Resources
Handpicked books, articles, and tools to help you find insights that you can turn into action. As you enhance your understanding of yourself and your impact on others, turn to these for an added boost of inspiration.
Key Differences Between Coaching and Consulting (And How to Decide What Your Business Needs)
ABOUT COACHING & CONSULTING
Airtable - Works like a spreadsheet but gives you the power of a database to organize anything. Non-profit discount available.
Mindmeister - Tool to facilitate virtual brainstorms and share ideas visually.
Canva - Create designs for web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations, and more. Non-profit discount available.
Upwork - Online freelancing hub for finding designers and copywriters of every style, background, and budget and receive multiple bids.
Flodesk – Intuitive and thoughtfully designed email marketing.
TechSoup – Online marketplace for non-profits to purchase discounted software and hardware.
ONLINE TOOLS FOR PRODUCTIVITY
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek- Most leaders start by talking about what their organization does. But Sinek argues it’s not the what or the how that drives great staff candidates, five star board prospects or funders. It’s the why.
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Dan and Chip Heath- This book will transform the way you communicate. It illustrates the vital principles of winning ideas—and shows how you can apply these rules to making your own messages stick.
Good to Great and the Social Sectors by Jim Collins- It captures in just 40 pages the recipe for taking a good organization to the next level.
Give and Take by Adam Grant – In today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. This is a book about who you want to be in the world.
The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement and Creativity at Work by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer. The book shows how to remove obstacles by activating the two forces that enable progress: catalysts and nourishers, and to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives.
Dare to Lead by Brene Brown - Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas and has the courage to develop that potential.