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Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week: Can You Hear Me Now?
Potentially difficult convo coming up? This week’s tip can be a game changer—and a conversation starter. “When we feel like we are going to be in conflict or have tension...
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Tip of the Week: Part of the Plan
Trouble hiring and retaining medical staff? This strategy can provide insulation against employee turnover. According to the latest report generated from new 2023 Compensation & Benefits Study, the median employee...
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Tip of the Week: Are You In Or Are You Out?
As animal welfare professionals we often wear many hats, particularly in smaller organizations. Does your organization have an in-house HR team, or do you outsource to an HR or payroll...
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Tip of the Week: Does It Make a Difference?
Doing DEI work? Here’s one tool to assess the impact. We know many of your organizations have been hard at work to increase diversity within your walls, and to make...
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Tip of the Week: Assess Your Community’s Virtual Equity
Are there areas in your community that don’t have access to broadband services? Here are resources for finding out. Are your employment, adoptions & volunteer applications online only? What about...
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Tip of the Week: Busting Biases at Work
Here’s an exercise to try the next time you’ve got an important decision to make in the workplace. Bias—simply defined as a prejudice in favor of or against one thing,...
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Tip of the Week: The Case for Pet-Friendly Housing
We’re still digging through the tips and insights shared in last week’s Roundtable on Dog Breeds: Implication for Behavior, Adopter Expectations & Legislation. Here’s another invaluable resource. One of the...
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Tip of the Week: What Do You Think I Am?
We know that dogs for adoption at shelters are regularly labeled by breed, and we know that staff regularly make their best guesses—based on looks—to describe a dog’s breed or...
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Tip of the Week: Best Practices for Keeping People & Pets Together
Looking for a digital resource for creating and strengthening pet-friendly homeless services? Coming right up, thanks to National Alliance to End Homelessness and PetSmart Charities. In shifting how we think...
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Tip of the Week: Dog, Tagged
This week we share an idea for finding lost dogs via Missing Animal Response Network. This is a good one to pass on to your communities. “The basic concept is...
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Tip of the Week: Defining Roles
What’s in a name? This week’s tip digs into leadership roles and titles, and how some of your colleagues are defining these roles. Manager, Coordinator, Director, Supervisor…. Definitions for these...
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Tip of the Week: Good Reads
Earlier this year, we asked members of The Association what they were reading. Here are a few of their recs. Let us know in the comments if you’ve checked out...
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