Category: Non-profit projects and organisation

• Transparency in Change

  Think of the last change your business went through. Was it successful? Was it truly successful? If so, brilliant! Please put up a blog post about it and send it to me. And… you no longer need to continue reading this post. You cracked it! :-) For those of you whose change management wasn’t successful……

  May 5, 2024

  · change, critical reflection, Leadership, Non-profit projects and organisation, Organisational Development, Professional Development, Sustainability

• Psychological Safety in the Workplace

  Not a buzzword! Wikipedia defines psychological safety as: ‘… the belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. In teams, it refers to team members believing that they can take risks without being shamed by other team members.’ That sounds rather extreme doesn’t it… it…

  April 25, 2024

  · critical reflection, Leadership, mentoring, Non-profit projects and organisation, Organisational Development, Personal Development, Professional Development, Sustainability

• Engaging with Volunteers

  As a charity or community organisation, your volunteers can be the lifeblood of your work. Without volunteers, you may struggle to reach all the people you wish to support. However, engaging with, motivating and keep volunteers can be tricky. If you want to develop a successful volunteering programme, here are a few ideas! Keeping volunteers…

  April 17, 2024

  · Community of practice, Leadership, mentoring, Motivation, Non-profit projects and organisation, Onboarding, Organisational Development, Personal Development, Professional Development, Sustainability, Volunteers

• To Mentor or to Mentee..

  Humans have a need to learn and to help others. This is why we are curious and talk to each other, why most of us enjoy experiencing new things or places.  However, Clutterbuck (2014) warns us that sometimes our need to help others, to pass on our wisdom, outweighs our recipient’s desire to learn, or…

  April 7, 2024

  · change, critical reflection, imposter syndrome, Leadership, mentoring, Motivation, Non-profit projects and organisation, Organisational Development, Personal Development, Professional Development, Sustainability

• Communities of practice…

  …are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis.” ―Etienne Wenger, Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge What defines a community of practice is a group of…

  March 25, 2023

  · Adult Education, change, Community of practice, critical reflection, Leadership, Non-profit projects and organisation, Organisational Development, Personal Development, Professional Development, Sustainability

• Imposter Syndrome…

  The imposter syndrome: it can be a fleeting sensation that you only ever experience the once or one that cripples us with nerves at every available opportunity. I am the later. I hide my imposter syndrome behind jokes and constant re-questioning that can drive those around me mad. I become consumed with nervous energy and…

  March 23, 2021

  · Adult Education, change, critical reflection, imposter syndrome, Leadership, mentoring, Non-profit projects and organisation, Personal Development, Professional Development, Sustainability

• The practice of critical reflection…

  We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience. – John Dewey Critical reflection is self-critiquing…gently… Stepping back from and actively looking at how you work allows you to see ways in which you may have been able to achieve the same result in a better way. It is an internal quality…

  March 25, 2020

  · Adult Education, change, Community of practice, critical reflection, imposter syndrome, Leadership, mentoring, Non-profit projects and organisation, Organisational Development, Personal Development, Professional Development, Sustainability, work life balance