COACHING FOR SUCCESS

“Bad teams, no one leads. Average teams, coaches lead. But elite teams, players lead.” P.J. Fleck, Minnesota Golden Gophers Coach. For football fans, this is

Board Expectations

Does your Board have a set of expectations for each other? Expectations that all have agreed to be held accountable for, and to hold each

Ethics in Public Sector Service

When you think about ethics in business, many of us are reminded of major stories like the collapse of Enron where they truly lost their

Boards That Matter

Governing Boards have one thing in common whether they are in the business arena, a non-profit enterprise, or the public government sector. That is, change

Why Strategic Plans Fail

Strategic Planning often dies a quiet death as the well-intentioned plans are relegated to a shelf in someone’s office! After having invested hours researching and

Cultivating Values-Based Leaders

Start with the newly elected members. Of all the challenges a governing body faces, assimilating newly elected members into the culture of a successful organization

Election Season is Upon Us

It is a time of renewal. A time to participate in the democratic process. One of the things that makes the United States of America

The Danger of Group Think

An important issue is coming before the governing body that will impact residents, revenues, and capital planning, with potential long term effects. A small group

Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning: Who needs it anyway? The term strategic planning is thrown around so often that everyone should be very familiar with it, but what

Allow me to introduce myself!

After many years in the Private Sector working in sales and management I decided to jump into the Public Sector when my own community was