3 Powerful Performance Planning Questions You've Never Asked as a Humanitarian and International Development Leader

The Modern Humanitarian and Development Leader: Make a Greater Impact by Creating a High Performance Team while Avoiding Stress and Overwhelm

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Biscuits & Jam Returns on March 4th for Season 6 with The War & Treaty! 1:42

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Join us for the launch of Season 6 of Biscuits & Jam on Tuesday, March 4th, 2025 with The War and Treaty’s Michael and Tanya Trotter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Struggling to make your performance and development plans truly effective?

If you’re finding that traditional planning questions aren’t setting your team up for success, this episode is tailored just for you. We’ll dive into how to tackle common pitfalls in performance and development planning, ensuring your goals are not only achievable but transformative.

By tuning in, you'll discover how to identify and overcome potential obstacles before they derail your plans, pinpoint the specific changes needed to achieve your objectives, and recognize the goals that will truly motivate and impact you and your team.

Don't miss out on these game-changing insights—click play now and revolutionize your approach to performance and development planning!

WHAT IS YOUR LEADERSHIP STYLE?

Want to know how to lead better? It starts by understanding your leadership style. To find out yours, take my free quiz “What Is Your Leadership Style” - you’ll immediately find out your default style, how it may be impacting your team and a few practical ways to become an even better leader. Just click on the link fill out your quiz and click submit.

This podcast empowers international development and humanitarian leaders to achieve high performance teams, fostering diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing, overcoming burnout and overwhelm, while maximizing impact and productivity.

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3 Powerful Performance Planning Questions You've Never Asked as a Humanitarian and International Development Leader

The Modern Humanitarian and Development Leader: Make a Greater Impact by Creating a High Performance Team while Avoiding Stress and Overwhelm

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Struggling to make your performance and development plans truly effective?

Don't miss out on these game-changing insights—click play now and revolutionize your approach to performance and development planning!

WHAT IS YOUR LEADERSHIP STYLE?

57 حلقات

#Non-Profit #Business #Podcasting Education #Self-Improvement #Aid for Aid Workers #Torrey Peace

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Hello, my aspiring modern humanitarian and development leaders. I hope you're having a great week. This is just a quick announcement to let you know that as of today, I am discontinuing the quick quote episodes on Wednesdays. And that might be reversed in the future, but for now, we are going to do one episode a week. And if you are interested in hearing from me twice a week, then I suggest you go and sign up for my biweekly newsletter which you can do by going to my website. Aid for www.aidforaidworkers.com and clicking on sign up for weekly newsletter. One of my mom's favorite sayings is "things never begin when you think they do". So who knows what this opportunity of closing one door may lead to in terms of opening another, but for now, this is a decision that I'm making and yeah, let's see how it goes. So the episodes will be released every Monday and yeah, looking forward to talking to you then. Until then keep evolving. Bye for now.…

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