18Aug 2022 by Lauren

TAMIO is growing. What about our board and regions?

Change, Leadership, Organization, TAMIO
Over the last decade, TAMIO has seen substantial growth in membership and in the organization’s programming. That growth is exciting, but it brings with it a few challenges. Certain parts of the state have seen record population growth, which means those TAMIO regions have also seen the fastest membership growth. This has resulted in some regions with 24 members and other regions with more than 150 members. Additionally, all of the new programming TAMIO is producing requires people to implement it and facilitate it. These are all normal growing pains, and we have a proposed solution for your consideration – a reconfiguration of our TAMIO regions. What will that look like? First, it’s important to note that our TAMIO regions need to align with the boundaries already created for TML’s…
Read More
02Feb 2022 by Lauren

Other duties as assigned can lead to professional growth.

Change, Organization
The time is January 2021, and in the thick of month eight of COVID-19 communications, it happened. All of the responsibilities for the City of Bryan’s 150th Anniversary of Incorporation – the largest celebration in the city since the mid-1990s – were bestowed upon my department. Oh, and that official 150th anniversary date was just around the corner. So, with 10 months and an extremely small budget – in the middle of a pandemic – we set out to plan and execute a year’s worth of historical celebrations and events worthy of a sesquicentennial. Only one small problem: I’ve never been an event planner, and knowing the immense amount of details and skill that go into planning events, I wasn’t sure how we were going to pull this off. But,…
Read More
16Sep 2020 by Lauren

Embracing Change, Whether You Want to or Not

Change
To be honest, if you were to tell me 10 years ago that I’d be writing a blog post about how change can be a good thing, I would have laughed at you. I’ve never loved change. I can vividly remember each time my parents told me we were moving out of state and how I thought my life was over, that it was all downhill from there. Not surprisingly, my life was not over in the third grade when we moved, when we moved again during high school, or after the  other big changes in my life (and I’ve been through some big ones). No doubt, 2020 has given us all a new perspective. For us public information officers, the challenges seem to keep coming in what will perhaps…
Read More