by Karen Kendrick | Aug 9, 2024 | Learning Mindset, Performance, Success | Evaluation, Fundraising, Performance, Personal Development, Professional Development, Teamwork
If I told you, “You’re a winner!” How would that sit with you? Would it make you feel uncomfortable? Like a fraud? Unsure if you deserved it? So many of us have a messy relationship with success and celebrating our wins. But why is that? Let’s take a moment to reframe...
by Karen Kendrick | Jun 14, 2024 | Attitude, Money, Role of Money, Wealth | Money, Motivation, Personal Development
It can be easy to think that your attitude about money is universal, but in reality, your beliefs are shaped by your life experience. Interestingly, all of us are in a conscious and subconscious relationship with money that we may not even be aware of. One of the...
by Karen Kendrick | Jun 7, 2024 | Communication, Empathy, mistakes, Non-Profit Leadership | Communication, Executive Directors, Leadership, Management, Personal Development
Being a good leader doesn’t mean you have to be perfect. On the contrary, the one top tested behavior when it comes to positively impacting your team’s job satisfaction and plan to stay is your ability to admit when you are wrong. Previously, research across...
by Karen Kendrick | May 15, 2024 | Time Management | Focus, Overworked, Performance, Prioritizing, Self-care, Stress
What does it mean, as a fundraiser, to be productive? Do you hear yourself saying, “I had a great day today – I got so many things done!” It’s so easy to be engulfed by our hustle culture where busyness is a sign of success. Notice how the badge of being a good worker...
by Karen Kendrick | May 1, 2024 | Attitude, Growth, Learning Mindset, Personal Development, perspective, Professional Development, Stress | Conflict, Personal Development, Professional Development, Stress
No one wants to hear that they need an attitude adjustment! But if we’re honest, don’t we all need one on occasion? There is so much going on in our lives and happening in the world, and we can all get stuck only focusing on what’s wrong in a way that spirals us...