The Small Nonprofit Podcast: Dismantling tokenism with Trish Mandewo

More and more organizations are prioritizing diversity and inclusion as their strategic priorities. But how are organizations actually doing this work? On today’s episode, Trish Mandewo, Founder & CEO at Synergy on Boards Consulting Group and Coquitlam City Councillor, shares...

Service as an expression of love: Bringing loving service back into the workplace

Speaking of love in the boardroom is not standard practice. We tend to shy away from such language when it comes to the large societal structures we live within. The idea that we are expressing love at work, at school,...

Performance excellence through cognitive diversity in the boardroom

Cognitive diversity can simply be defined as inclusion of people who have different information processing styles or problem-solving skills and who can offer unique perspectives because they think differently.   It refers to educational, functional, and mental diversity. Some refer to it...

Avoiding a difficult conversation? 5 Suggestions to make conflict a constructive experience.

Want more conflict resolution tips you can put into practice at your workplace? Watch our free webinar, Do-It-Yourself Conflict Resolution. Click here for details. Avoidance is a common response to dealing with conflict. It makes sense really, it’s the brain’s...

Girls on Boards: An initiative to give young women a voice

CALL TO ACTION: Girls on Boards is recruiting professional women with governance and/or mentorship experience to be Coaches for the 2021-2022 cohort. For more information on the Coaching Program, please check out G(irls)20’s website at https://girls20.org/programs/girls-on-boards. As a University of...

The Small Nonprofit Podcast: Challenging the status quo with Rickesh Lakhani

If things are not broken, why change? But what are some fundamental assumptions and myths that we believe in working in the charitable sector that hinder us from enabling changes and delivering impact? On today’s podcast episode, Rickesh Lakhani, Executive...

Virtual recruitment from posting to onboarding: Tips from CharityVillage

Over the past year, nonprofits across Canada have had to adjust to many new ways of doing business, including hiring. For most organizations, every step in the hiring process has now gone virtual. While this has been a steep learning curve for many, the...

What’s really causing your “Zoom Fatigue”?

Spending our workday at a computer isn’t something new. So why is it that talking to people online is burning us out? If you’re an educator, manager, coach, advisor, or anyone else who has made the switch to remote working...

The Small Nonprofit Podcast: Managing conflict with Claudia Aronowitz

Dealing with conflicts often invokes uneasy feelings or even fear. But healthy debates and conflicts can bring thought diversity and new perspectives to the table. So can we stop avoiding conflict and manage them with more ease and courage? On...

Strategies to create effective workshops in any mode, including in-person and virtual

This past year many people worked very hard to figure out how to do things online that they were used to doing in person. In particular, organizations who were very familiar with holding face-to-face workshops scrambled to quickly gain access...