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A Pregnancy Center Executive’s Journey to an LSM: Wisdom Part B

Walking into the office on his first day George was met with two very valuable surprises.  The first was a phone message from a local doctor saying she wanted to somehow be involved in the organization not knowing in what capacity a non-medical facility could use a medical doctor.  The second was a business card

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New York Sweeping Abortion Bill Sets U.S. Precedent

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A Pregnancy Center Executive’s Journey to an LSM: Wisdom Part A

Two months in to his new role as Executive Director at Crisis Pregnancy Services George Knight sat starring down at the city street from his second floor Executive office.  It was a nice office but the walk up the cavernous lonely stairwell from the busy city sidewalk felt a lot like being transported into a

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Virtuous Leadership and a Linear Service Model (LSM) Part 2

What are the primary virtues of an effective leader and why is virtue in a leader so crucial to a linear service model? In our initial attempts to ascertain what it was that drove executives that led organizations that performed better than others, what made them so different, we noticed that there were no obvious

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Virtuous Leadership and a Linear Service Model Part 1

Virtuous Leadership and a Linear Service Model (LSM) Part 1: As goes the Executive so goes the organization. In the process of both running a medical PRC and helping others to develop and operate their medical PRCs it occurred to me that there are certain questions all of us PRC Executives need to have answered.

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Linear Service Model vs Global Service Model Defined

After developing the first and only repeatable Linear Service Model for the pregnancy resource center movement many have asked me where the terms came from and what the differences are between a Linear Service Model or LSM and the traditional way a Pregnancy Center operates. Essentially, we started applying the terms in 2004-05 in an

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Optimized Linear Service Conference Review

Thank you to all the Executives that attended the April conference! After some time to process the executives that attended CompassCare’s high impact conference in Rochester, NY came away with some valuable tools for continuous improvement when using a linear service model. How to know if doing something new is the right thing for the

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CompassCare Pregnancy Center Optimization Conference

CompassCare has trained many medical pregnancy centers in several States to “Optimize” their services in order to reach more women seriously considering abortion and help them have their babies more effectively. The results have been staggering. For last couple years the Executives of those pregnancy centers have been requesting CompassCare to host a conference just

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Executive Stress Management

This seems to be a very stressful season for Pregnancy Center Executives. Not only do we have to make sure that services continue to be provided with excellence, regular communications are written, vendors are paid but add to that a seasonal dip in giving causing anxiety about things like whether or not you’ll make payroll.

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