People are on your side
Well, real life people are, anyway. I was helping a friend do job interviews for her NGO last week, and we wanted every candidate to me amazing. We wanted them to come in and blow us away with their competence […]
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Now re-launching: The International Development Careers List
A few years back, I wrote a newsletter and I loved it. It was dedicated entirely to helping people find and keep jobs in the international development sector. It was priced affordably so I knew that no one would be […]
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In praise of difficult conversations
In my coaching practice, I get a lot of versions of this question: how do I talk about something unpleasant without upsetting the person I’m talking to? The answer: you can’t. There is no perfect language that will make a […]
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Back when I worked humanitarian relief
The start of my very first overseas trip as an aid worker, in 2007. I’d done plenty of development work at that point, but this was my first foray into humanitarian response. This is an excerpt from my journal at […]
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A poem for October
October for me is the season of overwhelm. I’m the daughter of a college professor and now the mom of two kids, so the academic year has always been my life cycle. October is when you’re through the easy start […]
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I wrote about coaching for the TED fellows blog. Fun fact – the TED Fellows blog is on Medium, which is usually blocked in Egypt. So I haven’t actually seen the post. Here’s hoping they didn’t do anything crazy to […]
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