Why does Participation Matter?

CE Pugh, Chief Operating Officer

National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA), Iowa City, IA

CE Pugh sheds his perspective, from the national level, on the importance of Participation in helping our cooperatives thive. There are many interesting questions we can explore if we look at data and trends from a national perspective and CE guides us along.

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By CDSCCLibrary|April 4th, 2014|Categories: Cooperative Cafe, Cooperative Governance, Democracy/Participation, Strategic Leadership|Tags: impact|

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Co-op directors and their managers are often seeking meaningful ways to tackle questions about the future, build alignment, and take steps toward realizing the goals and vision of their cooperative. A direct path to meeting this objective is for boards, along with their general manager, to participate together in the Cooperative Cafes offered through the CBLD program. It gives co-op leadership an opportunity to work together as a group in a dynamic environment with people from other co-ops.

Each year the Cooperative Cafes will have a changing theme and will contain new content about how leaders can engage constituents and gain support in their communities for co-op growth and development.

For more information about the Cooperative Cafes and other CBLD events, please visit our website.