In October we’ll be heading to The Netherlands to speak at the International Fundraising Congress. One of our workshops is on how to become Fundraising’s most wanted – or any team’s most wanted for that matter.
Sharpstone SkinnerSeptember 29, 2023
Hello All. We first put this piece out in 2020 during the early part of pandemic. Three years on, we noticed a renewed interest in it, with lots of you clicking to read it on our website. It seems to chime with people in the light of the latest set of challenges the economic and political world is throwing at…
Sharpstone SkinnerJuly 17, 2023
It has been said that competition makes us faster but collaboration makes us better. Collaboration means everyone can contribute: you get to use all the experience in your team, not just some of it.
Sharpstone SkinnerJune 20, 2023
A month of 4-day weeks due to national holidays (in the UK at least) is both a joy and a challenge. The joy of the extra day off and the challenge of getting 5 days’ work activity in to 4. After a particularly heavy week of meetings (for us and I suspect many others) it’s worth reflecting on our meeting…
Sharpstone SkinnerMay 19, 2023
As a manager, it can be tricky to get the balance right in your management style. You want to be supportive and helpful to your team but you also want to stretch them. Research has shown that high-performance teams share a common mind-set.
Sharpstone SkinnerApril 12, 2023
Human beings love to categorise, don’t they? When we talk about generations, we are usually referring to our family, who fits where and how we can trace them back. Or we use it to complain about their music. When marketeers talk about generations, they mean people grouped together sharing birth years spanning 15-20 years who share certain characteristics. Based on…
Sharpstone SkinnerMarch 17, 2023
Humans eh? You think we’d have cracked this giving feedback thing by now. We start with the best intentions – give it often, be open to getting it back a bit too – yet when the pressure is on, we forget to make it a priority and fall back on pointing out the flaws in a rush and staying quiet…
Sharpstone SkinnerFebruary 8, 2023
At a recent away day, a team were trying to get a date in the diary for a meeting. Everyone kept saying “I can’t do that date, I’m working.” We were going around in circles until the team’s leader said “We need to rethink our attitude to meetings – when we have a meeting, that IS work!”
Sharpstone SkinnerJanuary 5, 2023
On 4th November we were 25 years old. How did that happen?? In some ways, it seems like a few months ago that we started our consultancy but when we think about it, a lot has happened in our little world of Learning and Development (admittedly not as much as has happened in the wider world even in the last…
Sharpstone SkinnerDecember 1, 2022