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Upskilling after moving up: What to focus on after a promotion to leading your organization
I went looking for helpful posts for leaders who have recently–or are about to–move into a new role in the business they currently work...
Christine Hudson
Jan 232 min read
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A Blueprint for Facilitating Non-profit Strategy Offsites
Case Study: Animal Friends Alliance Goals: Amazing Organizational Results AND HAPPIER DOGS & CATS TOO Both of The Welcome Elephant...
Ronica & Christine
Nov 14, 20237 min read
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Invest in your Bench: Add Skills Training to Everyday Meetings
We have a new workshop available to help you invest in your leaders, every day, in every meeting.
Ronica & Christine
Oct 6, 20234 min read
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Raising the Bench at Grace Hopper
Last week, I had the incredible experience of attending–and speaking at–my first Grace Hopper Celebration #GHC conference. It was...
Ronica Roth
Oct 3, 20231 min read
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Raising the Bench in Big Mtgs: Practicing Personal Responsibility While Creating Better Mtg Outcomes
In a previous post, we began to provide preventative measures and remedies for an example quarterly steering meeting that was off to a...
Ronica & Christine
Jun 29, 202312 min read
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Everyday Meeting Series #2: Adding Leadership Skills Training to Everyday Meetings
If your meetings are already going pretty well (see the previous post on Adding Facilitation to Improve Everyday Meetings), you can focus...
Ronica & Christine
Jun 15, 20232 min read
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Everyday Meeting Series #1: Adding Facilitation to Improve Everyday Meetings
As a precursor to adding training to everyday meetings, you often need to add some thoughtful structure and facilitation. This post shows...
Ronica & Christine
May 30, 20234 min read
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Raising the Bench in Big Meetings: Off to a great start–before the meeting begins
In our last post, Quarterly Steering: Off to a Rough Start, we analyzed a hypothetical quarterly steering meeting that was off to a rough...
Ronica & Christine
May 16, 20235 min read
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Raising the Bench in Big Meetings: Off to a Rough Start
We will soon lead a conference workshop on how to add leadership training to everything from small everyday meetings to big off-sites. We...
Ronica & Christine
May 4, 20233 min read
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The Power of Empathy in Meeting Design
When we prepare to facilitate critical leadership meetings like strategy offsites or portfolio steering, we ask you to commit to...
Ronica & Christine
Dec 2, 20224 min read
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Welcome to The Welcome Elephant
Welcome! We created The Welcome Elephant so we can continue to help leaders build great cultures where happier humans create better...
Ronica & Christine
Oct 17, 20221 min read
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Why the Elephant?
The Elephant connects to several aspects of our work and mission. We facilitate transparent and honest meetings that create cultural...
Ronica & Christine
Oct 14, 20226 min read
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