HELPFUL RESOURCES
EDITOR’S PICKS
The Cost of Inaction: Delaying Finance Outsourcing
If your finance team is feeling the strain — or if you’re simply curious about how outsourcing could help — you don’t have to figure it out alone.
Who Should Be Innovating In Your Organization?
The most successful innovation leaders don’t say “follow me” — they say “I believe in your vision. How can I help make it happen?”
Richard Branson’s One-Sentence Business Revolution
In Branson’s world this means leaders need to genuinely care about people and they need to hire people who genuinely care about people.
TECHNOLOGY
Stop Testing, Start Connecting: A Revolutionary Approach to Dementia Engagement
Caregivers who find something to talk about beyond care tasks build the trust that makes their work more effective and residents’ lives better.
My Contraband Health Tracker
As a technology junkie, I soon became aware of a watch that tracks blood pressure. The only problem. It’s banned in the United States …
Never Let the Present Blind You to the Future
How long will it be before AI is as power-efficient as a modern laptop or smartphone? Let’s keep moving forward to reap the benefits.
DEVELOPMENT
Rural America Could Solve Senior Living’s Affordability Crisis
The benefits for potential residents are obvious — a great living experience at a much lower cost. For the industry, the list is long…
Communal Origins of Senior Housing
Senior housing has become a business, which makes it easy to forget its beginnings in grassroots efforts by communities of faith.
Senior Living Franchising
There is a potential for franchising to supplement today’s senior living capital. And the concepts may inspire new thinking about how we age in America.
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Do This, and You Will Understand Your Team 1,000% Better
You think you know how your team is doing. Then something explodes, or a team member quits, or morale crashes for no apparent reason.
Why Your Team Doesn’t Trust You (And the Stupidly Simple Fix)
When team members trust their leaders, everything is better. Team members are more productive. They’re happier. They’re less likely to quit.
The Simple Question That Transforms Team Connection
Connection is the foundation of everything else you’re trying to build as a leader. This one question builds that foundation one sentence at a time.
LEADERSHIP
What Great Leadership Actually Looks Like — When Everything Seems to Be Impossible
You can’t make the building something it’s not. But …you can create a culture where people feel like they belong to something worthwhile.
Leadership Doesn’t Matter That Much Anymore
Is there still room, even a tiny bit of room, to lead? To make things incrementally better? To impact the actual humans in front of you?
If Someone Audited Your Life, What Would Shock Them?
Leadership work is never “done. Which is why … every once in a while, if we want to be at our best, it is imperative that we STOP.
LIFE ENRICHMENT
Stop Testing, Start Connecting: A Revolutionary Approach to Dementia Engagement
Caregivers who find something to talk about beyond care tasks build the trust that makes their work more effective and residents’ lives better.
The Money Trail: Sources and Uses of Funds
My father used to give joking advice. “Don’t marry for money,” he adjured, “but go where the money is.” That’s still true today.
I Asked AI to Be Elon Musk and Design Senior Living – The Conversation Took a Bizarre Twist
So I asked, “What if it wasn’t a senior living community? What if young families and older adults all lived together as neighbors?”
SALES & MARKETING
Tours Are Theater. Families Still See The Truth.
For nearly twenty years, one thing has felt inevitable: when boomers reach “old age,” senior living demand will surge. And yet …
Vicarious Vendor Experience
It’s naïve to think that a booth staffed with no more than a salesperson will attract interest. You have to have something to grab attention.
Why Your Social Media Strategy Is Failing (And How to Fix It)
Here’s the truth: the algorithm doesn’t care about your content anymore — it cares about conversations. Brooke’s CARE framework turns this upside down …
FORESIGHT RADIO
S7 Episode 24 – Beyond ‘Behaviors’: Seeing Dementia as a Human Condition with Zach Parlier
Rachel Hill sits down with Zach Parlier, administrator and self-described dementia enthusiast at English Rose in Edina, Minnesota.
FORESIGHT TV
The Habits of Highly Defective Bosses (And What They Teach Us)
Joel Hilchey joins Steve Moran for a conversation about leadership, missteps, and the lessons managers learn after they’ve made mistakes.