Working in the charity sector feels like a never-ending list of to-dos. There is always more that can be done; more supporting, more campaigning, more fundraising, more developing. This perspective, which permeates the sector, keeps us in ‘perpetually busy’ mode. We’re always on, always moving, always doing. And with that action we …
Happy September. It’s gorgeous here on the south coast today: still and sunny. ‘Should I stay or should I go’ was a constant question for me when working in the not-for-profit sector. There were plus points and negative points about working in the roles I did, and I was regularly engaged in …
Workplaces have a culture. There are unspoken rules about how you interact with colleagues, how you show up in meetings, how far you might go in sharing new ideas, and how much you speak out about things that concern you. There are rules. And often those rules go unexamined, or if they …
Our brilliant Bird associate Elloa Atkinson sent me a groundbreaking book yesterday. It’s called Reinventing Organisations (I recommend the illustrated version) and talks about the next paradigm of work. I am out of my mind with excitement about this book. It shares, that what we’re looking at in future is workplaces that are no longer …
At Bird, we understand the current wellbeing and resiliency challenges the not-for-profit sector is experiencing. Purposeful work tends to attract empathic, passionate, emotionally intelligent individuals, who often find themselves taking on emotional responsibility for others. Over time, such empathic, passionate and emotionally intelligent individuals can lose resilience. This unfortunately leads to burnout, …
