Surviving to Thriving ⎢Nonprofit Leadership

Nonprofits and social enterprises need leaders who can make sense of an ever-changing world and create a vision for future possibilities. One way to develop these skills is with "big picture thinking." In this episode of the Surviving to Thriving Podcast, Leadership Development Coach Kathy Archer shares how to build big-picture thinking skills as a nonprofit leader. LINKS Episode # 62 - The 5 lead...

The most important ingredient for helping your nonprofit team is trust. Find out how to build that trust by coaching them. Join Coach Michelle Maloy Dillon and me as we walk you through elements of effective coaching. In this episode, you will learn:  Why do leaders need to coach their team members? What are some of the mistakes leaders make when trying to coach their employees? Why is curiosity a...

Nonprofit leaders have strong relationships skills! It's time to learn the 4 relationship competencies you need to build really effective working relationships with your nonprofit team because building relationships is crucial to building a successful nonprofit team. It's not easy, but it's worthwhile. So take the time to develop strong connections with your people! LINKS The Training Library Memb...

Reaching goals — Hitting targets — Getting results — These are all critical components of nonprofit leadership. So how do you do that? In this episode, you'll learn competencies you need to develop to increase your ability to achieve results to do the mission-critical work you and your organization desire.   LINKS The Training Library Membership Site The free Leadership Circle Profile assessment A...

Is your nonprofit too dependent on government grants? If your nonprofit relies primarily on government funding, then you are a the mercy of what's happening politically instead of someone who believes what you believe. This quick episode invites you to consider why that may not be your best bet and introduces you to some ideas about different ways! In this episode, Cindy Wagman and I riff about on...

What makes a good nonprofit leader? Women leaders need specific competencies to effectively lead, manage and develop a nonprofit team that achieves its mission.  If you are one of those women who desires to be an effective and impactful leader, then tune in. In this nonprofit leadership mini training via the podcast, you will learn the  5 leadership competencies you need now for impactful nonprofi...

Are you a Nonprofit Leader? You need this mindset to lead effectively!   Leadership in a nonprofit requires you to manage teams, set strategy and raise money.  To do that, you need to adopt a growth mindset, an open way of thinking and rewire some of your neuropathways!  In this episode, I talk to Cindy Wagman, the President and Founder of The Good Partnership and a Certified Fundraising Executive...

Personal and professional development is vital to the well-being of any nonprofit leader. Learn how you can create your professional development action plan that will help you grow personally and professionally in your role as a nonprofit leader.   LINKS The Training Library Membership Site https://www.kathyarcher.com/library.html   WEBINAR: Create Your Quarterly Goal Setting & Planning Strategy!...

How can you become a leader that people trust?  You do that by activating your moral compass.   Your moral compass is your ability to judge what is right and wrong and act then behave accordingly. When you use your moral compass to make decisions, people will find you ethical and trustworthy.   In this podcast, I give you three questions you can ask during self-reflection, to help you made decisio...

Do you ever have trouble making decisions? Has anyone ever told you that you are indecisive? Perhaps you've received that feedback on a performance review? Here's the thing, one of the key things we're looking for in our leaders is that they are decisive. That is, effective leaders can make decisions confidently and quickly. And if you struggle a little bit with doing that, tune in and learn a dec...

Nonprofit leaders have a lot to do, too few employees and small budgets. So how do you get everything done in your organization? You get help! You may not have the budget to hire another employee, but I invite you to think differently. In this episode, Freelancer Jasmine Williams and I talk about how nonprofits could benefit from hiring a freelancer to help them with project work and tasks that of...

Discover how to build trust with your nonprofit team because: Engaged teams trust their leader. Trust builds teamwork and collaboration. Trust is critical for motivating your team to reach their potential But how do you create trust with your team? In this episode, you’ll learn 5 ways to build trust in your nonprofit team! LINKS The Training Library Membership Site https://www.kathyarcher.com/libr...

Developing team trust in your nonprofit is essential for leaders! Therefore, it's important to ask: How do you know if your team trusts you! How does it feel when your team really trusts you? In this episode, I help you understand trust, what it feels like and how to know if your team is really trusting you. Because here is the thing about a trusting relationship, you can trust me one day and not...

If you want your nonprofit team to thrive, you need to learn and implement the fundamentals of creating a psychologically safe workplace.   In this episode, we talk to Ruthann Weeks about what is and how to create a psychologically safe space where employees feel safe to take interpersonal risks like: asking for help expressing ideas reporting mistakes reporting near misses A psychologically safe...

Without trust, relationships falter, teams unravel, and work doesn't get done. On top of that, you cannot support your clients in the way you want to, your contract requires you to, and your clients need you to be there for them! Trust is foundational for relationships, teams and leadership.  Hence, you should be focusing on it.  But are you? Most leaders don't consciously consider how they are bu...

​Your nonprofit team is continually training people.  But if you are like many nonprofit leaders, you're not sure if it's very effective. The truth is, you likely were not taught how to teach.  Most nonprofit leaders are industry experts, i.e. social workers, human services workers, child care workers etc. Yet, we think we should be able to figure it out. When we do that, sometimes we create less...

Many women leading in nonprofits try to suppress their emotions when they approach a conflict situation. As you'll learn in this episode, that rarely works long-term. Instead, HR Consultant Sarah Albo will teach how important and effective it can be to identify and acknowledge your emotions. When you do that, you'll get to a place where you can use your managed emotions to brainstorm and problem s...

Do you want to learn how to let your mood positively impact your team? Watch this episode and learn! If you want your team to excel in your nonprofit, your leadership style matters. That also means your mood matters. In this episode, you'll learn how shifting from grumpy to positive scattered to focus lacking enthusiasm to feeling enthusiastic narrow-minded to open lacking the passion to passionat...

If you are stuck in survival mode, it's impacting your team, and you need to get out fast. In this episode, you'll learn 5 ways your survival mode energy is negatively impacting your team! Because here's the thing...if you don't get out of survival mode, you are at risk of exasperating the negativity, lack of enthusiasm, team dysfunction and, of course, the never-ending gossip and drama! As a resu...

Most of us know about turnover from personal experience. We've either left a job, been encouraged to leave a job or been pushed out the door. Alternately you've been the one in charge of keeping loyal team members but struggle with people constantly jumping ship. What's going on? Why is turnover so high in the social profit sector? In this episode, Maryann Kerr will talk about the # 1 reason why p...

Did you know how you, as a nonprofit fundraiser, fundamentally think about money is probably way different than how your donor does? Neither of you is wrong, but as the saying goes, knowledge is power! In today's episode, you will learn more about money archetypes, how they shape our thinking and why you need to prepare for conversations differently when you speak to different people about fundrai...

When is it time to get help to address conflict on your nonprofit team? with HR Expert Stacey Messner  Conflict is normal on any team. It's part of the growth process. We need to storm before we can norm. However, at times, conflict can be damaging to a team. The result may be a toxic workplace. If your team is headed down that path, you may be wondering when is it time to get help and where you g...

LOVE IN YOUR NONPROFIT Have you lost your passion for your work?  Do you wish you could feel engaged, create an engaged team and enjoy the work you do? All of that comes from allowing your heart to be involved in your work. Too often, we’ve been told to stop being so emotional. To no be so caring. We’ve been told we’ll burn ourselves out.  But we are burning ourselves out by not caring, not feelin...

I love doing the weekly podcast for you, but I realized it’s time to make a change! Tune in to hear what the change is, how I made that decision and what you can learn about making hard decisions too!   LINKS The Training Library Membership Site https://www.kathyarcher.com/library.html   ABOUT Kathy: Hi, I am Leadership Development Coach Kathy Archer. I help women leaders ditch survival mode and e...

When you think you don't have what it takes to make the big asks, you hold yourself back from the powerful fundraising you can do!    In this episode, you'll learn how to overcome "non-enoughness" so that you can feel differently about raising money for your nonprofit!    ABOUT MALLORY  Mallory Erickson is the fundraising coach for passionate leaders making a big social impact. Through her groundb...