


My plan that day was to walk up Gale River Trail to join the Garfield Ridge Trail, and then take the Frost Trail to reach the top of Galehead Mountain, which would be number 31 of the 48 4000-footers. I climbed both Galehead Mountain and Mount Garfield on 19 July, 2017. To skip the description of my ascent of Mt Garfield, and go directly to my reflections on building strong NGO teams, click here. I was determined to bring this learning to ChildFund Australia. Learning-by-doing, from watching others, and from my own mistakes.
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Through my career in the INGO sector, I was fortunate to work in, and lead, teams across the world, and learning a lot about how to build strong, high-performing teams. This time I want to share thoughts about how to build teams, in particular in the context of international non-governmental organizations. Next time I will introduce some of the people I worked with in those teams – in Sydney, Port Moresby, Hanoi, Phnom Penh, Vientiane, and Yangon. I wrote about that last time.Īnd I was also thinking about the other big part of my new job: building strong teams. Picking up the story as I arrived in Sydney in July, 2009, to take up the newly-created position of “International Program Director” for ChildFund Australia, I was thinking a lot about how to build great programs for children and youth. Working in international development during the MDG era: what was it like in the sector as it boomed, and evolved, from the response to the Ethiopian crisis in the mid-1980’s through to the conclusion of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015.I’m describing, in words and images, the ascent of each of these peaks – mostly done solo, but sometimes with a friend or two Climbing all 48 mountains in New Hampshire that are at least 4000 feet tall (1219m), what is called “peak-bagging” by local climbers.I began a new journey nearly two years ago (May, 2016), tracing two long arcs in my life:
