23. Paul McKenzie – Three leadership essentials during the pandemic

The pressure on fundraising leaders is greater than ever at the moment, not least, to secure funding to help our charities continue to serve our communities. If you are the leader of a fundraising team, I think you’re going to find this episode insightful and encouraging. It’s an interview with Paul McKenzie, an experienced fundraising leader, and the Executive Director of Fundraising and Communications from Depaul UK. In this, the first half of my conversation with Paul, we explore three things that he believes are disproportionately important for a leader to give their attention to during this crisis. Clearly there are dozens of problems leaders could do to at the moment and that’s precisely why I found it so helpful to hear what Paul prioritises ahead of everything else. In particular, we explore the importance of well-being, trust and a pragmatic approach to communication. If you’d like more powerful strategies to help you raise funds during the crisis – including one chapter on ‘Leadership During the Pandemic’, then I’d love for you to make use of my new free E-book : Power Through The Pandemic – Seven ways to raise high value income, even now. You can download it for FREE here: brightspotfundraising.co.uk/power If you found Episode 23 of this podcast helpful, please do subscribe today, so you won’t miss out on all the other pandemic-challenging episodes we’ve got lined up; and also, I’d be really grateful if you could take a moment to share it on with your colleagues or on social media. If you want to get in touch, Paul and I would love to hear from you – we’re both on Linked In, and on twitter Paul is @scotttallpaul and I’m @woods_rob. Thank you for listening and stay safe.