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
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.
An Ancient View of AI Origins
Grappling with artificial intelligence and the related question of how AI should be regulated brings the obvious challenge of change in senior living.
Exciting Artificial Intelligence News
Wouldn’t it be a turnaround if senior services were at the forefront of this coming revolution instead of being seen as a laggard?
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
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.
The One Thing Your Team Needs Most (And You’re Probably Missing It)
The thing that makes humans happiest — whether we’re introverts or extroverts — is meaningful interaction with other people.
Why Your High-Performing Team Secretly Hates Their Job (And What You’re Missing)
You can create the greatest working environment, and yet, if your team’s perception is that you, as a leader, don’t care, it doesn’t matter.
LEADERSHIP
The “I Am” Exercise: How Your Identity Shapes Your Leadership Impact
When you don’t consciously choose which identity to lead with, you default to whatever feels comfortable, and comfortable isn’t always effective.
Stagnation
Complacency can kill the creative spark, leading, as Dan fears, “to an industry largely indifferent to innovation.”
What the Joseph Schwartz Pardon Really Tells Us About Senior Living — And Why It Should Worry Us
When a large operator collapses due to massive mismanagement and the person at the center gets a second chance, it sends a terrible message.
LIFE ENRICHMENT
A Disconcerting Health Care Question
The United States has the highest cost of healthcare of any advanced nation, without the wellness advances to match that outlay.
This Thanksgiving We Broke His Heart
I felt like I was abandoning him after dropping him off. I knew that he was in the best possible place. I felt guilty.
Food Service and Belonging
CCRC dining differs from dining-out expectations, and starting with residents, instead of corporate, can be the key to successful community living.
SALES & MARKETING
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 …
Advertising and Branding for Our New Age
Human creativity and perception are key to building dominant brand awareness. AI will not take that away from us.
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
Redefining Travel at Any Age: A Conversation with Kerri Johnson
Steve Moran sits down with Kerri Johnson, Founder and CEO of GoMo Travel, to discuss what it means to age boldly.