Very Nonprofit. Very Real Podcast.
New Episode Mondays!The people side of nonprofit leadership.
Short, practical episodes with irresistibly useful insights you can take to work with you tomorrow.
Real Leadership. Real People. Real Challenges.
If you lead people in a nonprofit—whether you’re a supervisor, manager, director, or executive—you know this work is satisfying and, at times, incredibly challenging. Leading well isn’t just about programs and outcomes. It’s about people.
Hosted by nonprofit leader, educator, best-selling author, and coach, Paula MacLean, this podcast offers irresistibly useful insights you can take to work with you tomorrow.
Each short, practical episode focuses on the real challenges nonprofit leaders face every day, including:
- having difficult conversations
- hiring for retention
- supporting and retaining staff
- giving and receiving feedback
- creating productive teams
- navigating conflict
- successfully addressing performance issues
- improving motivation and engagement & more!
No theory. No fluff. Just grounded, evidence-informed and experience-based guidance distilled from Paula's 40 year career working in and alongside nonprofits.
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These episodes are designed to be shared, discussed, and used with your teams. Each one is a "mini-training" that will raise the bar of any leader at any level in your nonprofit.
Whether you’re new to leadership or have been doing this work for years, you’ll find ideas, language, and approaches you can use immediately—with your team, in your organization, and in your day-to-day leadership.