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Blogposts on Leading Staff
The following articles first appeared in the Alvarez Porter Group newsletter “Choices”
Ignite your senior team
Ignite the talent and energy of your people The Ignite program is available now to unions and nonprofits interested in developing their managers and senior teams to meet the moment on equity, development-centered, and results-focused leadership of people and teams. If you ... read more
Leading with Hope & Resilience
After a full year of COVID 19 and its impacts . . . As we continue to suffer and witness suffering and as we continue to expose and witness inequities and hate, we need leaders who are calm, clear, equitable, and ... read more
Want more feedback?
Ask for it. And if you have trouble asking, now's your chance to get better at receiving feedback. The number one way to increase the amount of feedback in your organization is to develop a culture of ASKING for feedback. Many organizations invest in ... read more
Leading Movement Staff in Tumultuous Times
In moments of great threat and great possibility tensions can be heightened. The pressure to adapt to change, tighten belts and take effective action exacerbates issues that may have been dormant. If you are experiencing this just know it is part ... read more
5 Best Tools for Online Collaboration
As travel budgets tighten and the need for collaboration increases, you are probably spending more of your time on conference calls, reading emails, and feeling disconnected from your team. This does not have to happen! There are many easy-to-use online tools for ... read more
Putting R Before T - It’s How S**t Gets Done
You are juggling your “usual” workday, which seems more and more hectic. The only way to get through everything seems to be with back-to-back meetings. Your head is down, your neck is tight, and you disengaged hours ago. You blindly ... read more
Toxic Employee Behaviors and What to Do About Them
Do you have a co-worker who brings down the morale of the team? Does your office sometimes feel like a battleground of "us" vs. "them"? Are you tired of trying to please people who fault everything you do? If you answered yes to ... read more
The Art of Receiving Feedback
If receiving feedback were as simple as listening to what people have to tell us and making necessary adjustments, we would all be so much wiser than we are. The unfortunate side effect of how our brains work, however, is ... read more
Annual Staff Evaluations Fail to Make the Grade
I don't usually turn to corporate America for what works in managing staff, but in this case, they might be on to something. As reported in the New York Times, Deloitte Consulting and the Wall Street Journal companies are moving away from traditional ... read more
The Importance of Getting Beneath Our Common Ground
At two separate retreats this week I had the powerful experience – and the privilege – of being with groups as they got to know each other on a deeper level than they had before. These were people who in ... read more