I’ve been consulting with a local non-profit organization over the past 12 months. After initially doing an assessment of needs (identifying issues with resiliency) we determined a course of action would be to complete their strategic plan (started in 2018). By doing so, they would have a 3 year flexible plan to help build their […]
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Recently someone shared how they use avatars or characters in an elearning course. Some of the uses were: Yes, these are creative and scalable but my first thought was how… as in how did we get here??? and Is this really better than say: We’d really choose to have our employees create and others complete courses
Transparency and openness are simply invitations. Transparency is an invitation to see how the sausage is made so to speak and Openness is an invitation to help make the sausage. Today, to “see how the sausage is made” is a metaphor regarding business practices. There was a time however in the US where this phrasing
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Rich Millington of FeverBee (an online community management consultancy) recently wrote a great post titled Gathering Great UX Feedback. I found it great not because of the UX piece but because he listed a few relatable observations made when users engage with community platforms. He noted: We usually discover: Members don’t navigate through the site
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Years ago I read and loved Henry Mintzberg’s article Companies as Communities. It was warm and humanistic, the utopia for an organization. The problem was/is that it’s not happening. One of the biggest reasons isn’t because companies don’t care about people, it’s that companies care more about profitability and growth, and today, mere survival. People are
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