Tunheim Blog - Insights From Team Tunheim

Audibles on the Line of Scrimmage: Insights During Football Season

Organizations used to spend weeks, even months, developing multi-year plans that went deep on details about strategies, resource requirements, talent recruitment and more. Annual budgets were drawn from those strategic plans, setting out the milestones and measures that would be…

Kathy TunheimOctober 20, 2021

Change Management

Our Changing Relationship to Work

Full disclosure: I have had ‘a job’ without a break for over 47 years - since I turned 18 years old. Not the same job, of course: I’ve moved from private to public sector and back again. Always in an…

Kathy TunheimOctober 12, 2021

Digital + Content Public Relations

SEO & PR

Links from media are more valuable than others. 6 factors that affect link authority and how to think about them with your SEO PR efforts.

David EricksonOctober 6, 2021

Leadership

Richard III

“Now is the winter of our discontent…” Shakespeare’s insights for our timeI can no longer find helpful contemporary context for my daily journey through this crazy time we are living in. So, I have gone to the classics. Shakespeare, specifically.First,…

Kathy TunheimOctober 5, 2021

Public Affairs

A Second Conversational Look at One-Time Federal Funds: Investing in Transformational Opportunities

In our first conversation about the federal funds coming to Minnesota, we heard that while there are aspirations, neither the states or the local leaders are set up to spend funds on transformational ideas or initiatives. These funds come with…

TunheimOctober 5, 2021

Change Management

Assessing the ‘Value Prop’

The terminology has always struck me as a little slick for something so fundamentally important: “value proposition” is a concept that every organization needs to own and revisit in its relationships to employees, to customers and other key stakeholders.I unpack…

Kathy TunheimSeptember 24, 2021

Community Building

School Lessons That Last

My granddaughter reported that her first day of second grade last week was “the best school day ever.” Since I know that she was wearing a mask and observing social distancing, I’m pretty sure it was not, in fact, the…

Kathy TunheimSeptember 14, 2021

Leadership

Change and Attitude

All of the truisms and catch phrases about change and how it is good for us come rushing in when I am dealing with a particularly unwelcome change for our organization. None more so than when we lose a talented…

Kathy TunheimSeptember 2, 2021

Community Development

Who Are We? Where Do We Belong?

It seems we are entering a very challenging time, in terms of understanding where we fit in the world. The identities that guided our life navigation in recent years are coming under extraordinary pressure and the signs are increasing that…

Kathy TunheimAugust 26, 2021

Is Your Brand Invisible in the Age of AI?

What a Global Network Really Offers: One Agency’s Perspective

PR & Media Relations: Messaging, Storytelling & Audiences