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Group Offers Benchmarking Benefits Through Tiered, Online Program

Associations Now

The TCA Profitability Program, run using the inGauge online platform, is an outgrowth of the organization’s Best Practice Groups, which were established in 2002 to connect eight to 14 peer companies and allow them to share their successes and challenges to help each other improve.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Beware of Binders Becoming.

Idea Architects

I am a huge believer in the value of record-keeping in volunteer organizations and regularly preach the power of checklists as a vital tool in project management (you have read The Checklist Manifesto , right?). You can also think about creation and compliance as individual mindsets and skillsets when forming project teams.

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Leadership Limerick: Innovation Requires Many Contributions

Idea Architects

These scientific tools are complemented by the specific roles identified by IDEO, one of the worlds most innovative product design firms, in The Ten Faces of Innovation : Anthropologist. At minimum, when forming project teams consider what strengths the work requires and what individuals possess them. Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4).

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Leadership Limerick: One Ending is Another Beginning

Idea Architects

Every Fridays post will focus on some tool, technique, or situation related to facilitation, a skill I believe to be fundamental for anyone, bother personally and professionally. I have some exciting new initiatives for the year ahead, including a couple of writing and curriculum development projects I hope youll find of interest.

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MemCom Awards – could you be a winner?

Optimist Consulting

Entering and winning awards can be a powerful marketing tool. This will be the “lessons learnt” stage at the end of the project which you can justify back to your managment/board. To help inspire your entry Olivia Chute from Chaz Brooks Communications , a PR agency has agreed to kindly shares their 5 tops tips for industry award entry.

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12 Simple Ways to Unleash More Creative Thinking

Idea Architects

to experiment with new projects and see what works out. I think this might be a great problem-solving tool for association members when they feel like they've run into a wall and aren't sure where to go. Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4). Sep 2002 (2). Aug 2002 (3). Jul 2002 (3). Jun 2002 (2).

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New Style Guide Helps Journalists Cover Diversity Topics More Accurately

Associations Now

We’re glad to see this project come to fruition,” Sigma Delta Chi Foundation President Robert Leger said in a statement. Our grants are intended to improve journalism through training or by improving the tools reporters and editors have at their fingertips. The Diversity Style Guide helps ensure accurate and respectful language. .”