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Engaging Volunteers Through Social Media

ByJeri Denniston

By Jeri Denniston, Chief Marketing Strategist, Denner Group International Takeaways: Engaging volunteers through social media offers many opportunities to motivate and inspire volunteers to support your organization. Focus on their interests and skill sets to design activities that will engage them more. Last year I wrote a short article about Ten Ways to Engage Staff…

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10 Tips for Successful Virtual Meetings

ByJeri Denniston

Jeri Denniston, Chief Marketing Strategist, Denner Group International   June 2013 Meetings are a necessary part of business whether we like it or not. More and more frequently people are meeting via the computer with counterparts who may be spread across the globe. This requires key skills to ensure these are successful virtual meetings. Some are…

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Make Strategic Management a Game

ByJeri Denniston

By Jeri T Denniston, Chief Marketing Strategist, Denner Group International    11-8-2012 Takeaways: Think of fun, creative ways to engage your staff. Turn your strategic management system into a game everyone wants to play. It’s critical that the boss both communicate AND model the behavior he/she expects of everyone else. In August, I related a story…

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Strategy Execution is Key to Success

ByEric Denniston

By Jeri T Denniston, Chief Marketing Strategist, Denner Group International 2-20-2013 Takeaways: The area where most companies fall short is in strategy execution by not tying individual performance to the key strategies they need to implement. Y-Change provides an organization-wide tool to track projects and strategies across the enterprise, including individual performance. We’ve heard it time…

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Using Systems Thinking to Shift Culture

ByEric Denniston

By Eric A Denniston, Managing Director, Denner Group International    11-18-2011 Takeaways: Systems Thinking is an excellent tool to stay ahead of changes in the world around us. Understanding and applying it in organizations improves communication, reduces unintended consequences, and changes the internal culture. What is Systems Thinking and why should it be important to ALL…

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You Can Cut Costs Without Cutting Jobs

ByJeri Denniston

By Jeri T Denniston, Chief Marketing Strategist, Denner Group International   4-12-2010 Takeaways: Involve your employees as business partners to identify creative ways to cut costs without cutting jobs. let people use their brains. you’ll be amazed at the ideas they’ll generate to cut waste. This is a tip in the book Lead with LUV by…