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Understanding Generation X: A Guide for Associations

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You hear a lot about Baby Boomers, Millennials, and as of late, Generation Z. But Baby Boomers are retiring now, and Gen X now makes up over 50% of leadership roles around the world. In fact, the independent Millennials often take the credit for being the generation of boundaries, but Gen Xers led the way. Who is Gen X?

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An Association Rebrand From Start to Finish

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When we had a change of leadership, branding became a hot topic so we jumped on the opportunity to make changes. With a strong collegiate base and more millennials joining up than ever before, we had to be current with our messaging and how we were presenting it visually. Conversations started in early 2013 among our leadership.

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What leadership skills do nonprofit emerging leaders need to succeed?

Beth Kanter

Are leadership skills different for emerging “Millennial” leaders than for people from different generations? There’s an excellent summary by the study’s authors in this post, “ Preparing Millennials for Leadership Success ,” the tips include: 1. Leadership' Drives for results.

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SXSW is here! Association Weekly Wrap-Up for March 8th!

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Three millennials (two males and one female) also served on the committee. The three millennials asked some very tough and insightful questions. What makes the Facebooks, Amazons and Starbucks of the world become the first resource people turn to when they think of communicating, shopping or meeting a friend over a cup of coffee?

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Hear That Sound? It’s the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Engaging Members from Day One

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Since becoming Director, Membership for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in 2013, Mike Skiados, CAE has enjoyed a 98 percent member retention rate. Then GWSAE merged with ASAE, and I moved into a role working with the Greater Washington community – the “GW Network” – of ASAE. They want to see value.

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Is Your Association at a Crossroads?

Association Adviser

Tremendous insight, vision and leadership capabilities despite being introverts, according to Susan Cain , best-selling author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. ” Henry worried about a whole new generation of young people entering the workforce that use email as its primary form of communication.

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Is Your Nonprofit Too Old To Barf Rainbows on Snapchat?

Beth Kanter

TechSoup wrote up this post based on some very early innovators in 2013, but still only a handful of nonprofits had established a presence. The Annenberg Foundation has been sharing snaps from behind the scenes at its leadership conference. I waited to see if other nonprofits would embrace this emerging social media platform.