Your company aspires to be a good corporate citizen and you have a critical role in meeting that aspiration. The Center’s 2½ day Institute on Corporate Citizenship is what you need to equip yourself with the information and tools to understand and contribute to your firm’s success. Register now to attend our Jan. 18-20 session of the Institute on Corporate Citizenship in Miami and you will: Read the rest of this entry »

There are an endless number of gadgets and devices available to help professionals in every field perform more efficiently, more effectively and with more information at their disposal. But from the point of view of Andy Boynton, dean of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, none of those things is as powerful as what brought each of them into being – a great idea. Read the rest of this entry »

Many community involvement practitioners suffer from the nagging feeling that their employee volunteer programs are good but not yet great. However, their attempts at improvement have been hampered by the absence of useful benchmarking information and the absence of a guiding management framework capable of predicting success. How can you move your employee volunteer program from good to great? Read the rest of this entry »

Feeling nostalgic as you see all those kids headed off to school this fall? Maybe it’s time to think about your own education needs. We’ve announced the following fall courses, which can also be viewed in our fall catalog at right. Register for a course today! You may not get to ride the school bus, but we promise there won’t be much homework either. Read the rest of this entry »

As the operating environment for business continues to change, more is expected of companies, even when fewer resources are available.  As a result the bar for community involvement managers continues to rise. Read the rest of this entry »

Corporate citizenship practitioners often ask me – sometimes with an expression of wide-eyed panic – “how do I start to measure my corporate citizenship program?”

The prospect of measuring to what degree product is “responsibly” produced or “ethically” traded, for example, can throw many into despair.

There is no need to suffer over the impossibility of measuring corporate citizenship. Sure, ethics and responsibility cannot be measured with a physical gadget the way temperature can with a thermometer. But this does not mean lofty abstract goals cannot be measured. They can. Read the rest of this entry »

Our Management Development certificate programs are considered to be the gold standard for professional development in the field. For those who have the need for an on-site program, we’ve just introduced two new custom Fast-Track Certification programs in Community Involvement Excellence and Corporate Citizenship Excellence. Read the rest of this entry »