LeadingAge’s Post

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(upbeat music) - [Speaker] So this is a powerful, powerful concept. - I'm often asked, "What is the secret sauce "of LeadingAge Conferences?" And my answer is always the same, what is the secret sauce is our members. In other organizations, you'll see great education, but you will not see a member teaching members what they do best. - Just being able to share ideas with colleagues who aren't afraid to share. There's not this sort of territorialism that we can find in other areas. So we get to share those ideas and borrow and offer help ourselves. - It gives you an opportunity, even as you're growing within your career, to talk to people who might have experiences that, you know, you don't have yet. It's an opportunity for, you know, people who you have relationships with in different areas, for you to bounce things off of in a safe space. - One thing that we've been trying to do is figure out how to do an at-home program. And today, at breakfast, I talked with someone who is doing just that in New Jersey that was able to answer some of the very practical questions that I had. And so now, I'm able to go back and pick up the phone, have a Zoom call with her, and get into some details. - We like to share the ideas that we have and we like to gather ideas as well. So we're actually presenting at this year's conference on attracting and retaining talent in our field through student internships. So we're gonna share our knowledge and we love that because we can all learn from one another. - The most valuable part about these conferences and these times together are the intentional connections that are created and fostered. - They pull together just extraordinary speakers and presenters that engage us and help us to do our work much better. - To advocate for policies are important to our members. It's huge. I'd never done it before I came to a LeadingAge Summit Conference several years ago and got to go on Capitol Hill. And it was just amazing to realize that part of what we're doing can affect federal policy. - We know that LeadingAge is the ideal and the first choice for education and development for our teams and we set some dollars aside every year, specifically, for that purpose. It is just great to be able to see the results in our teams when they come back to our organization and how excited they are about all these things that they have learned, that they're ready to be able to implement it in our own organizations. - Now, more than ever, we need to invest in our workforce and develop leaders and give them the opportunity to grow and that's how we are gonna attract more people, you know, to our sector. - If you want somebody to be able to contribute and stay longstanding in your organization, then you would send them to these LeadingAge meetings. These are important because these add value to your employee and then that adds value to your organization. - My supervisors- It's a boost in motivation. It's a boost in morale. It really does provide you with knowing how many people are fighting the same fight you are, coming together, learning, sharing ideas. Being able to network or just talk about different struggles, knowing that we're all being supported, really, you can't say enough. (upbeat music)