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• Move from employee engagement to organizational alignment for increased…

  Art Johnson Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Employee engagement has become the standard for understanding how employees feel about working at your organization. Organizational alignment is the next step in evolution beyond engagement. Organizational alignment and employee engagement both have their place, but if you want to see increases in performance and metrics, you want to look at measures that are organizationally focused, not employee focused.

• Determining your company’s value: The problem with business valuation…

  Chris Younger Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  There are numerous business valuation tools and calculators out there that claim to be the best and most accurate way to determine your company’s worth. However, these calculators are not the answer for business owners looking to sell and can be dangerous if used without careful consideration. In this article, we will discuss the pitfalls of business valuation calculators and why owners should explore other methods for determining the value of their business.

• Podcast: The key traits of a successful cash-practice entrepreneur

  Jarod Carter Healthcare Administration

  Jarod Carter is often asked, "What is the key to success as an entrepreneur?" Based on what he’s observed in his own businesses as well as the many other practice owners he’s coached in his Mastermind group, the main factor governing your results is always the perspective you apply as you begin. By mastering the right mindset, you can create a fulfilling opportunity to serve your patients instead of turning yourself into a stressed-out workaholic.

• Self-defense shooting with corrective lenses

  Mike Ox Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  A lot of times, the techniques that we use for plinking and having fun with guns don’t necessarily carry over to self-defense shooting. Take shooting with glasses or contacts as an example. The fact is, we may or may not have our corrective lenses handy when we need to defend ourselves. It may be bifocals, trifocals, correcting astigmatism, monovision, progressives or readers, but roughly three-quarters of Americans wear corrective lenses of one sort or another. That can pose some interesting challenges with shooting … particularly self-defense shooting using traditional iron sights.

• Grade retention: Will it help?

  Howard Margolis Education

  Retention rarely helps struggling learners, especially those with reading disabilities. I’ll say it again: It rarely helps. It often backfires. Combinations of negative feelings abound: Humiliation, bewilderment, anger, despondency, resentment, despair, and so on. Magnify this by the widespread isolation and anxiety caused by COVID-19 and you have a formula for continued despair, resentment, and turmoil.

• Balancing edtech and digital equity during COVID-19 recovery

  Sheilamary Koch Education

  Last year’s epic move to online learning gave educators tangible evidence of how technology can enhance education — and where it falls short. Edtech solutions are expected to remain front and center even as schools transition back to in-person classes. And while the discussion involves the ins and outs of top education technology offerings, it goes much deeper to include issues of identity and student empowerment.

• How to govern more efficiently

  Robert C. Harris Association Management

  In a regional webinar on good governance the chief elected president said, "Bob taught us these practices years ago. We adopted them and now have a more efficient board." When meeting with boards I ask how the governance routines came about. The common answer, "We’ve always done it this way." For example: Why does the board meet every month? Who designed the agenda with more than a dozen reports and updates? How did the board grow to be 28 directors and officers? I thought about the president’s comments about board efficiency. Try these practices to improve governance.

• 6 strategies for integrating arts-based learning into any subject

  Ginger Abbot Education

  Children instinctively take to activities like pantomime and sculpting things out of clay. Arts-based learning takes advantage of their natural tendencies to make the most of their creativity. However, when it comes to how to integrate arts into other subjects, teachers sometimes overlook the power of such activities. Here are six strategies for arts integration in education to add to your lesson plans today.

• When I’m elected president, I’m going to ‘fix’…

  Robert C. Harris Association Management

  Most elected leaders know their role is to advance the mission and serve the membership. Others have their own approach. The best question from an incoming president is, “Where is the strategic plan? My job is to advance the existing plan.” A strategic plan is a multiyear roadmap for successive officers and boards. The document helps stay the course. An incoming president wreaks havoc by ignoring the plan in favor of a personal agenda. I have seen presidents unpack a suitcase full of personal priorities. They have given little thought as to how their interests fit within the existing plan.

• Infographic: How to become an entrepreneur

  Brian Wallace Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  If you go back a few generations in time, entrepreneurs were not all about the glitz and glamor of today. It was actually a looked down upon profession. So, what’s changed in the world? Entrepreneurship only works properly with a contract with society to succeed.

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