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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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Financial managers make understanding the group’s risk tolerance a defining component of their strategy. These conversations are limited to bottom-line issues. For some groups that disruption also offered seeds of opportunity. The conversation can easily devolve into unproductive speculation. No one was exempt.

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International Leadership, Women’s Issues, and Branding—A Conversation With Allison K. Summers, CAE

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Our discussion about the Summit Award launched a wide-ranging conversation. The recognition, the program’s success, and its critical mission are badges of accomplishment for the group. As the executive director, you facilitate an International group that is service-oriented and driven by women. Women who join Zonta are doers.

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Stay the Course Through Changing Weather—Strategic Advice From Association CEOs 

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Our books “Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption” and “An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” summarize those conversations. We thought we could help our colleagues prepare for that disruption by gathering advice from people who greet change as an unexpected advantage. To the organization?

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Rethinking Service Days – Join our Conversation

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I had hoped it would fuel some conversations, which it most certainly did, but it launched conversations not only about service days, rather about many things. Now, as we once again approach a major day of service, let’s continue this conversation. Interested in continuing the conversation with your own community?

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Experts Offer Advice For How To Lead During 2021

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Today, the following expert business and leadership book authors shared their advice for how to effectively lead during 2021. My question to them was: What is your advice for leaders as we enter what is surely to be a challenging 2021 for most businesses? The converse is also true.

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Volunteer with NTEN as a group organizer

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In addition, the online groups connect community members virtually around topics of interest and identity. We prioritize ways to support people finding a peer who does similar work, has tried that same project before, or offers helpful advice. A group of dedicated volunteer organizers lead the Tech Clubs and online groups.

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Lead From the Human Side of Technology

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If you’ve participated in a website redesign or AMS conversion, you know it is not always an easy process for either the experts or the novices, especially when teams are unaccustomed to working across disciplines. Reactions to your advice or feedback often surprise you. You can’t understand why you need to explain yourself so often.