How to Become a Productivity Ninja - Aid Worker Style
Whether it's managing email, determining which working group meeting to attend or balancing time to respond to our team's needs, as aid workers we need all the help we can get to be able to make deadl...
6 Des 202139min
How to Advance as a Strong Female Leader in a Male Dominated Context - and Other Lessons
In this interview Edna Morris, with forty years' experience in the male dominated restaurant industry, shares some great advice to apply to our field in many of the patriarchal contexts for men and wo...
29 Nov 202145min
Is Your Leadership Style Preventing Community Engagement?
We all engage with communities on some level in our work. But the difference between meaningful engagement and mediocre is the difference between the community adopting new technologies or maintainin...
22 Nov 202148min
How to Maintain a Healthy Diet in the Field
Just when you think you've established a healthy eating routine as an aid worker... you have to travel to the field. Whether it's the community or a field office, eating healthy can be challenging wh...
25 Okt 202126min
How to Maintain Your Health, Survive a Long Distance Relationship and Our Most Significant Habits
ENCORE EPISODE (FROM 2018): This episode is includes advice my husband Shannon and I have based on 32 years' combined experience in the aid worker and humanitarian field. In this episode you can lear...
18 Okt 202130min
How to Focus On Your Strengths as a Leader in Aid Work
We all have our strengths as leaders. You know, the areas in which you feel come naturally to you. Maybe you even enjoy working on them. It could be managing budgets, or helping local partners, or wri...
11 Okt 20217min
How Leaders Can Help End Burnout in the Humanitarian Sector with Dr Gemma Houldey
As humanitarians unfortunately we are likely to have experienced burnout at one time or another. And it was just this experience that inspired today's guest Dr. Gemma Houldey to do a thesis on the sa...
4 Okt 202145min
How to Not Be a Difficult Supervisor
We've all had them in humanitarian work. Given that we spend the majority of our time working or with colleagues, they can make life difficult. And we hope we will never be like them. That's right, ...
27 Sep 202111min
