Leader's notesWinter 2020 A Note From Connect Leadership by Kristi Elizondo December 8, 2020 written by Kristi Elizondo Clearing the Cache Let’s clear the 2020 cache. We don’t want to forget everything we learned this year, but we can sure use the opportunity to refresh for 2021. Like every other company, we started the year with some clear ideas of what we wanted to accomplish in 2020. Well, were we in for a surprise. By mid-March, everything we had planned for was up for review. As the CEO, I was not ready to admit defeat and start the grim exercise of adjusting the budget. It quickly became apparent that 2020 was not going to give in, and survival mode kicked in. At an early age, my parents taught me when you make your mind treat every negative situation as a lesson to learn, you will have a joyous life. My parents and I were all raised in Texas, so maybe it came from a country-western song. Perhaps they learned it from Willie Nelson, who said, “once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” You can’t always change what happens to you, but you can change how you respond to the situation. I have to admit, some of this sounds like clichés or makes me sound like Pollyanna but by the end of April, I had to work hard to change my response to life events. I was mad at what was happening in the world. I was depressed. I was lonely, and I missed my friends and family. Like many of you, I took up a new hobby. I started a succulent garden. I did the “30 days of Yoga with Adrienne” on YouTube. In July, my dog nearly died. I started to backslide into the negative but chose to believe and renewed my faith. I am happy to say our Chief Canine Officer, Holly Peno survived and is still a contributor at Connect. As for the user group, we have become more vital this year. In July, we hosted a virtual meet-up for the chapters. We, unfortunately, had to cancel our annual in-person event scheduled for November in San Francisco. The NonStop Technical Boot Camp became a virtual event. We typically have 400 people at this event. When the TBC became virtual, we had over 2,000 attendees from across the globe participate. Success comes with a price, so we had to cap the registration, but people unable to register can now view the content on NonStopTBC.com, and our membership has grown by over 1,000 new members this year. While we prefer to meet in person, we are grateful we can meet virtually through the support of HPE and our partner community. Our community, which includes customers, partners, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is more relevant than ever. Whether it be across the globe or the HPE portfolio, this year encouraged us to be more engaged with each other. The same technologies criticized for interfering with developing personal relationships have kept us together in 2020. Thank you for helping our community thrive. Happy New Year! Kristina Elizondo CEO, Connect Worldwide December 8, 2020 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
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Leader's notesSummer 2019 A Note From Connect Leadership by Navid Khodayari July 8, 2019 by Navid Khodayari July 8, 2019 [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Greetings Connect Community, Summertime is here! The sun is out, the beach is packed, and the 2019 HPE Discover is officially in the books! Your Connect team was there to hear about all the latest and greatest from HPE and to provide some great presentations to the community at large. While … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Leader's notesMar-Apr2019TheConnection A Note From Connect Leadership by Navid Khodayari March 28, 2019 by Navid Khodayari March 28, 2019 [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Greetings NonStop Community, I hope you are all enjoying your springtime. We had a bit of a wet winter in this authors town, but seem to be drying out with sunny days on the horizon. Speaking of sun, the good folks over in Florida just had their annual SUNTUG … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Leader's notesTheConnection A Note from Connect Leadership by Navid Khodayari February 1, 2019 by Navid Khodayari February 1, 2019 [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Greetings NonStop Community, Welcome to the first ever exclusively-digital issue of The Connection! We hope you are as excited about it as your Connect Team is! We aim to provide you the same great content in a much more modern and interactive format. Over the next few issues, we … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Fall 2018Leader's notes Editor’s Letter by Stacie Neall September 27, 2018 by Stacie Neall September 27, 2018 [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] “Success is the sum of details.” – Harvey S. Firestone Welcome to the Fall issue of Connect Converge It would be impossible to count how many conversations I have heard that either start with or end with, “This keeps me up at night.” We’ve all been there. … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail