Flashback to earlier in the pandemic, when most institutions and organizations made the pivot to remote learning and working. An #emchat session posed questions about what experience people had with working remotely, including how long they had done so. I remember my answer to the “how long” part of the question was significantly longer than…
Plenty has been written about how the “Great Resignation” is impacting higher ed – from sage words by HA ThirtyOne consultant Angie Vicars and colleagues in the field like Jaime Hunt of Miami University to industry megaphone The Chronicle. Yes, people are leaving higher ed, but what can be done to retain them, as well…
Politics. Pandemics. Economic turmoil. We’re not even through the first quarter of 2020 and things have felt, well, overwhelming. The steady stream of crises or attention-demanding situations hasn’t let up and the toll it can take on leaders – particularly communicators – is intense. It can make a person feel like they must always…
The H·A ThirtyOne podcast, 31Minutes, launches Part Two of its first ever multi-part series today. The episode, “Creating a Culture of Planning and Strategic Risk,” interviews Credo’s Emma Jones, Chief Brand Officer, and Joretta Nelson, Chief Knowledge Officer & SVP about their recent work with the Thriving 2.0 framework. (That’s the “Thriving” part of this…
Pivot. Hear the word and some people can only think of the Friends couch scene with Ross obnoxiously yelling, “PIVOT! PI-VAWT!” As Ross shouts, Rachel and Chandler struggle to hold on to a heavy couch while moving the piece of furniture up a twisting staircase. If you haven’t seen it, it is a guaranteed laugh…
Our June episode of 31Minutes, “Moving Beyond Logos to the Heart of the Brand,” features a content-rich discussion with Elon University’s Vice President for Enrollment, Greg Zaiser. Greg joined us to talk about how his institution transformed itself into one of the preeminent schools in the country, in no small part by employing successful, campus-wide brand…
A fun and enlightening conversation with Liz Gross from Campus Sonar #31MinutesPodcast If you’ve read my blogs before, or we’ve had the pleasure of working together, you know I love to share. Travel tips, books, crazy stories…it’s all fair game. That urge to share is one of the reasons I’m pretty pleased with the outcome…
H·A ThirtyOne’s #whoshareswins posts are all about spreading the word about good things, no matter how far afield from our higher ed focus they may at first seem to be. There’s typically a dose of serendipity that, as the idea keeps coming back to us, pieces start to fall into place and before we know…
Sometimes reading social media posts makes the world seem like a place where deals are always made, promotions are always secured, and the thing that was tried always worked. This is not one of those posts. At the start of December, H·A ThirtyOne, received an 11th hour call for a project proposal. The potential client…
For this pre-Thanksgiving #whoshareswins post, we offer the handy-dandy “Engaging in Dialogue” guide, developed by Marian University, one of H·A ThirtyOne’s partner institutions. It’s just what the holiday ordered if you’re getting anxious about potentially tense topics of conversation. Instead of biting your tongue or wandering into the laundry room to covertly tweet your frustrations,…