Stop holding and start sharing
How do you stop “holding” all the stress around uncertainty and unpredictability on your own, and instead, help your people share the load and grow through the experience?
Author Archives: Martyn Drake
Webinar: Strategic yet Agile?
Tuesday 28th February 2023 5pm to 6pm GMT. How can leaders balance the need to be clear and consitent around strategy and plans, while retaining the agility and responsiveness to change course when circumstances shift?
Engaging Strategy
Any strategy is pointless if it can’t be delivered, and the key to delivery is having everyone aligned and engaged, not merely with the tasks they need to perform, but with the objectives you want to achieve.
In search of transforming ideas
“Not all those who wander are lost.” In fact, they might just be about to create or discover something transformational…
Transatlantic Nonprofit CEO Summit
Thursday January 26th 2023, 5pm GMT. Join Martyn at this free, 90 minute virtual conference exclusively for non-profit leaders, featuring some of the best nonprofit consultants from the UK, USA and Canada.
Investing in the future
The government says it has no choice but to go cost-cutting once again, but we don’t have to follow suit, and if we want to see a different outcome, we have no choice but to chart a different course.
Video: Strategies for systems change
Recorded in a live seminar from November 2022, Martyn examines the reasons charities are moving towards systems-based strategies, the benefits and implications, and how any charity can get started on the journey.
Video: The earned income opportunity
Recorded in a live seminar from September 2022, Martyn speaks with leaders from across the charity sector about how to innovate, incubate and scale ideas for commercial income.
A parable of culture change
Stories are incredibly influential, that’s why we use them in fundraising, campaigning and influencing, and parables have power, their whole purpose is to change attitudes – the foundation of organisational culture.
Hidden lessons from the mini budget
To bring most charity visions into reality requires us to fundamentally alter the outcomes of a complex and evolving system that will, quite probably, fight back, so simplistic interventions are unlikely to ever get us the outcomes we want.