Break to Educate

Quarterly workshops to help educate entrepreneurial start-ups, small businesses, nonprofits and large corporations about available resources in Birmingham.

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Thanks to everyone who attended the Nonprofit Workshop! If you attended, please take our short survey on the event: https://t.co/UJ0SJdHt9E

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Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's Break to Educate! It was a great session!

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Brooke Bowles: "You need to ensure your board is awake and involved. We make sure that our board is kept informed of updates every week."

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Brooke Bowles: "You need a board that's awake and cares. Not a board that micromanages, not a board with an agenda, just a board who cares."

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Brooke Bowles: "We ask, 'what is your least favorite part of the job? What can we do to address that?'" @triumphservices

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Brooke Bowles: "This is not a performance. On the contrary, we ask how the supervisor is managing them. Who do they talk to about problems?"

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Brooke Bowles: "Every year, we do what we call a 'stay interview' with every employee." @triumphservices

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Brooke Bowles: "In our weekly updates, we admit the bad things: 'hey, here's what went wrong. Here's where we could do better next week.'"

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Brooke Bowles: "I'm a big believer in vulnerability. If your leadership isn't willing to be vulnerable, no one under you will be either."

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Brooke Bowles: "But sometimes we don't have the answers. In that case, over-communicate. Be as transparent as possible." @triumphservices

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Brooke Bowles: "Nonprofit directors are type-A personalities. We don't like uncertainty, we like to know the answers."

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Brooke Bowles: "Role clarification is NOT a job description. It's clarifying who's responsible for what in the nonprofit." @triumphservices

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Brooke Bowles: "In nonprofits, everyone wears different hats. So role-clarification streamlines things." @triumphservices

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Brooke Bowles: "It can't be that easy, can it? I have been doing for several years and it has been a game-changer." @triumphservices

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Brooke Bowles: "The best way to ensure consistent, effective communication is. . . Saturday morning emails." @triumphservices

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Brooke Bowles of @triumphservices: "The challenge is communication, communication, communication. We all know this."

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Nick Patterson: "As long as you understand that, we're welcome to hearing any great idea, any great cause." @WeldBham

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Nick Patterson: "Some people think that if they buy ads, they get to influence coverage. Not with us. Not with me." @WeldBham

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Nick Patterson: "Be prepared to be a little pushy-not too pushy-but be prepared to send that email more than once, reach out a few times."

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Nick Patterson: "If you have a photograph of something other than the grip-and-grin, you're much more likely to get attention." @WeldBham