For most organizations, working with media can be intimidating. Here, we share eight tried and tested tips from years of experience of working with the media, and with input from conservation journalists themselves.
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As a leader, encouraging your team to get vaccinated can be a highly sensitive task that needs tact, understanding, and emotional intelligence. We spoke to two partner organizations that have successfully supported their team to get vaccinated, and here are some of their top tips on how to support your team through the vaccination process.
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Internships are important opportunities for both the individual intern looking to learn and grow as well as for what are often under-resourced and over-stretched organizations in need of extra hands and minds. When done right, internships can be real win-win opportunities where both the intern and the host organization benefit.
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Here we share some advice on how to make performance management less of an HR task and more of an organizational strengthening secret weapon.
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Take care of yourself. Take care of your family, your friends, and your colleagues. Make your well-being and safety a priority; put it on the very top of your to-do list. Here are a few other useful reminders to help you and your team get through this difficult time.
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In the past, recruitment followed a somewhat generic formula: job description → advert → application → shortlist → interview → hire. While aspects of this formula still matter, in our experience at Maliasili and in the experiences of our partners, doing recruitment differently and more creatively garners much better results.
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Maliasili has new people joining our team, and so onboarding is very much on our minds. Whether it’s virtual or in-person, we’ve identified a number of useful strategies to make onboarding informative, useful, and fun. Here we share tips and advice from old and new Maliasili team members on how to effectively bring new colleagues on board.
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Recently a conservation leader’s WhatsApp group was pinging with messages around team communication, coordination, and connection. The group - made up of members from the African Conservation Leadership Network - was sharing their own experiences about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to managing teams and internal communications.
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Are you being too strategic? As we’ve shared recently, strategy is key to organizational success. But strategy alone will only get you so far. It’s the people who execute your strategy who are truly essential to your success. Learn how high performing, effective organizations strike a balance between intimate and strategic interactions.
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It’s earth day and we have some great news... We know a key solution to saving our planet → strong, effective, and more impactful local conservation organizations.
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This week the world celebrated the International Day of Women. Maliasili took this opportunity to connect with Dr. Leela Hazzah, a founder and member of the leadership council of WE Africa (Women for the Environment) to get her views on how organizations can support the growth and development of female leaders - and why that matters.
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We recently asked African conservation leaders we work with what kind of help and support they need right now. We were moved by two comments, both of which remind us that these are exceptionally hard times. While we might be more comfortable with what has become the ‘new normal,’ we need to remember to step back and take time to support ourselves and our teams. Here are some nudges and reminders that might help you support your team and yourself during these hard times.
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Last week Maliasili attempted something we thought we would never do - we held a weeklong online team ‘retreat’ (which we aptly dubbed the ‘non-retreat’). The main takeaway: it worked! While in-person time is invaluable, our virtual experiment was a success and so we asked our team to help us develop some top tips for effective online meetings to share with you:
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"Down, tired, stressed,” these are just some of the ways African conservation leaders described how they’re feeling these days when we spoke to them this week about ‘combating burnout.’ This is how organizational specialist Adam Grant defines burnout: “The heart of burnout is emotional exhaustion — feeling so depleted and drained by your job that you have nothing left to give.”
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