How do you attract people to your community or your business? You have to create an environment that they want to be a part of. People will not support your community's or your company's dreams and vision until they know that you support theirs first.

Is your business and community to capitalize upon the new workforce? There are new rules to operate under to attract the right people. Are you following them? What workers want and what the world of work wants need to match. Come and join the conversation.

Join our Interview of Jared Arnett, entrepreneur, and Founding Executive Director of SOAR. Started in 2013, SOAR was started by former Kentucky Governor Steve Besherr and Congressman Hal Rogers. SOAR's mission is to expand job creation, enhance regional opportunity, innovation, and identity, improve the quality of life, and support al those working to achieve these goals in Appalachian Kentucky.

The problem with popular thinking is that you get the same results. What steps should your community take to become family-friendly, youth-centered that attracts people? Think Like an Entrepreneur and Become a Sparkplug for your community.

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The building of rural America is a little like the evolution of animals: You either learn how to transition to the changing environment or you die. Rural communities that are not constantly improving and becoming more competitive won't survive.  Rural communities need to rebuild who they are and why they still exist. Just like when the community was created more than 150 years ago, your community must look to the future to who your community wants to attract.   Attracting people not businesses, is how rural America is going to rebuild coming out of the COVID-19 crises. Describing who you want to live in your community is now the new strategic planning process that your community needs to go through.

Every board of directors should get together to look at the big picture of the organization and strategically plan every year as new perspectives, thinking, and insight will surface.   Boards of Directors are those who advise and determine the direction of an organization - most non-profit organizations have one. In fact, many for-profit corporations also have a board of directors. Ideally, a core group of committed individuals with diverse backgrounds and opinions, the most effective boards should gather every month and determine the direction that best-benefits the entire organization. All non-profits and boards look for people who know how to develop and build relationships, something you do every day in every aspect of your life. Family. Work. Volunteering. With yourself. These relationships strongly influence your successes, failures, and happiness

Join us as we talk with Carley Bruning Executive Director, Thayer County Economic Development Alliance. Carley gives excellent steps to inviting board members that will be a perfect fit for your organization, business, and government.

What is a retreat? There are many definitions but the one that we will focus on is creating a place of refuge, seclusion, or privacy. A place to make long-term directional steps to get an entrepreneurial board moving toward the future. During entrepreneurial board retreats, you can struggle with decisions, look at decisions, and have dissension among the ranks. But when you come out of your board meeting – any of them - you should have a Condition of Consensus.