Your chamber or nonprofit organization has decided to engage in a referendum campaign. Whether you are marketing only to those affiliated with your organization, doing a get-out-the-vote campaign, or executing a community-wide influence campaign, you will need messaging, a team, and marketing to win. Messaging WIIFM (what’s in it for me) is alive and well […]

I was recently facilitating a workshop for a c-suite team of an organization and, in a discussion around what qualities of leadership were critical for team success, the importance of executive presence was identified. Even though all felt it was an imperative, what quickly emerged was the lack of a singular definition to could guide […]

Yes, you’re communicating with your board members. There is a regular flow of information being shared. But are your efforts effective? Two signals your communication isn’t working are when your emails aren’t being responded to and those reports you’ve worked so hard on to prepare, obviously aren’t being read. Poor communication is what board members […]

There has been a lot of conversation around resilience lately, but do we really understand what this means? Now that we have added surviving Global Pandemics and Natural Disasters to our work resumes, let’s take some time to focus on the health of the inside of our organizations. Resilience in the workplace can help people […]

I grew up in a rural state and greatly loved my childhood. My neighborhood was filled with children my age, so there was always a playmate just a simple doorbell ring away. I grew up in a military community and learned in my adulthood this employer is what exposed me to diversity in my youth. […]