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Does Your Governance Structure Need a Reboot?

Associations Now

There’s similar softness when it comes to committees: Only 28 percent of boards say they set desired strategic outcomes for their committees. The most popular ones involve casual relationship-building: Conversations with industry leaders, close communication with members of the nominating committee.

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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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A healthy balance sheet is the source of innovation, impact, and engagement. The treasurer and the finance committee also have important roles to play. Organize panel discussions featuring the Finance Committee. So how do you make the financial report a bingeable presentation? Is that even possible? Financial literacy workshops.

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Move DEI Beyond Words

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It’s easy to demonstrate the correlation between diversity, innovation, engagement, and increased revenue. These are a few basic guidelines for writing an effective statement. Appointing an oversight committee will ensure a strong launch and continuous progress. Do the research. Collect, analyze, and share the data.

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Make Ethics Support a Member Benefit

Associations Now

Ethical dilemmas can arise in any industry or profession, and while an association might have a code of conduct, ethical guidelines, or an ethics committee, the organization may not be the first place a member thinks to turn when facing a murky gray area.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.15.21

Reid All About it

High-performing committees. WBT Systems describes how to establish a high-performing professional development committee. It starts with your association taking a holistic approach to learning, evaluating whether the committee approach is the best strategy, developing committee charges, and rethinking volunteer selection and training.

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Strategic planning: Gimme a break?

Association Success

Does a strategic plan conjure up visions of fat binders, death by meeting, rigid guidelines, longer than ever to-do lists, and fancy charts that detract from your true mission? A good strategic plan fosters innovation by addressing environmental issues, prioritizing programs, and allocating required resources.

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Content Marketing: Just Do It!

Vanguard Tech

Go beyond your traditional journal editorial staff and embrace department directors, members, task forces and committees to create content. Create an editorial guideline for content creators and include an editorial review to ensure consistent quality. I am an innovator in identify new content ideas. Find a Common Voice.

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