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Understand the Three Professional Stages to Improve Association Value

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Here is another way to look for gaps in your association’s value proposition. The results of years of member research show that high-performing professionals tend to move through three stages during their career. Stage Two: Team Success. Even individual contributors focus on team success.

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Industry Study Brings a New Way for Association Professionals to Think About Member Engagement

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There was one theme running so strongly through each member research project I could not ignore it. It was that members who engaged very early in their membership were more excited about the association than members who reported that “the association just grew on them.”

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Developing My Dream Association

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We would plan an innovation program that will help the association be nimble and quick, always seeking to solve member’s problems as the profession or industry evolves.