Building a high-performing team starts with trust. At PointNorth, we embrace the journey of teamwork by establishing clear agreements and open communication. Discover how setting expectations and fostering accountability can strengthen your team's foundation and drive success!

How do you feel about change? It can be exciting, but it can also lead to a lot of fear. What if it all goes wrong? What if you let people down? While there's no way to completely put those feelings to rest, one key thing will pull you through – find out what it is, and how to cultivate it, in today's blog.

"If you miss a ballgame, a recital, or anything to do with your children, I'll fire you."

Lauren was so struck when she came across this quote from Bruce Arians — and it got her thinking about the importance of having a supportive workplace as a mother. Read on for her list of the five things every working mom needs from her employer:

It's hard to know how to deal with trauma at work — but trying to pretend like you can somehow separate out your "trauma self" and leave it at home while your "professional self" goes to work just doesn't work. Join us as Bryan walks us through his healing journey, and how the workplace can actually support you in your healing.

In the fast-paced world of public relations, crafting a media pitch that not only grabs a reporter's attention but also results in a story is equal parts art and science – and when you get it right, it can really pay off for you and your org.

Find out PointNorth's Communications Manager Sam Stites' top four tips for crafting pitches that count:

We all crave control — but the truth is, there's actually very little we can do to control the world around us. This doesn't have to be a bad thing though. Find out why, and learn a useful model for maintaining flexible control, in this month's blog post.

So many organizations say they're striving to build a culture of excellence – when what they're really doing is creating a culture of perfection. Join us this month to learn the difference between the two, and which one you need for your organization's long-term success.

"What do you need?" Sounds like the most natural question in the world — but it's not usually the first one that comes to mind when a team member shows up hurting, stressed, or just off their game. In this month's blog, we explore the power of a well-placed question – join us, and see how you can use it to improve your team culture.

Want to become a marketing leader? The path to getting there might be much more personal than you think.

Join us for this week's article and learn Zander Arnold's top takeaways from SMPS Amplify, as well as actionable takeaways for marketing leadership development.

Developing a strong relationship with the media is a powerful way to amplify your organization's message and reach. Here's three fundamental strategies for media engagement any organization can benefit from.

Fueling our creative spark 🔥✨ Making time for play, embracing our physical space, and even allowing ourselves to be bored—it's all part of the process.

Organizations that give voice to their values are stronger — and that's just the truth. That's why we're proud to announce the launch of our newly-revised Live Your North Values Sort. Learn how it works and give it a try.

What do martial arts have to do with leadership? Maybe more than you think. Find out what our team learned from The Art of Badassery!

It’s been almost a year since Barbie first came out, and yet, it’s still having an enormous impact on our cultural conversation. As we move through this Women’s History Month, we wanted to highlight five of our favorite quotes from this movie which is fun, fantastic, and above all, female-forward.

As a leader, you know you want to inspire action rooted in your values – but it can be easy to get bogged down in tools and best practices. While each tool adds to the development of people and teams, understanding the threads that tie people and organizations together and working to uncover deep motives led us down a path of exploring values – specifically how our values shape, align and move us as individuals and teams.

How often do you talk about love in your work? It's historically been relegated to the realm of personal life, but we'd argue that love actually plays a central role in any great work and our great work together

Meaningful multilingual engagement is our baseline for work. After all, what’s the point in doing work in a community if it doesn’t speak to that community? But simple translation doesn’t go far enough –– we need the people we work with to truly understand the nuances of the conversation.

Could choosing a word shape your year? We think so. This year, our team chose Evolve, and we will be harnessing the power of a single word to be the arc over time toward a better, more advantageous version of ourselves.

The truth is, sometimes your work life requires more of you, and sometimes your home life requires more. If your goal is to make sure that everything is 50/50, all the time, you will constantly be trying to shift something, and that takes so much energy

How do you square that circle of having a number of first priorities? You pick two. We have started a “You Pick Two” policy at PointNorth, inspired by the simplicity and focus framing of the Panera Bread menu.