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Ideas for Leaders	Merryn Rutledge, Ed. D., Principal, ReVisions LLC

In this issue:

Strategic Planning Brass Tacks | Improving Communication and Decision-making | Managing Change | Other Projects | Resources

Where’s Merryn?

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May 26:
• 2:00-3:30 pm: Online Webinar “Strategic Planning Brass Tacks: A Guide for Nonprofit Leaders”.
Register at http:// www. cctv. org/ civicrm/ event/ info?id=260

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June 9: Vermont Employee Ownership Conference Program
• 1:45 - 3:00 pm: “50 Ways to Improve ESOP Communications” panel and idea jam session.
• 3:15 - 4:30 pm: “Consensus Decision-Making”.
Register at http:// www. veoc. org/ 2010program. html

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July 6 - July 29:
• “Managing Change in Organization” at the University of Vermont.
Register and read the syllabus at http:// www. uvm. edu/ ~summer/ course.php? term=201006&crn=60383

Other Projects

• Advising a national corporation on diversity and inclusion
With Hal Colston of Neighborkeepers (http:// www. neighborkeepers. org)
• Executive coaching
• Designing and facilitating all-company planning for a leading international NGO

Resources

Www.open-sustainability.org is a wiki site full of tools for leading a business. Want to find out more about socially responsible practices? Start on a continuous improvement journey? Have more intentional business practice?

Be as creative as you are with http:// prezi.com web-based software that at last breaks the linear PowerPoint mold and releases more of your “thinking hats.”

Strategic Planning “Brass Tacks”

[Image: Steps] Your leadership is strengthened when you use a strategic plan to guide decision making. Join my webinar “Strategic Planning Brass Tacks: A guide for Nonprofit Leaders”, part of Common Good Vermont’s NGO capacity building series.

Learn how
• Each part of a strategic plan contributes to organizational alignment
• To periodically scan your environment for strategic opportunities
• To write goals that can be tracked
• To use a long term plan to create short term objectives

Improving Communication and Decision-making

How can you improve communication and decision making? Two practices, stated simply, are:
• be intentional about all business practices
• communicate openly and honestly.

At the Vermont Employee Ownership’s (VEOC) annual conference June 9, I will co-present two sessions on these topics.
• “50 Ways to Improve ESOP Communications” is a panel and idea jam session.
• “Consensus Decision-Making” is a practical workshop, with Adam Trott of Collective Copies in Amherst, MA.

This conference is great for non-employee owned companies, too. Register at http:// www. veoc. org/ 2010program.html.

Is “Managing Change” an Oxymoron?

The high percentage of failed change initiatives—70% in one study—might lead us to think so. To beat these odds, you have to know a lot about how parts of the organizational systems interact, what makes people tick, and what makes you tick.

Join me for “Managing Change in Organization”, an engaging summer experience at the University of Vermont. In a lab setting where your own experience is front and center, explore the challenges you face, and “work out” with tools for planning and guiding change.

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connecting leaders to plan strategy & facilitate change

Dr. Merryn Rutledge, Principal
ReVisions LLC 233 Van Patten Parkway Burlington, Vermont 05408

Ph.: (802) 863-7084
Fax: (802) 860-7183
mr@revisions.org
http://www.revisions.org

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