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Shared Creativity Amidst Collective Uncertainty
We’ve been feeling it for a while now: We’re living in a unique and challenging time. There’s no need to lay out a reminder of the last few years or provide statistics to prove the point. We know it in our bones. We’re in uncharted waters. At the same time, we at...
How To Make Better Decisions
Leaders spend a lot of time making choices and decisions. We often have to make dozens of them every single day. There can be pain in making a decision—sharing it, people reacting to it, worrying if it was a bad choice—and we often feel we can’t turn back and...
The Magic of a Great Meeting
In many organizations, try saying the word “meeting” and watch as eyes begin to roll. But there is a certain magic to a great meeting, when everyone comes together to elevate each other’s ideas, culminating in a deeper understanding of our collective goals. Equally...
Centering Progress to Grow Impact
Do you journal and reflect on the regular progress of your team? This may be counter to the requirements placed on you to measure how far you are from your output and outcome goals, but it is the only real way to build sustainable motivation within teams to achieve...
The Bridge From ED to CEO
When an executive director shifts to being a chief executive officer, it may sound like just a title change, but there’s more to it than that. With this transition comes a whole set of new capabilities that need to be resourced and developed. And this requires a...
Boards Need To Own Organizational Success
By Carlo Cuesta What’s your greatest value as a board member? Maybe it’s your ability steer your organization away from pitfalls with thoughtful advice gained from years of experience. Or your financial expertise in mitigating organizational risk. Perhaps it’s your...
To Truly Measure Success, We Must Learn Our Metrics
How can we truly evaluate success? It may appear our organization is doing well, at least according to the numbers. To measure our progress, we tend to focus on numerical metrics like numbers of people served, an increase in new donors, or whether we hit our capital...
Strategic Planning’s Dark Night of the Soul
You have a strong mission, a great team, and solid community support. You’re about to undergo a strategic planning process to determine how to take your organization to the next level. But you’re a bit nervous. Developing a plan is a journey that can profoundly impact...
Setting the Course for Innovation – Southern Methodist University
As SMU strives to become a Tier One Research University, Simmons School of Education and Human Development has already achieved this. Learn how the leadership, faculty, and staff embraced interdisciplinary learning and position itself as being a field innovator....
Building a Statewide Collaboration – We Are Water
WE ARE WATER is a unique collaboration among the Minnesota Humanities Center, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the Minnesota Historical Society, and the Minnesota Departments of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources. Learn how these statewide partners...
Building the Next Vision for Craft in America – Center for Craft
Craft is more than an object. Learn how 16 thought leaders from across the country including artists, makers, advocates, organizers, curators, and “accomplices” came together for a rich and deep interdisciplinary exploration of what Craft Can… Center for Craft in...
Your Best Life, Your Way – Disability Hub MN
When the Disability Linkage Line, through the Minnesota Department of Human Services, began to re-envision its services, they centered the voices of hundreds of individuals with disabilities and their families to be a part of the process. Learn how Disability Hub MN...