This week we are featuring a snippet on "Whole Community." Each week, until we launch the full Getting Started with the Tenacious Change Approach streaming video course in September, we are featuring a brief video on one of the ten essential operating principles of the Tenacious Change Approach. https://youtu.be/wV8vEK9MQHc To learn more about the full …
Ownership-based Change
Each week, until we launch the full Getting Started with the Tenacious Change Approach streaming video course on September 1, we'll be featuring a brief (about thirty seconds) video on one of the ten essential operating principles. This week it's Ownership-based Change. https://youtu.be/JtLynO3Aqd0 Now, take just a few minutes more to watch the full 20-minute …
Sneak Preview!
On September 1, 2022, Tenacious Change will launch a new interactive streaming video course, Getting Started with the Tenacious Change Approach. Today a 20-minute “sneak preview” video is being launched, besides the 30-second intro video you see here. https://youtu.be/DZRZHYEw95s Closed Captioning available. Just click on "CC" logo when plays. The sneak preview video provides an …
There are No Words
Words have often come easily for me…whether I’m writing or speaking. Today the words are not flowing. Perhaps that is because there really are no words. On May 14th a teenager walked into a grocery store in Buffalo, New York and started shooting. Thirteen people were shot with a high-powered military style weapon. Ten people …
Announcing the Community Change Experience 2022
Tenacious Change is so excited to officially announce the launch of the Community Change Experience being held in Delray Beach, Florida, October 24-27 2022. This unique gathering is being hosted in partnership by EJS Project, Palm Health Foundation, Tamarack Institute, and Tenacious Change. The Core Planning Group from these organizations was convened in late 2019 …
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Community Engagement and the Educational Culture Wars
Most mornings I tune into National Public Radio while having breakfast. Last week I heard this story and I've been thinking about it ever since. The seven-minute NPR story is about the educational culture wars which are currently being waged in a number of states. In the past few weeks, the news has been filled …
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Happy New Year and, uh, Hacky New Year
Tom Klaus here for Tenacious Change. Well, this is embarrassing and a bit irritating. For the New Year, we got hacked. First, it was the Tenacious Change internet-based business phone number (via Skype). Long story. That led to the loss of our business Twitter account. Longer story. Here’s what you need to know to update …
The Mission of a Lifetime: A Holiday Gift of Hope
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us all to move out of our personal and professional comfort zones to try new things. Actually, lots of new things. Mask wearing, elbow or fist bumping, estimating six feet (or two meters) for social distancing, using Zoom, ordering groceries or carryout, and patience are among some of the new …
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A New Change Maker Conversation
Take a few minutes to hang out with Stan Martin of HOPE Buffalo in a new Change Maker Conversation at the Tenacious Change Channel on YouTube. Stan Martin, MM, of HOPE Buffalo and CAI Global received the 2021 Pay It Forward Award Stan Martin is a masterful community engager. In this Change Maker Conversation Stan …
On Trust, Change, and Ownership
I had a lot of positive responses to the recent interview I did with Sharna Fabiano, author of Lead and Follow: The Dance of Inspired Teamwork. While the video has gotten a number of views, viewership is only one way to assess value. More importantly, I have received notes from several people referencing the interview …