Seth Kahan

Meeting Triage – Factors to Consider when Delaying or Canceling a Meeting

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While working at the World Bank, designing and facilitating hundreds of meetings, I developed a framework for what to consider when canceling or rescheduling a meeting.  Make a comprehensive list of meetings objectives categorized by each of the five stakeholders: Members Partners Sponsors Vendors Organization Next sort each of the objectives into three buckets: Objectives […]

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Self Care

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Recent days have brought big changes here in the USA. Social distance is the word. Not only are people actively discouraged from gathering, but institutions and businesses are also taking a break on very short notice. My son’s college has asked him to leave, and my daughter’s high school gave the kids two weeks off

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COVID-19 Response Checklist for Associations

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March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced the novel coronavirus is a pandemic. Disrupting the global supply chain and causing the cancelation of events and meetings, the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting associations and their members. Yesterday, at my Visionary Leadership Academy, senior executives representing 17 associations, a global association management firm and I put

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Loving Life!

Monday Morning Mojo /

Cheers! My morning cup of coffee in one of my favorite mugs! Right now I am working on four Grand Challenges: big, bold goals that can make a powerful contribution to society while helping the associations that lead them to grow and prosper including all of their members. This gives me immense pleasure and lights

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Leading Change

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Leading change is a core competency for today’s successful leader. There was a time when change was episodic; it would come and disrupt and then things would settle down. Then change became continuous with software applications that with each release had new iterations. And now we are experiencing continuous, exponential, overlapping change. Where changes in

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3 Core Competencies of Visionary Leaders

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There are three qualities that every visionary leader I work with has in common: Operational Excellence Strategic Foresight Calculated Bold Risks Executives who possess these three skills are capable of advancing, progressing, and leading, in a way that is consistent with the needs of their organization’s stakeholders. Watch the video above to learn more about

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Trying New Things

Monday Morning Mojo /

That’s a grasshopper taco above. I never had one before, but it was on the menu so I gave it a try. Turned out to be crunchy. Not particularly tasty, but not bad either. I like to try new things and that was new for me, even though grasshoppers have been human food for a

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