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Attracting Millennials: Are you thinking age-appropriately?

Association Adviser

Attracting millennials to your association requires thinking about the different life stages they are living through – and marketing to them appropriately. A lot of articles out there dispense quick advice about how to attract millennials to your association’s membership: reach them on social media! Younger vs. Older Millennials.

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The Secret to Better Leadership

Jamie Notter

I attended a session this week about leadership development in the association world. We talked about different leadership styles, and the need to adapt your style to fit the context, and then we talked about leadership development programs for volunteers. This confusion about the value of leadership is not acceptable.

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Humanize and the Millennial Generation

Jamie Notter

Leadership insight.right when you need it. Humanize and the Millennial Generation. That post was the setup to this one, based on the original question that was posed in one of our Humanize twitter chats, which was “Is the Millennial generation better poised to accept the ideas in Humanize than previous generations.”

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The Leadership Gap Beyond the Generation Gap

Associations Now

A recent study spotlights a generational divide over defining leadership. But we can agree on what leadership is , right? Even the definition of “leadership,” though, isn’t set in stone. That made “leadership” a term more rooted in skepticism about leaders, and demanding more transparency from them.

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The Looming Retirement Crisis

Spark Consulting

I’ve seen figures ranging from 39-49 million, and I find it telling that while it’s easy to get a definitive answer to “how many Boomers are there?” Much like we hear today in regards to Millennials, in the early/mid-90s, associations were freaking out about Gen-X not joining. Reach up, and reach down.

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Association Leaders Weigh in About Member Challenges, Millennials, Talent Development and Pivoting for the Future

Association Adviser

Our colleague Eryn Underwood’s recent article Why Millennials Join Associations and What Associations Can Do to Keep Them has been republished by a number of state society publications, so it appears we struck a nerve. Association Adviser: How is your organization connecting with millennials? Dunham : Definitely regulation.

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Are You Facing These 3 Community Building Challenges?

Higher Logic

You’ll notice there was no definitive answer for where communities live. The most important piece to figuring out where your community fits is getting buy-in from senior leadership. Millennials tend to be very focused on transparency within an organization. 30% said they house their community under marketing.