Wild Woman Fundraising

Perhaps this has happened to you. You’re doing your work, and suddenly your boss comes over and starts screaming at you.
Then they barge back into their office.

You wonder what just happened. Perhaps you start to cry. Perhaps you yell back. Perhaps you start to search for another job. How can you prevent verbal attacks? How can you stop the verbal attacker in their tracks? How can you make them understand that they are not going to get the rise out of you that they want?

Hi! Thanks for reading this series on how to manage and motivate others by discovering their strengths and helping them find tasks that they can excel in! These descriptions are taken from the book, “Now, Discover your Strengths” by Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton, and I am indebted to them for their years of research [...]

How can you discover your strengths? How do you manage people? Have you taken the Gallup assessment, which was given to over 2 million people, and provided insights on 34 types you might have to manage at work? This can be an invaluable tool as you help people discover their strengths, and focus on these [...]

How can you motivate others? In three words: Strengths based management. What are your strengths? This post should help you. Here’s how it works. People naturally tend to want their autonomy, to want self-direction in their tasks, and to want to use their areas of greatest strength at work. This is based on surveys of [...]

Let’s start with vocabulary. What is a strength? A strength is something that you can visualize yourself doing repeatedly, happily, and successfully. Talents are naturally recurring patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, which make up your strengths. Skills are the steps of an activity, Knowledge is facts and lessons learned. You need a system to [...]

Jamel Debbouze in Amelie

When I saw Amelie in 2001, I loved Jamel Debbouze’s character, Lucien. He overcame the barriers presented to him, and ended up running the fruit and vegetable stall where he had previously been abused and oppressed by the owner for being disabled and for being of a different race. It nearly made me cry, when he was being slapped by the manager. My emotional reaction was a hint that I needed to do something.

Whether you’re working to rescue animals or simply to improve the world, there’s a vocabulary around what you do.

There’s a measure of educating the community in nonprofit, charity and cause related marketing. You tell people what you do, and you tell them why they should care. But have you ever thought about going further, and starting a movement, educating an entire group about the ideas behind what you do?

Isn’t it time we started to talk among ourselves about the ideas that make us get up and go to work every day?

One thing I learned when I was volunteering at nonprofits overseas is that people don’t necessarily need what you think they need.