Tag: Quaker A-Z
Part of MBS’s Quaker A-Z series. Published bi-weekly on an annual theme throughout the calendar year.
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Quaker A-Z: F is for Finding and being Found
Get found! How easily can your organisation be found? This is a vital element of attracting new members and hirers.
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Quaker A-Z: E is for Everyone?
Everyone? In February and March we celebrate, not everyone, but individual groups of society. Wendrie talks this week about the importance of being inclusive.
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Quaker A-Z: D is for Doing it Together
D is for – Doing it together. Wendrie shares insights into bringing communities together for the greater cause.
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Quaker A-Z: C is for Clearness & Committee
Communication can sometimes get muddled, this week Wendrie introduces us to Clearness Committees.
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Quaker A-Z: B is for Books
Photo by Jonas Jacobsson on Unsplash Books… B is for Books. For goodness sake, write it down! In this blog, we are taking inspiration from John McCutcheon’s storytelling folk songs: “Write it down so we’ll remember What is was we said I believe we really need to Summarize what we’ve agreed to Pass that paper
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Quaker A-Z: A is for Accountability & Authority
Accountability Counts Both Ways I find many people find these two words hard to deal with, especially Authority, ‘Quakers don’t deal well with authority’, ‘I don’t like authority’, or ‘I don’t want authority’ I get told. When I ask about Accountability – they often tell me they don’t like that for them. However they often
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Quaker A-Z: 2025 Introduction
Introducing Our A-Z Series for 2025 Exploring Communication, Collaboration, and Community – One Letter at a Time As we step into 2025, we’re excited to unveil our new bi-weekly blog series: the A-Z of Communication, Collaboration, and Community. This year, we’ll be diving into 26 powerful words – one for each letter of the alphabet
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Quaker A-Z: Z is for Zeal, Zest & Zen
Z words can be tricky After all, there are only between 426 (Scrabble dictionary) and 693 (Word Finder site) words beginning with Z in English. This is why I am going for Zeal, Zest and Zen. Plus, for each A-Z series, by the time I get to Z, it is not only the end of
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Quaker A-Z: Y is for Yarn
A Good Yarn Firstly, in the last couple of A-Z blogs I’ve talked about reviewing your organisation and how you communicate with each other and further afield. Following this, I will refocus this time and talk about oral or verbal history and how that can enhance the meeting. In the last few years, I’ve been
