Video Presentation of Preparing for Controversy in the Fog of (Culture) War Approximate Read Time: ~3 minutes ONE LAST TIME...WE VALUE YOUR HELP Two weeks ago, we launched a very brief survey about our new e-learning program. The survey is about to close, and we would love for you to participate. First, we’d like to …
When Strategic Planning Meets Reality
Approximate Read Time: ~5 minutes But First…We Need Your Help Last week we launched a very brief survey about our e-learning program and would love for you to participate. We appreciate all of the responses we’ve received so far. Your feedback is very important to the success of this research. Your participation: The online survey …
How to Recover from Strategic Planning
Approximate Read Time: <5 minutes If you are not a fan of strategic planning, join the club. It’s a big club. Just the name “strategic planning” is enough to put some people to sleep, cause others to start pulling out their hair, or cause others to pull out the hair of nearby sleeping people. Really…what …
Strategy Planning Can Be Good for Mental Health?!?
Approximate Read Time: <5 minutes We can hear the outcry now: “What? Seriously!?! Strategic planning drives me crazy! I can’t think of anything worse for my mental health!” Okay, look, not everyone enjoys strategy planning as much as we do. But hold with us for a minute and think about this: What if strategy planning …
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Embracing Your New Normal
Approximate Read Time: <6 minute In the Spring of 2020, we completed our last strategy planning contract with an organization. Throughout the pandemic we not only refused strategy planning contracts, but we also dissuaded organizations from undertaking strategy planning. When some of our business depends on strategy planning… How crazy was that? That’s a …
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 video plays. To learn more about the …
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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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 …