Invest in Your CAUSE by Investing in YOU with Jessica Verplank
May 7, 2024
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Deputy Director of Kids on Bikes, Jess Verplank, discusses the importance of investing in oneself through coaching in the non-profit world. They explore the transformative power of self-investment, growth mindset, and the impact of executive coaching on personal and professional development.
Investing in executive coaching can lead to personal growth, confidence, and improved leadership skills.
Creating a positive work culture through team bonding activities and self-care initiatives boosts staff morale.
Deep dives
Kids on Bikes: Empowering Youth Through Bicycles
Kids on Bikes, a local nonprofit organization, aims to inspire and empower children to lead active, healthy lives through bicycle activities. They offer after-school and community programs, provide bike education, and gift bikes to kids at the end of sessions to promote health and well-being. By engaging children in biking, they experience empowerment, confidence, and physical activity that positively impact their lives.
Investing in Growth: The Impact of Executive Coaching
Jessica, the deputy director of Kids on Bikes, shares her experience of investing in executive coaching, highlighting its transformative impact on personal and professional growth. Through coaching, Jessica gained confidence, improved communication skills, and learned to provide supportive feedback to her team. The coaching journey helped her redefine her vision, leading to enhanced leadership abilities and a more inspiring work environment.
Shifting Mindsets and Overcoming Burnout
The podcast explores how coaching supported Jessica in shifting mindsets and overcoming burnout commonly experienced in nonprofit leadership. By adopting a growth mindset, focusing on personal care, and fostering open communication within her team, Jessica successfully navigated challenges and improved organizational effectiveness. Coaching encouraged a shift from a scarcity mindset to a mindset of abundance, leading to increased resourcefulness and successful grant acquisitions.
Cultivating a Positive Organizational Culture
Jessica shares strategies implemented at Kids on Bikes to nurture a positive organizational culture, emphasizing well-being and team bonding. Initiatives include paid self-care time for staff, team-building activities like rafting and skiing trips, and conducting staff meetings on bikes to infuse joy into work environments. These efforts resulted in a thriving work atmosphere, boosted staff morale, and enhanced program impacts on the community.
YOUR FINEST HOUR | In this episode of Your Finest Hour, President of the Meta Performance Institute Joseph King Barkley sits down with Deputy Director of Colorado Springs Non-Profit Kids on Bikes Jess Verplank, and her Executive Coach Melissa Caddell.
Kids on Bikes is a nonprofit organization that works to create community and empower all kids to lead healthy, active and happy lives through riding bikes. In today’s conversation, we talk about why Jess made the choice to invest in herself by hiring a coach, why that is so rare, yet so game-changing in service-oriented work, and all of the immense positive change Jess and the entire Kids on Bikes team has experienced as a result. Non-Profit is a demanding, draining, yet immensely fulfilling world to be in - Jess’ story is an acknowledgement that you are never too far away from the place you want to be.
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This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer, Producer Stephen Selnick, and Rob Johnson as Editor and Audio engineer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co
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