Leadership Matters

In this week's episode Dr. G and guests, Dr. Joseph Johnson, Jr., Executive Director of the National Center for Urban Schools, Dr. Alfonso Rodriguez, Director of Training and Staff Development with the Neighborhood House Association in San Diego, CA, and Troy Bell, Local Government and Educational Consultant will continue the dialogue on impact leadership focusing on education. Guests will share what they are doing to advance in their organization's vision and make a critical point of difference in touched lives and systems in the field of education; lessons learned; skills required; strategies they have found to be most essential and catalytic in leading transformational change; and how other educators and sectors can benefit and learn from their journey.

High performing organizations are challenged to create and sustain effective performance practices. What are the challenges and formula’s for success in high performing organizational cultures? Join host Jenni Frumer, her co-host Linda Shoob and guest, Charles (Chuck) Caputo, Chief Program Officer at the Long Island GLBT Services Network. Chuck was the former Director of the Council on Accreditation’s Training Institute where he implemented accreditation and a continuous quality improvement process for the US Marine Corps and US Navy and trained peers to engage successfully in military culture.

One of the first demands of any leader is to develop and articulate a vision of the future that inspires his/her followers to voluntarily engage and invest fully to achieve success. Many would say that task is the easy part. More difficult is figuring out all of the tactics that will need to be deployed to achieve the vision, when those tactics need to be achieved and at what level, communicating progress across the organization, changing direction quickly if the anticipated results aren’t manifested, and keeping every employee on the same page fully understanding how his/her daily contributions make a difference. Join co-hosts John Jeanetta and Dr. Sheryl Gee as the discuss how to make strategy count with Mike Mortell, director of the Strategy Counts Initiative at the Alliance for Children and Families, and the lessons learned from the 20 Strategies Counts organizations and their chief strategy officers.

While the nonprofit and government sectors don’t exist to make money, now more than ever they must be profitable in order to survive. Increasing earned revenue by establishing and growing a sound sales strategy is crucial to this effort. Join John Jeanetta and his guest, Jill Slupe, CEO of Verde Martin, Inc., a sales acceleration firm in Omaha and Chicago that helps for profit, nonprofit, and government entities to launch new markets and products, expand operations, reduce the cost of sales, and improve their bottom lines, as they discuss this timely topic. Learn from Jill as she shares examples where she converted U.S. Air Force operations to for-profit entities, helped a human services agency develop a successful sales strategy for its early childhood education substance abuse prevention curriculum, and assisted a local Humane Society to restructure its pricing and marketing models to not only increase revenue but also move adoptable pets more quickly into loving homes.

Research has documented the positive effects associated with journaling, including the improved ability to form a coherent narrative and enhanced cognitive processing about the way people think about themselves and their relation to others in the world. Given the fact our leadership skills develop as a result of the insights we gain by processing our experiences – both positive and negative – journaling is key strategy for growing as a leader. Leadership guru Peter Drucker said, “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” Nevertheless, few people are successful in taking up and sustaining this powerful practice. Join co-hosts John Jeanetta and Dr. Sheryl Gee as they talk to Dr. John Price, author of three memoirs and English professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, as they discuss strategies to use in developing the habit of journaling.

It has long been understood in the corporate sector that strategic leadership is a critical driver for change and necessary in sustaining an organization’s long-term success. The nonprofit and government sectors’ capacity to provide its services is facing growing pressure with changes in the economy, direction of public policy, transitions in client populations, privatization of services, and growth in competition from for-profit providers. Join Dr. Sheryl Gee, Vice President of Training and Organization Development with the Neighborhood House Association in San Diego, CA, Valerie Wright, CEO, Wright Ideas Unlimited and guest, Carolyn Wright, COO, Wright Ideas Unlimited in West Palm Beach, FL as they discuss responsibilities for leading strategically and how strategic leadership creates vision, shapes change, and cultivates a culture for strategic leaders to emerge. Join us for this conversation to share your tips, ask questions or listen to gain tips on identifying, developing, and sustaining strategic leade

One of Heartland Family Service’s emerging leaders, Shannon Mahnke, was recently honored by the Midlands Business Journal as a “40 Under 40” awardee – a young professional who is making a significant contribution to the community. A human services professional who is passionate about restoring hope to people struggling with mental health issues and addictions, especially women and children, Shannon has been instrumental in creating the only residential treatment facility for pregnant and/or parenting mothers in southwest Iowa where the mothers enter treatment with their children. Recently, Shannon assumed responsibility for leading the agency’s outpatient behavioral health programming in Iowa as well. Join John Jeanetta and Jenni Frumer as they talk to Shannon about her career path, the challenges and opportunities she sees coming down the road in the behavioral healthcare arena, and her ideas for attracting and retaining new talent to work in the field of human services.

Join Co-hosts Jenni Frumer and John Jeanetta as we explore the impact of authentic collaborations, with our guest Scott Greenberg, President and CEO of ComForcare Senior Services. Mr. Greenberg comes from a successful corporate background and has for the past few years been immersed in working closely with nonprofits, partnering around a number of patient-focused and community endeavors. Increasingly, agencies are engaged in strategic collaborations with “unlikely” partners, to build organizational capacity and expand the scope, breadth, depth and reach of services. We will discuss and offer up examples of partnerships based in trust, committed collaborative efforts which focus on the process of building community AND business models for success.

Does your organization’s culture support for your vision, desired performance, and outcomes? Continuing our theme for the month of December on Does Culture Eat Strategy for Lunch? Leadership and Values, Dr. Sheryl Gee, Vice President of Training and Organization Development with the Neighborhood House Association in San Diego, CA; co-host John Jeanetta, Executive Director of Heartland Family Services in Omaha, NE; and Valerie Wright, President and CEO of Wright Ideas based in Palm Beach, FL will discuss strategies for successfully leading and sustaining culture change. The workplace culture touches and influences every person, service, and product delivered to, within, and from an organization. It is a force that when aligned with the organization’s desired vision can provide a remarkable winning edge in accomplishing goals and objectives. Likewise, when not aligned, employees can falter, the organization’s reputation/brand can be tarnished and efforts can be stalled or completely derailed. Join us for t

We often hear how “culture eats strategy for lunch,” a quote typically attributed to leadership guru Peter Drucker, but do we ever stop to consider what it means? Is the message culture is more important than strategy? Or does it mean we, as leaders, tend to pay attention to strategy but fail to invest appropriately in the development of the organizational culture needed to execute the strategy? And if that’s the case, what can we do about it? What is an organizational culture? Can organizational cultures be changed? Join John Jeanetta and Linda Shoob, along with their guest, Joan Morehead, Vice President of Business Enterprise – Transition to Success™, as they discuss this important topic and ways leaders can shape the culture they need to achieve success.

In the workplace, leadership means not only having people follow you. Leadership is about you – how you conduct yourself, how you view yourself, how others perceive you, and the value you deliver to the organization. There are many ways to lead. There is not one path to leadership, but it’s a choice you make as an employee – to be a leader, or be content following – and both options may work, depending upon who you are and where you are, in your career. Join host Jenni Frumer, co-host Linda Shoob and guests William Gillers, Leadership Consultant and Larry Borodkin, Vice President of PRADCO for an exciting discussion about organizational culture, teamwork and the role of leadership.

Seeking strategies for greater leadership and career success? Tune into Leadership Matters for tips on leadership and your success and what your personality has to do with it. Join host Dr. Sheryl Gee, Vice President of Training and Organization Development/InnoVisions with the Neighborhood House Association in San Diego, CA; co-host Jenni Frumer, Associate Executive Director of Alpert Jewish Children & Family Services in West Palm Beach, Florida; and Outreach Director Valerie Wright, CEO of Wright Ideas Unlimited in West Palm Beach, Florida. Join the conversation by emailing or calling in with your questions, challenges, concerns, and comments.

Research has documented the positive effects associated with journaling, including the improved ability to form a coherent narrative and enhanced cognitive processing about the way people think about themselves and their relation to others in the world. Given the fact our leadership skills develop as a result of the insights we gain by processing our experiences – both positive and negative – journaling is key strategy for growing as a leader. Leadership guru Peter Drucker said, “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” Nevertheless, few people are successful in taking up and sustaining this powerful practice. Join co-hosts John Jeanetta and Dr. Sheryl Gee as they talk to Dr. John Price, author of three memoirs and English professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, as they discuss strategies to use in developing the habit of journaling.

Join us for a lively discussion about the issues facing more and more nonprofit human service organizations, as they are often forced to develop strategies for fundraising to enhance revenues to support core programs for children and families. Guests Caren Copening, Chief Development Officer and Neil Newstein, CEO of Alpert Jewish Family & Children’s Service will discuss their experiences in designing and implementing a Development Department with host Jenni Frumer and co-host, John Jeanetta. The challenges, successes, tools and philosophy of developing a culture of fundraising will be explored.

In today’s fast pace “eWorld,” most of us are overwhelmed by the vast number of emails we receive daily and how many we leave sitting in our email inbox—many unopened and unanswered. On this week's episode, Dr. Gee, along with co-host Jenni Frumer, guest host Undraye Howard, and Randal Dean, the author of Taming the E-Mail Blast: 45 Key Strategies for Better Managing Your Email Overload, will discuss ways to increase effectiveness and reduce the amount of time and energy spent managing emails.