesting was his interview with Adam Grant (an organisational psychologist).
Some of the learnings we took away were:
Tip 1 - Be emotionally stronger and more proactive in receiving feedback Continue reading
Brains and Leadership – your Neural Parliament
Dr David Eagleman (brain scientist) said:
‘For people to be successfully creative they need to take in their inputs and mix it, blend and put out new things. But there is a sweet spot between the novel and the familiar to be successful. This applies from visual artists to scientists’ Continue reading
Compliance vs change: Skills missing in the aid sector
More than ever, the aid sector is under pressure to deliver. The sector has created a suite of training to ensure that people learn what must be done - proposal writing, grants, finance, monitoring and evaluation, project management and many more compliance-related trainings. As compliance and results measurements become more complex, our focus has turned increasingly towards these areas Continue reading