The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey is a classic that provides an essential roadmap for self direction. Whatever our setting or position may be, we cannot go wrong by developing the 7 habits. They include: Habit 1. Be Proactive. Apply principles of personal vision to decide [...]
Homeboy Industries provides hope, training, and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated men and women, allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of the community. The story in the video below speaks for itself. Learn more about Homeboy Industries: On their information-packed website From their Guidestar [...]
As a positive leader, one of the most important things you can do right now is assure that your organization is strategically aligned for success in 2019. This means assuring that your strategy is clear, your people are engaged, and your infrastructure is designed to support execution. This type [...]
Health equity has emerged a core value for public policy and community health improvement. A key strategy for advancing health equity is to create health opportunity in partnership with the people we serve. Health opportunity has tremendous potential as a mobilizing strategy because virtually every organization can play [...]
Collaboration with other organizations can be a powerful strategy for creating positive impact. The challenge lies in creating partnerships that can yield positive results for the people served as well as the collaborating organizations. This Positive Collaboration Checklist can help assure that your next collaboration is fundamentally aligned to produce [...]
Positive leadership can help you elevate people and performance to accomplish your mission. Positive leadership is a concept that is receiving more attention as people strive to to work together for good in these challenging times. Positive leadership certainly sounds like a good thing, and if it works [...]
Social impact is receiving more attention from mission-based organizations. What does social impact mean, and why is it attracting the spotlight? Social impact can be defined as the impact of an organization or program on the health and well-being of individuals. Conceptually, social impact falls under our broader umbrella of positive [...]
Collaboration is essential for community health improvement. We can improve our chances for success by considering five strategic keys for effective community collaboration. 1. Shared Vision Effective collaboration requires that all partners share a vision of the purpose, scope, culture, design, funding, and success indicators for the project. Ask: How does [...]
Community members have a lot to say about community health. In our experience, these five questions always elicit rich insights about community health improvement.
How can we help people buy into change? This is one of the most common questions we hear from leaders and team members who are trying to help people move in a new direction. Leading change is rarely easy, but we can improve our chances by designing change in ways [...]