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Embracing the Opportunity: Developing Organizational Resilience

Consider the saying, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," those that confront challenges emerge stronger. While facing uncertainty and adversity in 2020, our team built organizational and personal resiliency by pivoting, re-prioritizing, and getting creative throughout the tension. Resilience means staying strong for difficult moments while planning for better times in the future. In ...

2022-06-21T10:55:56-05:00February 3rd, 2021|Blog, Leadership|

Our Role in Community Service: Community Impact Month

We play many roles in our personal lives – as children, colleagues, managers, parents, mentors, role models, the list goes on and on. The same is true with the roles that we share in our community – we are neighbors, customers, members, and volunteers. Our lives are laced together by each of the roles and ...

2022-06-21T13:39:09-05:00September 28th, 2020|Blog, Leadership|

Can You Hear Me? The Age of Video Meetings

Who knew that 2020 would be the year that Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and other video conferencing technologies would become as popular as food delivery services and Uber? Video conferencing has changed the way many are doing business. Even as a financial institution, we embraced video conferencing technology for meeting with our clients and partners, instead ...

2022-06-21T13:39:20-05:00September 16th, 2020|Blog, Leadership|

Minnesota Nice: National Nonprofit Day

The colloquial saying “Minnesota Nice” is often used to describe the behavior of Minnesota residents as being overly courteous and friendly. As we’ve traversed the uncharted waters that 2020 has unfolded, “Minnesota Nice” could be used to describe Minnesotan’s dedication to community support and giving, as the most charitable state in America. Nonprofits play a ...

2022-06-21T13:41:55-05:00August 17th, 2020|Blog, Leadership|

Awareness in Successful Leadership

Similar to what I shared in my last post, awareness in leadership is critical. As a leader, many of us have learned and been taught to build our teams to add expertise. What I have found to be equally important is evaluating team members’ strengths and weaknesses to fill-in and balance ourselves and the team ...

2022-06-21T13:43:40-05:00June 15th, 2020|Blog, Leadership|

Stressful Times Require Team Awareness

Gaining Awareness We all know it, it’s been said many different ways, and so many times – so let me make this short: Our lives, business, and normalcies have entirely changed. So, when our Human Resource and Talent Development Officer, Melissa Deutsch, suggested checking our team status by executing a word cloud, my immediate answer ...

2022-06-21T13:45:29-05:00May 8th, 2020|Blog, Leadership|
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