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The pandemic has highlighted the role schools play in providing stability for many Polk County families. Recently, I met with Susan Copeland who has served as the Executive Director of the Polk Education Foundation (PEF) since 2005, to talk about leading through...
Originally published on Forbes.com December 2020 2020 was a year of unprecedented change, volatility, and unpredictability - a time when emotions ran high, an epidemic of workplace stress reached a tipping point, and employee burnout was at an all-time high. Nearly...
When it comes to leadership and giving back to her community, there is not much that Teresa Martinez has not done. Arriving in Polk County in the early 1970s as an exile from the oppressive communist regime in Cuba, Teresa has made her mark on our county in numerous...
As Director of Government & Public Policy Affairs for The Mosaic Company, Callie Neslund is responsible for building and nurturing relationships with communities, business leaders and elected officials while providing leadership and executive counsel on public...
Back to school has always been Dr. Melody Rider’s favorite time of year. As a life-long learner, an education administrator for over 20 years, and a college president for 16 of those years, Dr. Rider has always found that there is something special about the start of...
A bachelor’s degree in Architecture may have led to a career in building homes or offices, but Nicole Travis is using her background in community development, project management, and strategic planning to build our community. As Lakeland’s Director of Community &...
As we wrap up International Coaching Week 2020, I’m proud to be part of a worldwide community of nearly 35,000 professional coaches. The ways in which we are serving our clients is more important than ever these days. Over the past week, I have shared the “Top Five...
The scale of COVID-19’s local and global impact to date is extraordinary, and its future aftermath is yet to be seen. Organizations of all sizes are simultaneously acclimating to this unexpected abnormal period of time while charting a course for an unpredictable new...
Let's face it. The last few months have been anything but normal. Leaders have made a rushed conversion to remote working teams and managed the complexities of overseeing newly distanced employees. And just as the routines of remote work started to stabilize,...
Now that many of you are adapting to working from home and virtually managing team members has become a very necessary fact of life, we are offering some practical tips to lay the foundation for maintaining engaged, emotionally connected, and highly effective teams in...
Whether your teams are reconvening in person, continuing to work virtually, or are navigating a new hybrid work environment, making time to refocus on team relationships, purpose and collective goals is a wise investment.
While Nicole is relentless in her pursuit of sustainable economic growth in our city, she is passionate about creating a culturally inclusive and welcoming community.
Taking steps to ensure that a high-performance culture is present in your organization is crucial to staying competitive in today’s business climate
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Change can be difficult and people often resist it. If your team is not prepared for change, keeping up with the pace of change, and willing to embrace change, your organization risks becoming irrelevant. This guide is intended to provide a framework for intentionally talking about the change you want to create, ensure the roles that are vital to the change process are clearly understood, and to define the conditions necessary for creating intelligent change.