We are delighted to announce that out of 73 organisations monitored this year, Caplor Horizons ranked 10th in the FAIR SHARE Monitor 2023. This means that we have what we considered to be an equitable proportion of women on staff and in leadership roles. The FAIR SHARE Monitor, makes transparent the gap between the proportion of women on staff and the proportion of women in leadership in the social impact sector and holds international organisations accountable to gender equity. For more information, including how to participate in this, please click on the link: FAIR SHARE Monitor 2023.
Sharing insights about our Co-leadership journey: We were recently invited to present at a webinar hosted by FAIRSHARE on co-leadership, along with other organisations in this network. It was energising to share learnings and hear experiences from others. Following this, Clive (Hyland), one of our Advisors, was inspired to make a short video on the neuroscience of feminist leadership. Huge appreciation to Clive! Please click here to watch and here for a paper to learn more about “Feminist Leadership”.
Developing a coaching mindset
Rosie (Bishop) and Lorna (Pearcey), have recently completed a Certificate in Leadership Coaching, accredited by EMCC Global, and led by Tom Battye. On completing this coaching programme, they said:
“This programme has really helped consolidate our learning, over many years, and has enabled us to recognise the significance and impact, coaching, a coaching mindset, and a coaching culture can have in our work”.
Building our coaching offer with our partners, and developing our distinctive approach to coaching, has been an area we have been focusing on, over the last year, led by Iain (Patton), Director of fundraising and Ann (Alder), one of our Advisors. Click here to explore some of our Ripple Papers on coaching. This approach is being adopted more widely by those in the International Development sector in order to ‘do international development differently’.
Building coaching skills across the sector could fundamentally shift power dynamics and create relationships based on equality between international and local team members. The shift in language, from a focus on ‘international experts’ towards ‘locally led solutions’, is a step toward a more balanced understanding of the public policy and social challenges that must be confronted to enable development.
We believe that moving from an 'expert mindset' to a 'coaching mindset', could make a big difference. The coaching mindset is a process of facilitating reflection for individuals and groups to enable them to do their best quality thinking and come to the right solutions for themselves in their context.
It’s about holding others in unconditional positive regard, creating space for thinking, challenging our assumptions, and choosing to be curious instead. It’s about people sharing problems and co-creating solutions. It’s also about observing what we are witnessing and offering feedback with generosity and respect. To read more about how this could impact positively on International Development, click here for an article from Bond.
We are committed to embedding this approach more widely in our work. Watch this space for the launch of our new programme offer!
Changemakers of the week
We would like to celebrate with members of our Caplor community, Sian (Basker) and Madeline (Spinks), Co-CEOs of Data Orchard. They have been listed in NatWest's WISE 100 list of Women in Social Enterprise this year. This carefully selected list brings together the UK's 100 leading women in social enterprise, impact investment and mission-driven business.
Data Orchard combines specialist skills in research, statistics and data with a passion for making the world a better place socially, economically and environmentally. Click here to find out more about their work and programmes.
On winning this award, Sian commented: “I’m honoured and proud that my Co CEO Madeleine Spinks at Data Orchard and I have been named in NatWest’s WISE 100 list of Women in Social Enterprise, and congratulations to all the other inspiring & influential women leading values-driven and mission-driven businesses!” She added: “We’d like to offer a 20% discount to any leaders in Caplor Horizons’ community interested in our data for non-profit leaders course. Just put in CAPLOR20 at the checkout”. For further details of this 5 week programme, starting on 21st June until 19th July, click here.
Quote of the week: “I think realizing that you’re not alone, that you are standing with millions of your sisters around the world is vital.” Malala Yousafzai
Best wishes
Ian, Rosie, Lorna, Kemal and Iain