Spark Consulting

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Mr. Trump ran an intentionally divisive campaign that included: Proposing a religious test for entry to the United States, which is a violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Develop a more transparent and inclusive process of organizational decision-making around ASAE’s advocacy and public policy activities. Constitution.

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Association Adviser

MARCH 11, 2019

Nicole, director of chapter and district relations at AAP, Annie, senior manager for chapter and district relations, and their team of seven manage relationships with 66 AAP chapters across the United States and Canada that build local capacity to implement AAP policies that enhance the well-being of children.

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Ewald in Practice

MAY 5, 2023

In this episode, we are joined by Dave Sternberg, CFRM, author of Fearless Fundraising for Nonprofit Boards and founding partner of Loring, Sternberg and Associates. He walks us through the planning process of fundraising, best practices, and how to measure results. Takeaways: People want to make a difference.

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Thanks For Playing

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Authors Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter use the lens of social media to examine our "modern" business, management, and leadership practices and find them au courant.with the Industrial Revolution. Association blogger and general troublemaker. Top association management Blogs. Alltop Association Management.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 16, 2021

Attendees learn to recognize and outsmart their own “lizard brain” illusions – the mental shortcuts, cognitive biases, and impulsive negativity that are amplified by disruption, and apply the strategies to their own thinking, judgment and decision making processes. Keep it Agile: Community Management Processes.

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

On the Leading Learning podcast (a must-subscribe), Celisa Steele talked with association executive director Shawn Boynes, CAE, about dealing with disruption during the pandemic , taking risks and virtual learning. Governance System Redesign: Designing the Change Process (ASAE DC Ideas Swap). Tue 12/1 at 12 p.m. CAE credits.

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Thanks For Playing

JUNE 28, 2012

But if your CEO never hears the options or sees the thought processes that go into narrowing them down and selecting one, its no wonder she seems constantly in the dark. Labels: leadership. Association blogger and general troublemaker. Top association management Blogs. Alltop Association Management.

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Association Adviser

MARCH 14, 2018

Christina McCoy, AMPED Association Management. Do you remember how you started working in associations? This month’s Corner Office professional, Christina McCoy, CAE , landed her first association job literally hours after taking her last college exam. She currently works for AMPED Association Management in Madison, Wisc.,

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Association Subculture

JULY 29, 2011

What Does the Perfect Association Leader Look Like? Originally posted on SmartBlog on Leadership ). When you consider the range of talents a “perfect leader” might need to have, it is unreasonable to expect any one individual to embody every leadership quality needed to succeed in today’s environment.

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Delcor

APRIL 20, 2023

Tori Miller Liu, the CEO of AIIM, recently put out an article on LinkedIn likening the current landscape of AI technology to the Wild West by highlighting the similarities between the development of AI technology to the “early, lawless days of Western expansion in the United States.”

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Association Subculture

DECEMBER 5, 2011

This video just seems to sum up the process of innovation for me. Shelly kept up the fast pace by diving head-long into her career in the world of association management. She is determined to see associations continue to serve as a bulwark of adult education in the United States. leadership. (9).

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Spark Consulting

MAY 5, 2014

How one association unbundled some of its benefits and packaged them around “clusters of behavior” in its member engagement data. The winter of 2014 brought a lot of cold weather and snow to much of the United States. It was also vital during the planning process as NICSA tinkered with its options.

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Thanks For Playing

JULY 5, 2012

Im always the one urging colleagues to use fewer words and more pictures to share information with senior leadership. Top association management Blogs. Process Killed the Association Star. Alltop Association Management. Association Subculture. Association Advocacy Chick. Twitter Updates.

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Association Subculture

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Im not even part of their staff or their leadership. We simply invoked the process that over time has come to us as naturally as any other interaction in our daily lives. We arent in an inspired, ecstatic state of mind. Its not personal, its a process. Creativity in Association Management - Are You the Roadblock?

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Association Subculture

MARCH 23, 2012

Can we use processes born out of simplification or complication to spark creative or innovative ideas? Shelly kept up the fast pace by diving head-long into her career in the world of association management. She is determined to see associations continue to serve as a bulwark of adult education in the United States.

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Association Subculture

APRIL 11, 2012

As members of an association, we sometimes get into conflict and then go through a reconciliation process. Shelly kept up the fast pace by diving head-long into her career in the world of association management. She is determined to see associations continue to serve as a bulwark of adult education in the United States.

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Association Subculture

AUGUST 24, 2011

When you come out of it - lets get past the constant wrangling over process and get to making a difference. Labels: association , members. Shelly kept up the fast pace by diving head-long into her career in the world of association management. Creativity in Association Management - Are You the Roadblock?

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Association Subculture

APRIL 30, 2012

They were the result of systematically exercising ignorance of normal processes and trying new things. If we are really searching for innovation in the association community, sometimes we need to purposefully strike out into areas that make us uncomfortable, or that we dont know much about. leadership. (9). management. (3).

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Association Subculture

MARCH 19, 2012

In asserting our professional competence, we have forgotten to give members additional outlets to practice their leadership skills and to exercise their autonomy. We create "collaborative" processes, but then exert a great deal of control over the outcomes leaving members feeling like the whole thing was rigged. leadership. (9).

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Observations on Association Management

JULY 22, 2008

Whats even more depressing is the parties lack of leadership in addressing the fundamental problems that have led to our current dilemma. They, too, will not accept the reality that were using too much energy and destroying our environment in the process. For my next post, I will return to a strictly "association management" topic.

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Association Subculture

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

“Community is built not by specialized expertise, or great leadership, or improved services; it is built by great citizens.” Citizens who are not (yet) members can bring just as much (and sometimes more) value to the online community and the association as a whole compared to long-time members who are not present online.

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Association Subculture

JANUARY 12, 2012

Now, I am immersed in a digital environment and very accustomed to highly intuitive search processes. Various sections seem to be organized alphabetically by title, some by author, in what the customer can only assume is an attempt to recreate an "intuitive search process" in a bricks and mortar store. leadership. (9).

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Association Subculture

APRIL 12, 2011

If we adopt the exact language, vocabulary and processes more suited to that environment, we may marginalize ourselves and miss the opportunity to harness and unleash our own life-altering potential. Strategic planning is a bedrock concept for most associations. In my opinion, our strategic planning processes must evolve.

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Association Subculture

MARCH 21, 2011

All policy is designed to facilitate the following four conditions: “to preserve the status quo by excluding change, to reverse a change in process, to accommodate a change underway or to produce a desirable change.” Shelly kept up the fast pace by diving head-long into her career in the world of association management.

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Association Subculture

MARCH 3, 2011

Words Make Worlds - Part 1 - Association Management, Human Ecology and IPOD. Much of the corporate management theory co-opted and applied in the non-profit arena largely ignores the most profound difference between non-profit and for-profit enterprises - the shared leadership structure between volunteers and professional staff.

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Association Subculture

MARCH 8, 2011

” By changing the focus from a punitive, exclusionary process to a more inclusive one we may create additional opportunities to rehabilitate a bad player and encourage them to be a positive contributor instead. Shelly kept up the fast pace by diving head-long into her career in the world of association management.

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Association Subculture

JANUARY 3, 2010

Many of us go through a similar, natural annual process triggered by family, cultural, secular or religious traditions, the gathering of old friends or even the consumption of specific treats we associate with this time of year. Im guessing your organization goes through a similar process at their annual board retreat.

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Association Subculture

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Continued success often masks indicators of potential danger leaving the leadership less inclined to listen to warnings. Members, Members, Members – Beware of leadership which, absent direction from legitimate needs outlined in the mission and vision, begins to obsessively focus on new member acquisition.

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Association Subculture

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

As you know from my last blog post, I recently experienced the Groundhog Day Effect when reading about different topics in association management published in books back in 1985 but which could have been written yesterday. They will expect early in their careers to take part in the decision making process. Great posting Shelly.

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Association Subculture

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Any executive who has participated in some epic battle over serving risotto at the Annual Dinner has forgotten some very clear truths about the decision making process and how easy it is to mess it up. If you allow your fears to drive your decision making process you will default to making decisions reactively and from a defensive position.

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Association Subculture

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

The majority’s rejection of this principle “elevate[s] corporations to a level of deference which has not been seen at least since the days when substantive due process was regularly used to invalidate regulatory legislation thought to unfairly impinge upon established economic interests.” ” Bellotti, 435 U.

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Association Subculture

OCTOBER 7, 2009

So dear readers, lets agree to use the term "series" with a wink and a nod to the association management muse who may take me down other paths from time to time). Here is a process we could follow to navigate the shift between the "Information age" and the new "Conceptual age." (Dan Komen was a Failure at the Board Level.

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Association Subculture

JANUARY 11, 2010

Nobody is going to make this process easy for me, least of all myself. But if authenticity is missing from any one of those pieces we risk erosion of trust on the part of our staff, volunteer leadership and members. Shelly kept up the fast pace by diving head-long into her career in the world of association management.

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Association Subculture

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

To build the kind of teams we always talk about is not the warm and fuzzy, lets-get-to-know-each-other-better kumbaya process some consultants tout. (I The longer a D-lister is allowed to persist in their low performing state, the harder it is to get rid of them. That's why having a spine is one of my demands for leadership.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 10, 2022

Continue reading for two simple tips to guarantee your staff gets the tech training they need to utilize your association management software (AMS). Are they looking for advanced tech training to better utilize your AMS and improve employee processes? Here’s how to take your employee training process to the next level: 1.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Whether it’s due to a merger, new leadership, changing audience demographics or to just keep pace with the competition, at some point all organizations come to the question: “Is it time re-brand?” of online adults in the United States have used voice search. Presenter: Peggy Hoffman, president, Mariner Management.

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GlowGlobally

JANUARY 31, 2014

To begin 2014, we are featuring a new MCI white paper authored by Nikki Walker, MCI’s Vice President for its global association management and consulting practice, based in Dubai, UAE. Have you ever wondered how your association’s brand is perceived specifically by the international community?

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