Relish Your Role
Relish Your Role is hosted by Nancy Fournier Ph.D., Relationship Strategist for Women Nonprofit EDs. This show offers practical guidance and support to women leaders of nonprofit organizations who want to strengthen their many work relationships and regain control over their time. Episodes will cover how to delegate with confidence, inspire your board, develop healthy work habits, and other topics to help you have time to re-energize your creative process and run your agency with authentic power. The show will also provide actionable tips in response to the unique challenges confronting women EDs. Nancy has over 30 years of experience in nonprofit management, board training and executive coaching.
Episodes
29 episodes
29. Getting Buy-In For Your Vision
As a nonprofit Executive Director, you have a vision for your agency and the impact it can make. This episode explores the importance of communicating your vision to all your stakeholders, incorporating their perspectives and concerns to ...
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Episode 29
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Episode 28. Should Staff Attend Board Meetings?
Managing staff and Board relationships is an ongoing concern for a nonprofit Executive Director. There is no one right answer is how staff and Board relationships should be managed- but there are consequences for each decision. This...
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Episode 28
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9:39
27. Executive Time Management; Audit How You Spend Your Time
There are many demands on your time as a nonprofit Executive Director.The way you spend your time in leading your agency sends a powerful message to the rest of the organization.If you are unaware of how you spend your time it is imposs...
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Episode 27
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9:07
Episode 26. Helping Your Board Member Find Their Niche
As a nonprofit Executive Director, you want to get the most out of your Board.Today’s episode explores strengthening your Board involvement- by matching their skills and interests with your agency’s needs.I discuss how to get to know yo...
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Episode 26
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24. Terminating an Employee with Grace
It is never easy to fire someone. We tend to ignore employee problems until things reach the tipping point. This episode takes the fear out of the termination process by outlining the process of responding to employee problems, docu...
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Episode 24
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11:09
Episode 23. Making the Case For an Executive Director Evaluation
You know the importance of annual performance evaluations. They celebrate successes, identify areas for support, and provide a roadmap for professional growth. Sadly most nonprofit Executive Directors rarely receive a thorough and o...
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8:28
22. Six Steps for Providing Meaningful Staff Performance Reviews
It is the end of the year and you are probably deep in completing performance reviews for all your staff. This episode explores six steps that can make performance reviews a meaningful exercise for you and your staff.Given that re...
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Episode 22
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9:31
Episode 21. The Authentic Leadership Challenge for Women in the Nonprofit World
This episode explores the challenges women leaders in the nonprofit face having to balance societal expectations of their behavior with the premium placed on authentic leadership.When our authentic selves as women leaders are constantly jud...
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Episode 21
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6:58
20. Five Steps to Strengthen your Nonprofit’s Leadership Team
Your Leadership team are your eyes and ears to ensure your agency is running smoothly.At the most basic level, this group shares departmental information and receives updates from the Executive Director about recent decisions.But you wa...
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Episode 20
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9:04
19.Finding the Talent to Run Your Nonprofit
The labor shortage is one of the more pressing challenges facing nonprofits in 2023. Staff vacancies create tremendous stress on your existing staff who are asked to do the work of two or three people. It is an unsustainable situation.
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Episode 19
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7:51
18. Five Steps to Manage your Nonprofit Leadership Team
Your leadership team is the engine to make your agency run.When things are going well they are a group of autonomous decision-makers who serve as your eyes and ears allowing you to focus in strategy.But often they bog you down with cont...
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Episode 18
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7:18
Three Tips to Help Nonprofit Directors Break Free From Email
Are you chained to your desk responding to never ending emails?This episodes provides three tips to manage your email and gain control of your time.We explore how to:1. Master the urge to check your emails2.Effectively triage yo...
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Episode 17
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9:53
16. When Your Nonprofit Staff Hates Feedback
We all have staff in our nonprofits which refuse to hear the feedback you provide them to improve their work performance. It is frustrating for you and your team.The goal of our feedback should always be for staff improvement.T...
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Episode 16
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9:41
15. Building Your Support System
This episode provides actionable steps for women nonprofit executive directors on how to create a professional support system. It explores finding an existing group in one's local community, how to create their own group or identifying in...
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Episode 15
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8:28
14. Nonprofit Leaders Need A Support System
The episode explores the primary benefits of a professional support system for nonprofit leaders. Specifically four benefits of having a support system; 1. Sense of belonging, 2.Thought partnerships,3. Improved self-...
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Episode 14
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7:23
13. Staff Morale
As the Executive Director you bear some responsibility for your staff's morale.It has been a tough couple of years in the nonprofit world. It is hard to run a nonprofit agency in 2023. As a woman executive director,...
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Episode 13
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6:23
12. Having Hard Conversations with Your Board Chair
A dirty little secret in the nonprofit world is that boards of directors do not always deliver.Most of the nonprofit women executive directors I work with identify frustrations with their boards as one of their greatest challenges.
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Episode 12
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7:39
11. Getting Your Nonprofit Board Committees to Perform
Today’s episode will focus on your nonprofit Board committees and things you can do as an ED to get those committees focused, with a clear workplan and accountable for delivering to your organization.Getting your Board effectively eng...
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Episode 11
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8:12
10. Perseverance Pep Talk
Today’s episode will look at ways as a nonprofit leader to strengthen your ability to persevere.Perseverance is necessary to be successful as a nonprofit ED.Lately I have been consumed with mastering perseverance and learning what it ta...
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Episode 10
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7:01
9. Making Your Staff Meetings Matter
Staff meetings are a fact of life in the nonprofit world.Your staff meetings provide an opportunity to convey information, solicit ideas, allow for group discussion, problem solve and create a sense of community.With planning and intent...
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8:54
8. Taming Your Time Wasters
We all want more time.Time to complete a project. Time to spend with those we care about. Time to pursue an interest. Time to relax and re-energize.But as much as we crave more time, most of us, especially in our work world, do a ...
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Episode 8
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8:36
7. When There Is No Money For Raises
Your staff is the lifeblood of your agency.They bring passion and skill to their work and make you proud every day.You would do anything to keep them happy in their jobs, so they continue to stay, grow professionally and enhance y...
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Episode 7
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7:35
6. Real Connections with Community Partners
We know that interagency collaboration is best practice and smart businessBut let’s be honest, it can be such a tricky dance working with a partner.You can be one thousand percent committed to collaboration, but it is hard work to...
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Episode 6
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7:19
5. The Unique Challenges for Women Nonprofit Executive Directors
I have been coaching and conducting performance evaluations for nonprofit leaders for over twenty years. Most of the agencies I work with are headed by women. I had this sense that were issues they dealt with which are unique to their gen...
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Episode 5
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