Improve Your Program. Have Lunch with Clifford.
I had the opportunity to meet Clifford recently.
Clifford?
Yep. Clifford. You know. The Big Red Dog?!
An invitation to lunch over at PBS headquarters came my way. I hestitated to accept because it was in the middle of the work week and it wasn't a work-related meeting, but it was only lunch so I decided to go.
For two hours, I learned about new children's programming, I visited with friends and I got to meet Clifford.
I didn't think about work once.
Driving back to the office I began to panic. I'd be gone for two hours! I was on company time. How would I explain?
As I was figuratevely wringing my hands, a solution to a work challenge I had been deliberating earlier came to me. All of the sudden, I was able to look at it from a different perspective--one that wouldn't have occurred to me before I took time out for that lunch.
It took stepping away from the office and focusing on something seemingly unrelated to see my problem in a different light.
And I wondered...
How easy is it to become so engrossed in your organization or the programs that you work on that it's impossible to be objective about your work? Are you doing things the same way because that's your habit? Because that's the way it's always been done?
What can you do to truly increase your fundraising? How can you get more of your members to contact their legislators?
If you could exchange jobs with an industry colleague, what would you do differently with the program they run?
For me it took meeting Clifford to get outside of my own head. What can you do to get out of yours?
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