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Professionally Speaking .... Hiring the right consultant for your organisation
Sandy Thompson discusses some of the things to consider to make sure you get the right professional for the job on hand.
Are you a great leader and you haven’t realised it? Maybe it’s time to take a closer look at your contribution.
Ruth Osborne uses the “Four Frames” to give credit where it’s due at the not for profit Leadership Table.
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Leading is like swimming toward the horizon: the more you go the more you see needs doing. But it's important to keep swimming.
Hilary Star Foged draws on Hopi wisdom and Margaret Wheatley to give guidance on how to rise to the challenge of leadership whilst personally coping in a world filled with challenges.
Naku Te Rourou: Feeding the Mission Without Selling Your Soul.
In which we learn that sharing our food baskets is a better way than tangling with the dangerous shopping trolley nipping at our heels.
Keynote by Garth Nowland-Foreman to Citizens Advice Bureaux New Zealand 2018 AGM, Wellington.
Time to Sharpen the Saw for Boards as Well
Garth Nowland-Foreman on the imperative for investing in the professional development of not-for-profit governance boards.
changeXchange - trading for the common good
Lindsay Jeffs introduces a new website to highlight and promote social enterprise in New Zealand.
Supervision – correction or reflection?
Aly McNicoll on the best approach and a discount when you step up your skills.
Investing in a Better Social Investment
Garth Nowland-Foreman on where social investment is useful - or not.
When we care too much about work
As a sector that works from the heart, Ruth Osborne talks about how to deal with the fall out of when we care too much about the work we do.
What I have learnt about conflict in organisations
The reality is, conflict is normal. According to Sandy Thompson, the organisations and leaders who step up and work with it, land up thriving.
What's with all the fractals?
At LEAD, fractals signify for us the interesting connection between the simple and the complex. Fractals make visible the patterns that exist within chaos, and are similar to images that represent natural systems.
Effective leaders pay as much attention to their 'To Be' list as their 'To Do' list
Hilary Star Foged blogs about how those around us remember us mostly for how we are, rather than what we do.
Jacinda’s little-noticed, biggest policy announcement for the well-being sector
While new governments often come in with lots of changes to individual policy areas, that all have implications for our sector, our current government actually plans to change the goal-posts - and in a (potentially) good way, says Garth Nowland-Foreman.
March Featured Training: "Partnering with Maori"
How to Practically apply Te Tiriti in your leadership and work. A one-day workshop senstively handled by Hilary Star Foged.
Navigating the Oceans of the not for profit sector
Aly McNicoll reflects on what she learnt and experienced at the National Not-for-profit Sector Conference 2018.
It's Sector Conference time
February 2018, Auckland: Join Sandy and Aly to get tools and tactics that'll build your capability as a not for profit leader, or just come hang with us.
Reflecting on reflection
Sandy Thompson maintains that wise leaders are like the ancient Roman god Janus standing in a doorway looking backwards at the previous year and ahead into the future.
The Community Sector and Collection of Client Level Data
Garth Nowland-Foreman joins other sector leaders to discuss the gathering and reporting of Individual Client Level Data and how this new requirement could affect your organisation.
Outcomes Plus: Knowing and Showing the ‘Added Value’ of Community
Garth Nowland-Foreman joins Trevor McGlinchey (NZCCSS) in this Community Research webinar.