Latest Internationaldevelopment Podcast Episodes
Are You Sports Coaching or Leadership Coaching?
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - October 30, 2023 09:37 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWe often hear the word "coach" and think it means the same, whether someone is a leadership coach or sports coach. But all coaching IS NOT created equal. Sports coaching and leadership coaching are actually very different, and in order to know which we are doing, it's important to know the d...
Why They're Not Doing What You Ask
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - October 23, 2023 03:35 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsHas this happened to you as a humanitarian and/or international development leader? You have a meeting with your team, or community, or implementing partner, and you think you've agreed on what to do next. You come back a week later, and find out... nothing has been done! Why is that? Th...
Why You Need to Have More Fun at Work - and Some Ideas on How
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - October 16, 2023 07:51 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsDo you have fun at work? If so, how often? I think most of us can use more fun in our work and personal lives, but rarely do we stop to think about how to INTENTIONALLY create it. Having fun at work has been linked to greater productivity, staff morale, and creativity. And it doesn't requi...
Top 3 Coaching Mistakes Leaders Make and How to Fix Them
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - October 09, 2023 06:59 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThis week registration opens for "The Coach Approach Leadership Style" coaching course and to give you an idea of what we cover, I am sharing the top three mistakes I see new humanitarian and development leaders make when coaching, and how you can overcome them! I'm showing you how these might...
A Simple Way to Motivate and Build Trust with Others
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - October 02, 2023 04:03 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsUnderstanding how to acknowledge our team can be the difference between gaining their trust and breaking it. It's more than just saying "nice job!" or "you're amazing!" In this episode I share tips on how to acknowledge (hint, it's different from a complement) and how you can use it to motiv...
How to Save Yourself from Unnecessary Stress
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - September 25, 2023 04:35 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsDo you spend late nights thinking about all the things you have to do? Are you distracted worrying about future funding? Do you worry about bigger issues not within your control such as climate change or the economy? If so, this episode is for you. I share two practical and easy tips to ...
Going Beyond Your Job Description
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - September 18, 2023 09:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhat would you love to accomplish beyond what's in your job description? Not the "have to do" but the "WANT to do". Something that if you accomplished it, you would be so proud - and would make lasting impact on your team and beyond. Many of the leaders I work with have not thought about t...
To Remote Work Or Not? Deciding Whether to Return to Five Days in the Office
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - September 11, 2023 03:28 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsHas your organization returned to five days in the office? If so, how was the reasoning behind it communicated to you? Or maybe you made the decision for your team. I have been hearing more and more of organizations going back to the five days in the office work week. There is nothing wr...
Why Do We Keep Referencing Toxic Leaders as Successful?
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - September 04, 2023 03:43 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThere are certain behaviors that over time have become acceptable and part of being a successful leader. These include working long hours, sacrificing relationships and even sacrificing our own health. Part of this problem is that the leaders that are named "successful" by society (especiall...
Toxic Boss Burnout - How to Survive a Toxic Boss
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - August 28, 2023 04:21 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIt amazes me how common it is to have a toxic boss in the humanitarian sector. Unfortunately these toxic supervisors drive talented people out of the organization and do more harm than good. If you are one of those suffering with a toxic boss, this episode is for you. I share how to survive i...
When Training for Your Team Won't Work
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - August 21, 2023 04:16 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhen we plan our Development Plans for the year, and we want to be stronger in a certain area, we usually assume we need a training. And that may be partially true. But training alone does not guarantee action. Have you ever wondered why your team member attends a training on how to be an ...
How Often Are You Really Leading?
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - August 14, 2023 10:27 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsSometimes we get lost in the busyness of our day, and we forget what leadership really is. True leadership is not about using our power to make others follow our commands. True leadership is about inspiring and motivating others to WANT to follow us. How do we do that? In this episode, w...
What Is the Right Question?
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - August 07, 2023 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhen you are coaching or learning to coach your team to better performance, you want to do it well. I see this with my students when they first start learning how to coach. They know they need to ask a series of questions to help their team think through their own problem. And so they want...
Leadership Lessons Learned During an Unexpected Crisis - the Outbreak of Civil War in South Sudan
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - July 31, 2023 14:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsEveryone has one or more moments in their life they will never forget where they were or what they were doing when an unexpected event took place. For me it was a typical hot sticky evening in South Sudan, with a broken generator in the hundred degree heat. I remember getting up in the night ...
How to Avoid Burnout
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - July 24, 2023 05:51 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsBurnout is an ongoing topic of discussion in the humanitarian and development sectors. Like others I am always seeking ways to help aid workers avoid burnout. Recently I came across a webinar by Marcus Buckingham in which he spoke of how certain people effectively avoid burnout. And I want...
Three Essential Components to Empower Your Team - Part Three
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - July 17, 2023 12:01 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhat will make you successful at creating an independent, proactive team? Based on hundreds of hours of observation, I have come up with three components. I call them the Trust Triangle. The first is trust in your own ability (self-confidence), the second is trust in your team and the thir...
Three Essential Components to Empower Your Team - Part Two
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - July 10, 2023 12:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsLast week we discussed how it is essential to trust ourselves (self-confidence) before we can trust others. This week as part of the Trust Triangle I am introducing the importance of trusting your team. If you don't trust your team, how can you empower them? You won't. So how do you know...
Three Essential Components to Empower Your Team - Part One
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - July 03, 2023 11:19 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsEmpower your team to do better work. Sounds great, right? So why don't more humanitarian and development leaders do it? It has to do with our trust levels. In order to lead in an empowering way and create a more inclusive environment, we need three essential components. It's what I cal...
How to Continuously Improve as a Leader
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - June 26, 2023 06:53 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIf you're listening to this, you probably are interested in growing as a leader. So how can you grow continuously and become a better leader? This is what I share in this week's episode - the kinds of questions you can ask yourself that will help you keep growing and improving, so you can ma...
The Importance of Recognizing How Far We've Come
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - June 20, 2023 08:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIt's important to recognize how much we have accomplished and milestones along the way in our leadership journey. Today I am celebrating episode 250 with a special guest, Mark Peter Notaras. We discuss some recent achievements we have both accomplished, and the importance of recognizing how f...
How to Strengthen Your Relationship with Your Team
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - June 12, 2023 04:01 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsSuccessful leaders have strong relationships with their teams. When your team feels you value them and trust them, they will want to help you succeed. When they win, you win. So how can you build a strong relationship? It starts with strong communication. Learn more in this week's epis...
The Most Motivating and Effective Way to Lead
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - June 05, 2023 07:09 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMany of us underestimate how our values influence how we feel and show up as leaders. How can you tell if you are not aligned with your values? You may feel stressed, frustrated or demotivated. When you understand your values and make decisions to prioritize them, you can become motivated,...
A Motivating Way to Measure Progress
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - May 29, 2023 04:28 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhat makes us give up when we want to learn something new? We start out really motivated. We envision ourselves mastering the skill - dancing, budgeting, whatever it is. And then we start applying it... And we realize we have a long way to go to master this skill. We see how far off we...
Being Before Doing: The Key to True Behavior Change
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - May 22, 2023 06:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIf knowledge was the only thing preventing us from taking action, we would all be a lot healthier and manage our time better. But that's not the way it works. We know many things - like that we need to get more sleep. But knowing doesn't mean we will get more sleep. Before we are able to...
The True Humanitarian Leader
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - May 15, 2023 06:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWe say we are humanitarians. That we help people. But would a true humanitarian prioritize results over their team? This is unfortunately what many of us do. We say we are too busy to coach or work with developing our teams. Too busy on proposals or attending meetings that lead nowhere....
What Do YOU Want?
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - May 08, 2023 03:49 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWe are told by a lot of external sources what we SHOULD want in life and work. For example, social media tells us what we should be doing, how we should be thinking. Advertisements tell us what cars we need or food to be fulfilled. Society also tells us what we should want - children, a ho...
A Simple Way to Stop Procrastinating
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - May 01, 2023 04:55 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWe all have times where we procrastinate and put off doing something. Have you ever thought about why? At a simple level it has to do with avoiding a feeling we are having. For example, we feel overwhelm, or anxious or afraid when we think about doing something, and so we choose to do some...
Undervalued Skills That Make a Big Impact
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - April 24, 2023 07:37 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhen you think of skills that are important to list in your CV or resume, you probably think of hard skills. That is, quantifiable or measurable accomplishments. Hard skills are important when it comes to tasks where we do not rely on others. But in team environments and as leaders, soft sk...
What Do They REALLY Want?
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - April 17, 2023 03:07 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhen we first start a conversation with our team member, they may say they want to solve a certain problem. But if we allow them the ability to think things through, sometimes the original problem is not the REAL problem. In other words, what they say they want is not what they REALLY want. ...
Humility Is Empowerment
Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast - April 10, 2023 06:49 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAre you humble? And if you say you're humble---does that make you not humble? We may think we are being humble with our teams. But many aid worker leaders (myself included) have come to define our validity as leaders with the ability to tell our teams what to do. Our ego is tied to our...
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