People & Teams
What’s in it for you: ways to build and run an effective team - where everyone brings their strengths, shares your values, and collectively moves your mission forward.
Management shouldn't feel like choosing between being everyone's friend OR the accountability police. Jesse's one-on-one approach bridges that gap with a simple doc that takes 10 minutes to prep but transforms how your team works together. No more choosing between being liked and being effective!
The team is the foundation of all your things - and getting hiring right makes the difference. Here’s Helia’s quick take on things we’ve learned about what really matters - getting the proper role at the right level, aligning the why, AND going deep on defining and finding “your people”. Very much a personal take!
A rural nonprofit leader’s journey from crisis to coaching to loving their work again shows how the right support can help you find your way back to yourself—and why you don't have to carry it all alone.
Nancy Fournier’s insights, drawn from years working with women in nonprofit and government leadership positions helping them recognize when their "shoulders" need to come down and use coaching support to lead authentically and in their own voice.
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.
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.
Letting someone go is never easy, but avoiding it usually makes things worse. Here's a practical, human-centered approach to handling necessary transitions - one that maintains dignity, offers real choices, and often preserves relationships.
Most organizational problems trace back to one thing - managers who don't know their actual job. Nina Jacinto, a people operations strategist with a decade of layoff and reorg experience, shares her practical approach to fixing the management problem that's quietly sabotaging your mission.
Layoffs are brutal, but how you treat people during the process is what they'll remember forever. Nina Jacinto has managed five layoffs in five years and created "The Layoff Guide: A guide for HR professionals to do a shitty thing in the least shitty way possible" - because the biggest indicator of success isn't whether you avoided the layoff, it's how you handled the humans involved.