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Lead With Integrity: 3 Steps to Get Started
Leading with integrity requires us to make choices that align with our mission and values. Here are the foundational steps to fuel your leadership.
Template: Train-the-Trainer Agenda
Expand your reach by teaching others how to be trainers for your program, system or service. Here are our tips and a planning template to get you started.
Meeting Activity: Getting Unstuck in Your Leadership
As part of a team meeting, leadership retreat or board meeting, use this activity to help your people get unstuck.
Break Out of The Rut: An Activity for Your Next Team Retreat
If you are looking for ways to help your team break out of a rut, think more expansively and take creative risks, try this activity at your next team retreat.
If You’re Doing It Right, Your Clients May Be Frustrated
Systems change and capacity building is messy, tangled and challenging. Sometimes clients feel that—and that’s a good thing.
The Executive Director in a Flat Organization: The Many-Faced Leader
Leading in a flat organization isn’t about calling the shots—it’s about mastering the art of adaptability, from steering the vision to amplifying your team’s brilliance, all while balancing chaos and creativity.
Everyday Changemaker
You are a changemaker. Get a short preview of my upcoming book and add your insights!
Charting a Course for Flat Leadership in Systems Change
As a systems change leader, how you view power influences your leadership. Here’s how to move toward a flat leadership approach when engaging in community change initiatives.
Our Obsession With Perfection in Changemaking Leaders
What would it be like if you were able to share a glimpse of your personal journey within your professional life? Changemakers don’t need to be saintly. As a holistic being, a human, sharing your warts is part of our work.
Leading Through the Rapids: Transforming Bureaucratic Currents into Educational Empowerment
Feeling like you’re being pulled downstream? Tired of fighting the current? Here’s how to navigate that.
Guiding Principles for Capacity Building or Service Delivery Systems
How do create guiding principles to guide materials development and facilitation practices, so they all align with a clear, unified vision that uniquely meet the needs of your systems-change work.
How to Maximize Impact of Your Changemaking Efforts
When navigating cross-sector systems change work that centers young people, how do you maximize your efforts and wisely invest your time, talent and funding? Here’s our time tested model and some solid do’s and don’ts.