InterAction NGO Futures Digest: January 20, 2022
InterAction’s NGO Futures initiative accelerates NGOs’ ability to adapt, evolve, and affect sustainable change through offerings, including Futures Digest. Nominate content to NGO Futures program director Deborah Willig. Collaboration encouraged.
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DevEx editor Raj Kumar shares five trends shaping global development this year. Localization is changing in important ways. Climate is a cross-cutting theme bringing together “us” and “them.” Billionaire giving is growing. As technology expands across development projects, values-based governance such as personal data protection becomes ever more important. Attention on Covid and malaria vaccines creates a chance to strengthen broader health systems investment.
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Digital and mobile technology is expanding faster than streams of mis- and disinformation can be managed. InterAction’s Disinformation Toolkit 2.0 is live and here with tools, guides, and resources to help NGOs when they become targets of such campaigns. Open the Toolkit to also learn why disinformation is a problem now, how it is being used against the sector, and how it can drive societal conflict.
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Leaders underestimate the difficulty of establishing trust across virtual teams—which hurts motivation and makes conflict and tension harder to manage. Top tips from an InterAction workshop on virtual team leadership essentials.
- Emphasize synchronous conversations that include audiovisual, expanding communications cues.
- Supplement the task orientation of virtual work with energy towards building relationships.
- Hold people accountable for—and acknowledge—performance, countering how unseen people often feel in virtual settings.
- Communicate generously and listen actively to minimize negative interpretations.
- Build clear norms around where, and when, to communicate
Follow these tips to support team cohesion and—hopefully—strengthen team success.
Successful change requires effective leadership—including strong sponsors of the change. Change advisory firm Conner Advisory shares Characteristics of Effective Sponsorship in its recent research paper. Leader tips include
- Strong, decisive mindset—influenced by various viewpoints–not consensus.
- Good ideas must be released to create space for crucial imperatives.
- Leaders must unite around a common set of objectives and foster team trust.
Specific mindsets and behaviors dramatically improve success of major organizational change in a challenging environment.
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Five-Day Challenge: Five Steps to Turbo Charge Your Virtual Team Leadership
Open now. Start this five-day turbocharge challenge as soon as you dare.
This free, short minicourse from the co-hosts of the InterAction workshop Virtual Team Leadership Essentials teaches specific solutions to pain points of virtual teams in five highly doable steps to strengthen team performance, effectively deal with conflict, and recharge. Register here.
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