by Suzanne Bakker | Jul 14, 2023 | Practical Labour Law & HR
One of the things that most nonprofit leaders and team members find hard is setting healthy boundaries and sticking with them. In a way, it’s part of taking hard decisions. What are hard decisions? Hard decisions are for instance decisions to say no to toxic mantras...
by Suzanne Bakker | Apr 3, 2022 | Practical Labour Law & HR
As a leader you are responsible that your team has a safe place to work from. This can only work if the team members feel owners of this effort, too (see also my post on unwanted behaviour). But another important requirement is to have mechanisms in place that help...
by Suzanne Bakker | Mar 27, 2022 | Practical Labour Law & HR
How can you help your team acquire knowledge and skills they need to plan work and set boundaries? To learn new knowledge and feel accomplished as a person? To learn new skills and have more variety in the work? Learning can be so helpful, inspiring and motivating....
by Suzanne Bakker | Mar 20, 2022 | Practical Labour Law & HR
If you manage a nonprofit team, you know that one of the biggest challenges in managing such teams is people who work too hard. I think this is easily the biggest problem and quite challenging to handle. But handle it you must. Because people who cannot stop working...
by Suzanne Bakker | Mar 13, 2022 | Practical Labour Law & HR
Clear communication is super important in building and keeping trust in your team. And also between your organization and the outside world: your target group, key stakeholders and (funding) partners. Clear communication becomes exponentially more important as the...
