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
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.
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
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
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
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.
Transparency, Integrity, and Full Disclosure: Due to the political, passionate and divisive nature of abortion women facing unplanned pregnancy are often the victims of biased information and sales tactics at abortion clinics and elsewhere. It is our belief based on serving thousands of abortion-minded women across the country every year that women need to be
An issue has recently come up within the CompassCare OT network of PRCs regarding employee compensation. Namely when is it right to determine if an employee should be paid for holidays and whether or not that employee should be salaried and therefore exempt from being paid overtime? Regarding holidays and paid time off it is
At the average medical PRC, why is it that only 10% of the entire client load actually pregnant women seriously considering abortion? We have found that it has to do with how services are provided . . . based on a secular humanistic model of counseling. Can those Pregnancy Care Centers reverse that trend to
Imagine 95% of the pregnant clients that walk through your doors at risk for abortion. What if I told you that there are pregnancy centers currently operating for whom this is happening. What if I told you that there are medical PRCs right now for whom 80-90% of their client load is actually pregnant? There
