Very Nonprofit - Very Real - Irresistibly useful insights for the people side of nonprofit leadership

Very Nonprofit – Very Real is the podcast about the people side of nonprofit leadership. If you lead people in a nonprofit—whether you’re a supervisor, manager, director, or executive—you know this work is satisfying and, at times, incredibly challenging. Leading well isn’t just about programs and outcomes. It’s about people. Hosted by nonprofit leader, educator, best-selling author, and coach, Paula MacLean, this podcast offers irresistibly useful insights you can take to work with you tomorrow.  Each short, practical episode focuses on the real challenges nonprofit leaders face every day, including:  having difficult conversations  supporting and retaining staff hiring for retention giving and receiving feedback  creating productive teams  navigating conflict successfully addressing performance issues  improving motivation and engagement  and many more to come!  No theory. No fluff.  Just grounded, evidence-informed and experience-based guidance distilled from Paula's 40 year career working in and alongside nonprofits. These episodes are designed to be shared, discussed, and used with your teams. Each one is a "mini-training" that will raise the bar of any leader at any level in your nonprofit.  Whether you’re new to leadership or have been doing this work for years, you’ll find ideas, language, and approaches you can use immediately—with your team, in your organization, and in your day-to-day leadership. Because in nonprofits, getting the people side of leadership right really matters!