Top Ten Reasons to Make Miro Your Whiteboard
Miro is my go to whiteboard to host virtual meetings or actually in-person meetings. I use Miro to do action planning, strategic planning, and community listening sessions. I have helped others use it to plan out their websites, marketing campaigns, and their personal strategic plans. It is quick and easy to learn and onboard. It […]
Are Your Meetings About Quick Agendas or Valuable Outcomes?
When I started working in community development I went to five to ten meetings per week. In community development I work with just about every committee and board that has an impact on the community as a whole. Some meetings were just gab sessions that I was dying to get out of. Others a steady […]
Uncomplicate Your Zoom Meetings: Use These Tips to Engage, Invite Participation, and Be Effective
One month out of the year, I can often be found inside a tractor cab. During October, I harvest corn literally by my husband’s side. He operates the combine, and I pull a grain cart beside him. My regular tractor had to go to the tractor doctor, so I ended up in the model depicted […]
What Are Your Crockpots Thinking
Recently I found out that I’m a bit of a crockpot and can be a quiet voice when I am not confident about the subject of conversation. That doesn’t mean I don’t have thoughts and ideas. It merely means I’m not always johnny on the spot to speak up. I know I have left some […]
Lack of child care costs Nebraskans $745 million per year, according to a report released by First Five Nebraska.
Lack of child care costs Nebraskans $745 million per year, according to a report released by First Five Nebraska. Minus 3 months of my professional career, I have worked for myself. I scheduled work around my children by choice. I never had the challenge of acquiring quality childcare, paying a childcare bill, finding a backup […]
Do Experts Know Everything?
A few years ago, I had the opportunity to participate in Leadership Tomorrow. You spend a year in a melting pot of people from very diverse personal and professional backgrounds. Participants encounter leadership challenges. One such challenge involved toothpicks and marshmallows. The instructions required you to pick a team and build the tallest structure utilizing […]
Slim Budget Marketing
I love a grass roots group or a small nonprofit. These groups are typically beaming with promise, excitement, and enthusiasm. What they lack is typically all the money they need to get where they want to go. Having walked in the shoes of a grass roots group on more than one occasion I wanted to […]
Solve Problems Create Products with Human Centered Design
Recently I had the privilege to work with Carrie Portis and Virginia Hamilton introducing Human Centered Design framework to a cohort of Community Colleges in California. The virtual workshop’s purpose introduced a frame work that focuses on the Human factor of problem solving or product creation. So many times we sit around a table. We […]