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Nancy’s Questions to Find Your PERFECT Coach Match
Nancy offers these questions to help guide you as you interview potential coaches. As Nancy shares, you’d never try on just one pair of pants - you need to try a few to find the pair that feel exactly right! Do the same with the coach.
At the core, trust yourself. You’ll know - and these questions will help guide you to exactly where you want to be!
Nancy’s Delegation Asssessment
Take this quick assessment - answer with your first thought - and get a sense of how well you’re building and leading your teams AND where you’re unable and/or unwilling to share your power.
Understanding where you are is often the first and most important step to unlocking possibilities!
From 'I Don't Have Time for AI' to “Hold My Beer” - Building AI Fundraising How-To's to Share with Everyone
When a client specifically asked Natalie to use ChatGPT to complete a 30-day, $4M grant, she went from a reluctant skeptic to someone building templates and how-to guides for others.
The Gift of Honest Conversations: Making Transitions Work
Treat folks like the humans they are while still doing what's needed for your organization.
How Good Managers Save Everything: The Not-So-Secret Key to Organizational Success
A practical approach to fixing the management problem that's quietly sabotaging your mission.
Layoffs 101: How to Do a Shitty Thing in the Least Shitty Way Possible
Layoffs are brutal, but how you treat people during the process is what they'll remember forever.
From Drama to Clarity: The Power of Leveling Frameworks
Stop letting performance conversations happen in the dark. Rachel's approach to leveling frameworks transforms the messiest parts of people management—reviews, promotions, feedback—into clear, fair systems that everyone actually understands. No more guessing, no more politics–just clarity.
Hiring with Heart and Strategy: A Process That Works
Knowing what you want is one thing. Actually getting those candidates to apply and running a process that helps you choose the right person is another. Sophia's approach transforms hiring from a chaotic scramble into a systematic, equitable process that saves time, reduces bias, and helps both you and candidates make better decisions.
1:1 Agenda Template
A seriously powerful tool for driving work forward in partnership - with all of the empathy, support, agency and accountability of the best manager-direct report relationship built right into the doc.
1:1s that Actually Work! Building Trust + Driving Results
Jesse Noonan's approach to transforming weekly check-ins from awkward to amazing (with real templates!)
Interviewing: Finding Your People
Helia’s quick take on what really matters - getting the proper role at the right level, aligning the why, AND going deep on defining and finding “your people”.
I Want to Love My Job Again: Why to Get a Coach
When an unexpected opportunity turned into overwhelming isolation, one rural nonprofit leader found themselves shutting down emotionally just to survive
When to Get a Coach: How to Stop Feeling so Alone
Insights from Nancy Fournier, drawn from years helping people recognize when their "shoulders" need to come down and use coaching support.
Good Endings: Reimagining Success Beyond Organizations
What if closing an organization—thoughtfully, intentionally, and with real generosity—can sometimes be the most successful thing we might ever do?
Identifying the Humans Who Will Thrive
A practical guide to identifying and attracting people who will succeed in your unique context.