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joannshort21
Apr 19, 20222 min read
April Showers Bring May Flowers
Whether you consider the spring season as an opportunity for growth and rejuvenation or for rototilling the first quarter into the flower...
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joannshort21
Feb 15, 20222 min read
Pandemic Lessons Learned
The pandemic has taught us important lessons for as individuals and for our organizations. Use them to move your organization forward.
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joannshort21
Jan 11, 20222 min read
Embracing the Turmoil
2022 - Two weeks down and 50 to go! If your COVID years have been anything like mine, you’ve experienced real fear, living with the...
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joannshort21
Dec 6, 20212 min read
Insight From a Fortune Cookie Part II
We have the ability to create our destiny and create our own peacefulness through the journey.
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joannshort21
Nov 15, 20212 min read
Insight From a Fortune Cookie
By shouldering responsibility, building character and faith from your team, reap the benefits of trust, acceptance, forgiveness, and trust.
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joannshort21
Oct 6, 20212 min read
Are You Focusing On What You Want?
One of my clients presented me with three issues they have been juggling, expressing them with a tone of frustration. He jumped right to...
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joannshort21
Aug 4, 20212 min read
DEI Work Demands a Cultural Shift. Are You Ready?
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) work is critical for our collective future, whether for an established for-profit corporation or a...
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joannshort21
Jul 22, 20212 min read
Consider the Source
While in high school, I had one particularly influential teacher who would drop little nuggets of life lessons. It wasn’t until I was...
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joannshort21
Jul 7, 20212 min read
Achieving Board Retreat Success
When facilitating a board retreat with one of my clients, I brought them all together to identify and agree upon a new mission statement...
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joannshort21
Jun 19, 20212 min read
A Simple Employment Perk That Makes Financial Sense
Ten years ago, Harvard Business Review reported that leadership coaching was a $1 billion a year industry. Today, it has doubled to $2...
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joannshort21
Jun 1, 20212 min read
My Journey to Simplify Nonprofit
Learn about how Jo Ann Short came to establish her own consulting firm to help leaders of nonprofits.
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joannshort21
May 10, 20213 min read
I Can See Clearly Now - It's Time To Do More
Ten years ago, I packed up our family and moved to New Jersey to become the CEO of the YMCA of Montclair. We moved from Pennsylvania...
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