coaching for clarity and courage
If you have to pay to volunteer, it’s not employment experience, it’s tourism. No one cares about tourism on your resume. It’s also no particularly useful to the organization – beyond the fee you pay. If your work was useful, […]
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Sometimes – more often than I want – I have to disappoint my career consulting clients. I hate it. But I am coming around slowly to the idea that my job is to tell people the truth so they can […]
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To whoever came by my site over the weekend and read all the posts about Peace Corps. I offer five-dollar coaching to all current and recently returned PCVs (yes, even if you ET’d). You are idealists doing something hard […]
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Some strongly recommended readings on interconnection and unexpected consequences. Nudges that Fail. Cass Sunstein, in Behavioural Public Policy, Volume 1, Issue 1 May 2017. Can Only the Super-Rich Save Us? If We Believe That, Our Democratic Experiment is Doomed, from Nonprofit […]
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It turns out there are actually three kinds of empathy, and they all have different effects on the way you interact with people. Cognitive empathy is the understanding of how other people think. You are able to genuinely comprehend the […]
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You show disrespect for host country staff. These people have been in country their whole lives, most of them have been doing this work longer than you, and their language skills are much more impressive. In a crisis, they will […]
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That title is clickbait. There are no magic questions. However, these are three good questions to ask at an interview. They’ll impress your interviewers and give you good information about the job and the organization. Why is the job vacant? […]
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I received press releases about these two initiatives, and they both sound genuinely intriguing. If I wasn’t so busy right now, I’d follow up to find our more. First, we have medical remote education. Efforts like this are going to […]
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Five years ago, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, I wanted to dye Easter eggs with my kids. It was a couple days before the holiday. I had the food coloring and the vinegar, but I needed eggs. Eggs in Tajikistan come in a […]
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Rojava is a region in Northern Syria under Kurdish control and governed according to the ideas of Abdullah Öcalan, a Kurdish nationalist leader who believes that “a country can’t be free unless the women are free.” His belief in women’s […]
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If you’re like most of the people I know, you’re desperately worried and afraid. And you feel helpless. What the hell does any individual person do about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? I’ll start with what not to do. Stay off […]
I refuse to live in fear forever is the kind of thing you say when your life has been so comfortable you’ve never had to look at the world straight on In my own community I keep hearing people say, […]
A lot of American systems were one big shock away from disaster and this is that disaster 1. A lot of American systems were one big shock away from disaster and this is that disaster. Healthcare, but also public education, […]