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
Unexpected Change in Sales Compensation
Could a high-tech approach and a creative marketing presence be the catalyst to move senior living out of the institutionalization shadows?
The Future of AgeTech Is Not a Button. It’s a Village.
The biggest insight from the conversation may be this: aging technology will only succeed if it respects the people it is designed to serve.
The Future is Imaginary: The Present is Reality
Having a government program like Medicaid give all qualifying seniors a humanoid robot would dramatically decrease the cost of assisted living.
DEVELOPMENT
Getting Old Is Not as Great as We Pretend It Is!
People don’t move into senior living communities because they’ve decided it’s a great lifestyle choice. They move in because something has changed.
The Village Movement Is Growing
There is an opportunity for care providers to collaborate with local villages, or even to sponsor and support them.
Senior Housing “Is a Consumer Business”
In the long run, the prize will go to those who are able to follow people to give them what they want as they age.
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Revolutionizing Your Resident and Team Experiences at Zero Cost
The right question is, “What would your team do with their time if the friction got out of the way?”
It Seems Obvious, but Which Would You Choose?
Imagine this scenario … You have been interviewing like crazy, frustrating, but out of the blue, you end up with two amazing offers on the table …
Stillness As Strategy: Slowing Down Can Improve Care
Stillness practices, including Tai Chi, come from a being mode. And the being mode is where teams recover.
LEADERSHIP
What Do I Need To Stop Believing About Myself? – The Brutal Truth
Most leaders are too impressed with themselves. They tend to be overconfident, certain, unwilling to consider that they might be wrong.
Never Have a Worthless Meeting Again
Most meetings end in conversation. Very few end in action. There’s a difference, and it matters more than most leaders realize.
Education and Training: Leadership Basics
Learning is lifelong and never stops, whether it is credentialed by the awarding of degrees or merely provides the basis for more effective leadership.
LIFE ENRICHMENT
What Sun City Got Right And Senior Living Forgot
The key insight from Sun City isn’t the golf courses. It’s the aspiration. It’s the sense that moving there is a move to something not away from something.
Stagnant Jobs and False Stability
The antidote to job stagnation is to break free from corporate seduction and to treat your career as your primary business challenge.
What Do I Need To Stop Believing About Myself?
My story is showing up not because the fear went away but because I stopped letting it make my decisions. That’s what managing a false belief looks like.
SALES & MARKETING
A Welcome Spam Message
The visual is appealing, and the glimpse of fresh vegetables immediately catches one’s eye. Quick impressions are paramount when you are sending spam.
Cultural Change from Them to Us
Can we return to that earlier culture in which the customer was central, and the enterprise served that customer?
Affiliating With the Village Movement
Imagine benefiting from a rapidly growing movement to improve your occupancy and your reputation for resident empowerment.
FORESIGHT RADIO
S8E9- The Small Things Are Everything: Amy Birkel on Senior Living Culture, Leadership & Workforce Retention
“I hope we’re a destination people want to come to and don’t feel like they have to.”
FORESIGHT TV
Disrupting the Script: Why Senior Living Needs Raw Authenticity
Steve Moran and Peter Murphy Lewis explore how storytelling can humanize the caregiving experience for residents, families, and staff.