To build capacity with others, you need to start with yourself. That means building capacity from the inside out. Start with these seven tips.

Here are ten facilitation skills you already have mastered for in-person sessions. As a leader-facilitator, you gotta be flexible! This post offers ways you can adapt for your virtual meeting spaces. 🙌 🙌

Many leaders of capacity building work bring this puzzle to us: “What would make our capacity building and professional learning efforts “more engaging” for our learners?” Here are the least motivational reasons.

Our role as leader-facilitators is to be open to what’s possible, recognize it and help others find it within themselves. Review these words of possibility—what comes up for you?

As leader-facilitators of change, we persevere not because of saviorism or even altruism, but because of sanity, logic, relationship and reciprocity. This article highlights the core practices we build and grow within ourselves to help us keep going.

In the spirit of transformation and with a touch of humor, we, the bold proponents of transformational capacity building, hereby declare our independence from deficit-based approaches. We embark on a journey of innovation, where we focus on building and strengthening the systems, structures, cultures, skills, resources, and power that individuals and organizations need to truly serve their communities.

In the realm of youth-focused organizational growth and development, it's critical to understand the unique roles played by research and evaluation firms vs. capacity-building orgs. They both have tremendous value and work well together—research sets up the launch pad and capacity-builders help you reach your destination!

When you build trust within your team or network, you reinforce your organization’s real value, build credibility and motivate individuals to remain engaged. But, as a nonprofit leader, how do you *actually* build that trust across a broad reaching staff or network of members? Do you really need to do trust falls?

There are four key actions you can take right now to boost the quality of your virtual meetings. Check them out here!

We all need new ideas, new connections and new energy to lead us into this next year. Reignite your interest in other programs and people by actively connecting to others in out-of-school time. Your professional network will offer you support and connection when the going gets tough… and it’s been tough! So, now’s a good time to gather together to build, heal and connect.

As a leader in the field, you may already be doing these things. If you’re not, try them. If you are, consider how you could share these steps with staff on your team. Help them grow their professional networks.

As the new program year begins, it’s important staff build positive relationships with young people. Share these basic tips with your team to get started.

Over the past 18 months, everyone has become more comfortable online. People who formerly preferred conference calls and didn’t own a webcam became adept at seeing themselves on camera and even using emoji reactions. Let’s build upon that progress and improve your meeting facilitation so every virtual participant feels like your online meetings are a good use of time.