A Place I’ll Remember – January 2023
A Place I'll Remember The topic is arts as economic development, which is you know me you might guess I have a soft spot for. I think it’s important for a couple of key reasons. First, artists are adventurous – they will be...
Reboot Your Workforce Story Updates
Kate McEnroe On Demand This month there is a lot of editing going on over at Kate McEnroe on Demand. If you’ve been a student of Reboot Your Workforce Story, log back in to your student account to see the updated lesson attachments,...
A Place I’ll Remember – December 2022
A Place I'll Remember Talent recruitment programs targeted at bring people “home” have been going on for a while, and for a while Michigan communities have been capitalizing on the holiday seasons to encourage people to come back home...
A Few of my (Least) Favorite Things #1
Redesign Your Data This is a visualization of a pretty typical economic development data set – employment by industry. Is it hard to read? Do you think it would matter if I enlarged it? Made it in another program? Well, maybe,...
A Place I’ll Remember – November 2022
A Place I'll Remember It’s accepted as gospel truth that employers consider veterans to be a valuable component of any community’s local workforce. So, in addition to marketing that workforce to employers, many places are not actively...
A Gift of Learning
Redesign Your Data I’m a data visualization nerd, and I’ve invested a lot in learning best practices and thinking about how to apply them to economic development situations. Some time ago I created a list of my favorite...
Kate McEnroe on Demand – Speed Dating 101 Course
Kate McEnroe On Demand Kate McEnroe on Demand is my online school platform with on demand video content. You can subscribe as an individual or reach out to me for bulk or custom content for your team. Here’s this month’s...
A Place I’ll Remember – October 2022
A Place I'll Remember This post was going to be about Iceland, and a model they used to dramatically reduce teen smoking and drug use. As with many things, it popped into my consciousness from a number of angles – it was featured quite a...