Before you take a look through this week, I just wanted to flag up that a couple of the features include issues of loss, death and dying. It’s obviously your choice if you click through but if you do please take care of yourself.
New edition of a great toolkit
The Centre for Charity Effectiveness have just published a new edition of their great Tools for Success toolkit helping charities to look at seven big questions
- Are we legal?
- Can we demonstrate accountability?
- Do we know where we are going?
- Are we efficient and effective in meeting our objectives?
- Have we got the financial resources to meet our obligations?
- Have we got the right people and skills?
- Do we work well with others?
A great resource, especially if you are a bit stuck in your business planning or you are looking to have some strategic conversations with your board.
Get comfortable failing
…our success at adopting a new habit depends on our willingness to be bad at it at first.
Four useful techniques for getting comfortable with learning new habits that I will be trying out.
The History of the Whiteboard and Ideation
Fun history of whiteboards, for the consulting nerds among our readership!
Closing down a programme or service well
We have written before about the value in ending well. This free online seminar includes the great team from Stewarding Loss.
Dying Well
Clair was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in 2018. She died at the end of January. She described her twitter diary and blogs as her retirement project as she advocated for better palliative care and the normalisation of talking about death and dying. Her courage changed me.
No You’re Not
A sensitive and delicate portrayal of autistic women, by photographer Rosie Barnes (commissioned by The Wellcome Collection).
For too many years there has been a persistent untruth that autism is rare in girls and women. The use of classic autistic male characteristics for diagnostic parameters has meant that generations of women have been overlooked and often arrive at a diagnosis decades after their male counterparts.