Not For Profit Organizations - HR & Culture

Not for profit organizations have different HR considerations. In part, their employee tend to be incredibly passionate about the organization's purpose. They'll often sacrifice their own well-being in service of it. And in many cases, they're expected to do it.

Dimple Dhabalia, a lawyer, humanitarian and this week's guest, has a powerful story about what she learned after years of humanitarian service around the world. She burned out, but instead of doing what the rest of us would do, she wrote a book. Her book is called "Tell Me My Story: Challenging the Narrative of Service Before Self." For anyone working in service of people, there is a lot to learn from this thought-provoking conversation about unique consideration of doing HR in NFPs.

For example:

❣️ "Being human is messy. And serving humanity is even messier."

❣️ Systems and culture drive employees to put the organization and their humanitarian service ahead of themselves.

❣️ It isn't all on the organization. Change starts with individuals.

❣️ Ultimately, individuals and organizations have to change together.

❣️ We (and especially women) are taught to give, give, give and that will only take us so far.

Find Dimple through her book: Tell Me My Story: Challenging the Narrative of Service Before Self Or one of her podcasts: Service without Sacrifice: Conversations about Hope & Healing What Would Ted Lasso Do? Her website https://www.rootsintheclouds.com/ Find me, Andrea, https://thehrhub.ca/