“Reflective practice is the ability to reflect on one's actions so as to engage in a process of continuous learning” according to Wikipedia.

That continuous learning is a critical component of developing your leadership capacity!

So how do you do self-reflective practice anyhow?

In this episode, I’m going to share two tools to help you!

LINKS:
Episode # 28 - Why self-reflective practice is a MUST for women leaders!
https://www.kathyarcher.com/podcast/28
The download to The Inner Guidance Cycle
https://kathyarcher.lpages.co/guide33/
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ABOUT Kathy:

Hi, I am Leadership Development Coach Kathy Archer. 
I help women leaders ditch survival mode and enjoy impactful leadership!

You do that when you:

• * Develop your CONFIDENCE
• * Maintain your COMPOSURE
• * Lead with INTEGRITY
  
  

FIND ME HERE:

• My Website: kathyarcher.com
• My book - Mastering Confidence
• The Training Library Membership Site
  https://www.kathyarcher.com/library.html
• Twitter @kathydarcher
• Instagram @kathydarcher
• LinkedIn @kathydarcher
• Facebook: @kathydarcher
• ​YouTube: @kathydarcher

We know that relationships are essential in the work we do as nonprofit leaders. Sometimes we seem to forget that as we become overwhelmed with the magnitude of work we have. 

However, when you begin to think of relationships more as an investment than a simple transaction, you can quickly realize how important it is to invest in, develop and create meaningful collaborative relationships.

My guest in this episode, Julia Meadows from Kindful, walks us through many examples of investing in, developing and creating meaning to establish solid collaborative relationships. 

In this episode, you will:

• ​Learn why selling isn't what you may think it is.
• Discover how often you should be selling in your working relationships.
• Ditch the salesperson perspective you might have and embrace selling and communicating to build collaboration!
  
  

LINKS
Contact Julia: julia@kindful.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/meadowsjulia/

Learn more about Kindful

• https://kindful.com/
• https://kindful.com/demo
• https://kindful.com/blog/peer-to-peer-resources/
• https://kindful.com/blog/checklist-phone-fundraising-steps-to-success-for-nonprofits/
  
  

ABOUT Kathy:
Hi, I am Leadership Development Coach Kathy Archer. 
I help women leaders ditch survival mode and enjoy impactful leadership!
You do that when you:

• * Develop your CONFIDENCE
• * Maintain your COMPOSURE
• * Lead with INTEGRITY

 
FIND ME HERE:

• My Website: kathyarcher.com
• My book -Mastering Confidence
• Twitter @kathydarcher
• Instagram @kathydarcher
• LinkedIn @kathydarcher
• Facebook: @kathydarcher
• ​YouTube: @kathydarcher

Effective leaders are courageous, brave and stretch out of their comfort zone, for their own growth and that of their team and their organization. 

In this episode, we will build on what you learned in episode # 22, where you identified what it was like to be in your comfort zone.

Now, you’ll learn three steps to get out of your comfort zone to reach your full potential as a leader!

LINKS
Episode # 21 - Stop settling for good enough!
https://link.chtbl.com/212121

Download the guide sheet: Getting out of your comfort zone
https://www.kathyarcher.com/podcast/22

Download the guide sheet: Identifying your comfort zone here:
https://www.kathyarcher.com/podcast/21

ABOUT Kathy:
Hi, I am Leadership Development Coach Kathy Archer. 
I help women leaders ditch survival mode and enjoy impactful leadership!
You do that when you:

• * Develop your CONFIDENCE
• * Maintain your COMPOSURE
• * Lead with INTEGRITY

 
FIND ME HERE:

• My Website: kathyarcher.com
• My book -Mastering Confidence
• Twitter @kathydarcher
• Instagram @kathydarcher
• LinkedIn @kathydarcher
• Facebook: @kathydarcher
• ​YouTube: @kathydarcher​

If you've ever felt uncomfortable asking for corporate fundraising, negotiating contracts or asking for a raise, you will benefit from today's episode. 

Discover how to have courageous money conversations in 3 easy steps in this episode where I talk to Heather Nelson, the founder of Bridraise.
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A bit about Heather:
Heather loves fundraising, which is why she's been working with charities, volunteers, and donors for more than 20 years. Throughout her career, she's perfected the art of building the bus as she's driving it. She knows how to support charities develop their corporate partner programs as they go, realizing fundraising results while creating the infrastructure to support its growth.
Heather understands the connection between fundraising and marketing and how to unlock the potential for win-win relationships. Tapping into her experience building strategy and recognition programs from the ground up, she applies best practices in corporate fundraising, sponsorships and cause marketing in her consulting work with charities every day.

Learn more and contact Heather Nelson at Bridgeraise here: https://www.bridgeraise.com/
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Join Heather's training: WHAT YOUR BOARD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT CORPORATE FUNDRAISING here: https://www.bridgeraise.com/board-workshop/

ABOUT Kathy:
Hi, I am Leadership Development Coach Kathy Archer. 
I help women leaders ditch survival mode and enjoy impactful leadership!
You do that when you:

• * Develop your CONFIDENCE
• * Maintain your COMPOSURE
• * Lead with INTEGRITY

 
FIND ME HERE:

• My Website: kathyarcher.com
• My book -Mastering Confidence
• Twitter @kathydarcher
• Instagram @kathydarcher
• LinkedIn @kathydarcher
• Facebook: @kathydarcher
• ​YouTube: @kathydarcher

If you think you can, you are halfway there, not just in life, but in leadership as well. 
 
Discover how to think your way to competent leadership with Janice Cunning in this podcast episode for nonprofit women leaders.

Janice Cunning is an experienced fundraising consultant, researcher, and certified professional Co-Active coach (CPCC, PCC) who specializes in nonprofit leadership development.

​Janice combines her coaching skills with 17 years of experience in the nonprofit sector. She was previously a Senior Consultant at KCI, Canada’s largest fundraising consulting firm. In this role, Janice provided coaching to leading university prospect research departments with a focus on strategic planning, teamwork, and communication. Within the firm, she led strategic planning retreats and monthly meetings that focused on innovation and continuous improvement to client services.
 
Learn more about Janice Cunning and Fundraising Leadership at
https://www.fundraisingleadership.org/

LINKS:
Free Guide Sheets: https://www.kathyarcher.com/guides.html
ABOUT ME:
Hi, I am Leadership Development Coach Kathy Archer.
I help women leaders ditch survival mode and enjoy impactful leadership!

You do that when you:
* Develop your CONFIDENCE
* Maintain your COMPOSURE
* Lead with INTEGRITY 

FIND ME HERE:

• My Website: kathyarcher.com
• My book - Mastering Confidence
• Twitter @kathydarcher
• Instagram @kathydarcher
• LinkedIn @kathydarcher
• Facebook: @kathydarcher
• YouTube: @kathydarcher

Leading with integrity, honesty and decisiveness is needed today by our nonprofit women leaders.
We want leaders to be humble, maintain perspective and be fair. 
If you want to be all of these things and more, learn how to develop leadership traits in yourself and become a leader who leads with your strength of character!

LINKS:
Free Guide Sheets: https://www.kathyarcher.com/guides.html
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ABOUT ME:
Hi, I am Leadership Development Coach Kathy Archer.
I help women leaders ditch survival mode and enjoy impactful leadership!
You do that when you:
* Develop your CONFIDENCE
* Maintain your COMPOSURE
* Lead with INTEGRITY

FIND ME HERE:
My Website: kathyarcher.com
My book - Mastering Confidence
Twitter @kathydarcher
Instagram @kathydarcher
LinkedIn @kathydarcher
Facebook: @kathydarcher
YouTube: @kathydarcher

To listen to this episode on your favourite podcast app, CLICK HERE 
​or click the link below to listen to it on this page

Many women leaders try to shut their emotions off, tune them out or leave them at the door.
The problem with that approach is that they will hijack you and you’ll lose your composure.

Learn what emotions are safe to express at work and how to manage them in this episode
Extra resources for emotional control

• How To Control Your Emotions In A Meeting
  
• How Leaders Can Remain Calm During Heated Meetings

ABOUT ME:
Hi, I am Leadership Development Coach Kathy Archer. I help women leaders ditch survival mode and enjoy impactful leadership!
You do that when you:
* Develop your CONFIDENCE
* Maintain your COMPOSURE
* Lead with INTEGRITY

FIND ME HERE:
My Website: kathyarcher.com
My book - Mastering Confidence
Twitter @kathydarcher
Instagram @kathydarcher
LinkedIn @kathydarcher
Facebook: @kathydarcher
YouTube: @kathydarcher

Confidence is what you believe you can do, not what others think you are capable of. Far too often, it's not others that doubt our abilities. Instead, it's what we tell ourselves, that make us doubt our own abilities. That is where Imposter Syndrome can kick in, and you don't want that!
In this episode, you will learn 4 strategies to help boost your confidence.

• Know you can - is all about competent leadership which we learned about in Episode # 7 - Competent Leadership: 2 questions to ask yourself
• Believe you can - is all about managing your mindset to help you remove doubt and replace it with confidence.
• Act like you can - is all about taking courageous steps, which we learned about in Episode # 8 - Courageous leadership begins with vulnerability 
• Stand like you can - is all about using your body posture to release the chemicals in your body that help you feel confident! 

Tune in to learn more!
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LINKS: 
Free Guide Sheets:
https://www.kathyarcher.com/guides.html

ABOUT ME:
Hi, I am Leadership Development Coach Kathy Archer.
I help women leaders ditch survival mode and enjoy impactful leadership!

You do that when you:

• Develop your CONFIDENCE
• Maintain your COMPOSURE
• Lead with INTEGRITY

FIND ME HERE:
My Website:kathyarcher.com
My book -Mastering Confidence
Twitter@kathydarcher
Instagram@kathydarcher
LinkedIn@kathydarcher
Facebook:@kathydarcher
YouTube:@kathydarcher

Successful leaders have high levels of self-confidence. 
We've all seen certain leaders walk into the room, and you can tell that they are confident, self-assured, composed and have got it all together. 
But they did not walk into their leadership role, feeling that confident.
They did not get into that level of courage by hanging out in their comfort zone. 
That leader was first brave. 

• They took risks.
• ​They stepped outside their comfort zone again and again and again and did things that were uncomfortable, awkward, and yes, even scary. 

The more times they push themselves outside of their comfort zone, their comfort zones grew. 
As they stretched out of their comfort zone, they progressively became more confident, bit by bit by bit.

But that is because they were courageous first. 

The challenge is, too many leaders wait to feel confident before they do things. 

In this episode, you'll learn why courage first is essential, and some strategies for how to grow your leadership courage muscle.

LINKS:
Free Guide Sheets: https://www.kathyarcher.com/guides.html
ABOUT ME:
Hi, I am Leadership Development Coach Kathy Archer.
 help women leaders ditch survival mode and enjoy impactful leadership!
You do that when you:
* Develop your CONFIDENCE
* Maintain your COMPOSURE
* Lead with INTEGRITY

FIND ME HERE:
My Website: kathyarcher.com
My book - Mastering Confidence
Twitter @kathydarcher
Instagram @kathydarcher
LinkedIn @kathydarcher
Facebook: @kathydarcher
YouTube: @kathydarcher

Do you ever feel inept in your leadership role? 
For example, are you afraid that you might look stupid or stumble over your words at a meeting?
However:

• Have you ever taken training to speak in public? 
  
• Have you ever had the opportunity to practice speaking in public? Not to actually talk publicly, but practice public speaking with the opportunity to get feedback and grow and develop your skills? 
  

If no, then it's no wonder you feel incompetent at times.

Competent leadership is about:

• Having skills 
  
• Having had the opportunity to learn to use those skills.

In the nonprofit world, however, two problems impact your level of competence as a leader. 

• First, nonprofit leaders often move up the ranks from frontline positions without the accompanying training to go with the advancing role. We move you up from frontline, to the supervisor, to the manager to the coordinator to the director. However, you've never taken the actual training to go with that. 
  
• The second problem is when you do get some training you think you have to know immediately and be able to apply it immediately. When you don't, you take that training, and you still are not entirely competent at it, you beat yourself up.
  

And that's where we feel inept. 
That's where imposter syndrome comes in. 
That's when we start to doubt ourselves, hold ourselves back, limit ourselves and keep ourselves playing small.

Competence is about learning a skill and then practicing a skill.

Two QuestionsIn this episode, we will dig deep into the following two questions to help you consider how you can increase your leadership competence.

1. Have I taken any training on this subject? 
   By training, I mean a course someone taught you at work, you know, mentored you, you read a book, you attended a webinar, maybe you watched a YouTube video, or you listen to a podcast, whatever, doesn't matter. But have I taken any amount of training on this subject? 
   
2. Have I had the opportunity to practice the skill? 
   

The areas of leadership competence we talk about are:

• Organizational development
• How to build a team
• Proposal writing
• Reading financial reports 
• Creating team meetings agendas
• Conflict resolution
• How to deal with your emotions at work
• How to give an effective performance review?
• Effective delegation
• How to apply the company mission statement in your day to day work
• How to lead with integrity

LINKS:
Free Guide Sheets: https://www.kathyarcher.com/guides.html

ABOUT ME:
Hi, I am Leadership Development Coach Kathy Archer.
I help women leaders ditch survival mode and enjoy impactful leadership!
You do that when you:
* Develop your CONFIDENCE
* Maintain your COMPOSURE
* Lead with INTEGRITY
 
FIND ME HERE:
My Website: kathyarcher.com
My book - Mastering Confidence
Twitter @kathydarcher
Instagram @kathydarcher
LinkedIn @kathydarcher
Facebook: @kathydarcher
YouTube: @kathydarcher