What kind of impact do you want to have?
Welcome to Elected Impact. If you’re an elected official who wants to increase your impact to make your community even better, this is the weekly email newsletter for you.
From the perspective of a three-term alderman in Manchester, NH, I write about four main topics to help you be a more effective local leader:
- Communication — In public service, as in life, so much comes down to how well or poorly we communicate. Discover new and not-so-new ways of sharing information with, and receiving information from, constituents, colleagues, and others in the community.
- Constituent Service — You take care of your constituents, they’ll take care of you. Learn how to best respond to the needs — stated and unstated — facing those you represent and how to wow them in the process.
- Work/Life/Service Balance — Put your own oxygen mask on first. Take care of yourself and those you love so that you can give your best to those you serve.
- Governing — It’s what the voters elect us to do. Learn how to best work with your fellow elected officials, as well as staff, residents, and other community stakeholders to actually get stuff done via partnership and collaboration.
Now, more than ever, with democracy itself increasingly under attack, we need leaders like you. We need you to serve at a level of excellence that will help to restore our constituents’ faith that government can not just function, but can actually make their lives better — one ward, one district, one city, one county at a time.
Join us.
