Higher Logic

AUGUST 14, 2015

Your organization might have members lining up for volunteering opportunities, with event positions always overbooked for help and community discussions and blogs bursting at the seams. Example : event coordinator from a member organization plans a community meet up during the annual conference. Tracking Offline Volunteer Engagement.

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Membership Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The statistics from one organization demonstrate this tendency. The same tendency applies to members who renew on an annual basis. We all share this tendency to second-guess a decision. Members who join this association pay their dues through a monthly installment automatic credit card option.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Confirmation bias is the tendency to place the greatest value on information that supports your pre-existing beliefs. Sunk cost fallacy is that soul-sucking tendency to continue investing time, money, or effort into activities that are clearly failing. How members interact with each other, the organization, and the profession.

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.orgSource

APRIL 8, 2024

He is also CEO of Punks and Pinstripes, and as you might guess, it’s a one-of-a-kind organization. They are executive leaders of large organizations who are wired differently. Then, find the people within your organization who will give honest answers. Here’s how Greg describes the group. What won’t we be able to achieve?

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Associations Now

JULY 2, 2023

For instance, leaders can be prone to proximity bias, or favoring employees who are more visible to managers doing the assessment; there’s a “tendency to think that people who are in your physical orbit do the most important work,” Cecchi-Dimeglio wrote. Instead, pay raises are “entirely dependent on overall organizational performance.”

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Associations Now

JANUARY 30, 2023

If your organization is serious about change and pushing new ideas forward, it needs to create a work environment that is psychologically safe, according to new research. The term “innovation” has been thrown around all organizations for years. I don’t think that’s a solution that we can complete within a few weeks.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As a consultant, I’ve worked with associations of every description, and I’ve learned that the organizations that are most successful with digital transformation are also groups that value the human skills. Right now, there is a deficit of trust across social, governmental, and cultural organizations.

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Associations Now

MAY 20, 2019

Want to get a little better at leading your organization? A tendency toward increased risk. A series of recent studies highlights numerous ways that sleep deprivation negatively affects the ability of leaders to do their job properly. Take the hint!). A good night’s sleep might help. Another problem that lack of sleep might cause?

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Higher Logic

JULY 6, 2017

Because introverts can, in fact, be some of the most successful social media and online community managers , all despite their tendency to keep to themselves. Your introvert tendencies make you an excellent fit for community management. What Is an Introvert? 4 Tips to Help Introverts Grow Online Communities.

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Membership Marketing

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

To support action, prospective members need messaging that convinces them that membership in your organization is beneficial. This tendency is why testimonials are so effective in membership marketing. And it can be applied to improve membership marketing efforts. The first application is Attitude.

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Association Leaders

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Here’s a definition from dictionary.com: Negativity is a tendency to be downbeat, disagreeable, and skeptical. How the meeting is organized can have a major impact. They keep your group from spending unnecessary time talking about reports and things that don’t impact the overall goals of the organization. Thank you.”.

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Associations Now

MAY 6, 2019

In the association world and beyond, thought leadership is a frequent topic of discussion—thanks in no small part to the perceived impact it can have on an organization’s bottom line. That’s according to the 2019 Edelman-LinkedIn B2B Thought Leadership Impact Study , a survey of more than 1,200 decision makers. Bersoff, Ph.D.,

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Association Success

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For years, individuals and organizations alike have failed to delve deeper or proactively search beyond face-level results. Also called ‘survivor bias,’ this phenomenon refers to the human tendency to study successful outcomes and ignore the accompanying failures,” wrote HubSpot managing editor Meg Prater.

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Associations Now

APRIL 13, 2020

After years of back-and-forth over the cloud’s security , its tendencies toward downtime , its potential for ballooning costs , questions of process , and its return on investment , the fact is that a huge advantage for cloud computing just emerged: its flexibility in a time of disaster.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 24, 2020

In the weeks leading up to the February Iowa Caucus, we encourage private sector organizations and trade associations to unite and remind employees to Get out the Caucus.”. Never hurts to ask.).

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Reid All About it

AUGUST 11, 2023

If you avoid this time traveling mistake, you can reduce your tendency to procrastinate. Constantine, Partner, Co-chair, Nonprofit Organizations Group, and Andrew L. Steinberg, Counsel, Nonprofit Organizations Group, Venable LLP Thu 8/17 at 1 p.m. Quick hits There is no happiness dial. More info/register. More info/register.

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Associations Now

APRIL 21, 2019

In a number of test cases—a doctor delivering a cancer diagnosis, a gate agent announcing a flight delay—the researchers found that those who hear the bad news have a tendency to ascribe ill intentions to the messenger. Warnings to people about our shoot-the-messenger tendencies—like this post—”are unlikely to be fruitful,” they write.

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Virtual

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The article went on to talk about committees, stating: “In many committee meetings, in today’s big organizations, there is a trend towards the idea that decisions must be unanimous. If one or two members are in disagreement, there is a tendency for the rest of the committee to win them over before moving on.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Katherine Matthews, CAE, talks to Alexandra Mouw, CAE, about the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards’ journey to becoming a data-driven organization. Host: Certification Network Group Speakers: Dawn Crowell Murphy, Special Counsel, Nonprofit Organizations practice, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Allison M.

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MemberClicks

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Many organizations will go with a straightforward: Important Information About Dues. Open rates for consistent emails, like newsletters, have a tendency to drop over time. Some of the most successful email campaigns for associations and chambers contain information about dues. You care about them, and so do your members!

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Associations Now

MAY 13, 2019

We were so blessed with wonderful moderators who love our organization and saw this as a great opportunity to give back. Most leaders approach their work with two goals in mind: employee productivity and organic growth. You need a team of members to take this responsibility on. It’s a low-cost, easy time commitment for your members.

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Smooth The Path

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The organizer put their best effort into it. The on-the-floor organizers are racing about too rushed to talk. Now that the event is a success the organizers turn to efficiency and profitability. The association tendency of pulling out last year’s punch list exacerbates this problem. The vendors were excited.

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Eric Lanke

MARCH 19, 2018

If you don't know what that is, it's a book that describes a simple yet compelling system for getting an organization to focus on and achieve the wildly important. I've written about the book and my own organization's experiments with it many times on this blog. 4DX is not going to help us in taming this tendency. I wondered.

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.orgSource

MARCH 20, 2023

I understand this tendency. It cuts across the entire organization and includes constant communication among staffers and departments to ensure collaboration. Occasionally, clients want a new AMS to translate their analog behavior into a digital format instead of retooling to take advantage of the powerful processes at their disposal.

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Achurch

AUGUST 25, 2021

That article highlighted why it is vital to establish a communication etiquette that is accessible and universally applied across your organization. You have the opportunity to decide what virtual meeting etiquette means for your organization and team. Etiquette applies to everyone—the meeting organizer/host and the participants.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 6, 2020

You also need a road map to bring your vision to life, one that aligns with how your organization needs to adapt to thrive in this changing world. If you want to reshape your organization for the future, you have to take the first step. Don’t let a natural tendency to stick with the status quo lead to entropy. The challenge?

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Reid All About it

JUNE 30, 2017

Ed Schipul, CEO of AMS firm Tendenci, found FBI testimony confirming that NGOs and associations are indeed targets of Russian hackers. If your organization has a webinar scheduled in the near future, please send me the link. Should your association or company be concerned? Be extremely careful about what you click, open, and visit.

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Eric Lanke

AUGUST 15, 2016

Indeed, that's a natural human tendency, and the topic of innumerable books about how to manage teams. Many of us work in highly complex environments, with cross-functional teams comprised of stakeholders in and out of our business units or even our organizations. It's not always obvious. We're all in this together! What game is that?

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Aaron Wolowiec

APRIL 28, 2016

We can be an education playground and members can take lessons learned from our experimentation back to their own organizations. A: As an education and events director for fellow association professionals, my tendency toward being an extreme learner is perhaps the best way I can better my industry.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 27, 2017

Famously, Apple has long had a tendency toward secrecy. The organization, announced in September , was formed with the goal of creating governance standards for the use of artificial intelligence and had the initial backing of Amazon, DeepMind, Google, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft.

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Delcor

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Chris Tubb of the Digital Workplace Group defines the digital workplace as “the collection of all of the digital tools provided by an organization to allow its employees to do their jobs.” By this definition, every organization has a digital workplace, but not every organization has a successful digital workplace.

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Organizations recognize that younger workers aren’t just selfie-happy, narcissistic, promote-me-yesterday kids with an overblown sense of entitlement, but a generation that’s questioning which hierarchies are and aren’t meaningful to them. How have you changed leadership and decision-making at your organization to include younger workers?

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Higher Logic

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In the case of retention, you could work to improve customer service; or work to improve the perception of the organization in the minds of its members; or promote awareness and usage of non-community member benefits; or provide a great member benefit: the community! Successful communities have awesome content. Successful communities are fun.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 25, 2017

Many organizations are diversifying their marketing strategies beyond email, but they have much progress to make to maximize the tools they use, according to a new report from the Content Marketing Institute. Digital strategy diversification has long been a sore spot for content marketers, who have a tendency to stick with what works.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 11, 2019

That shift has consequences for associations, says Heimans, CEO of the social advocacy organization Purpose. Although more people are joining membership-based organizations, Heimans says, a new-power dynamic makes membership much more fluid, meaning not everyone will be a highly engaged, card-carrying member. “A

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Associations Now

AUGUST 29, 2018

A new study from McKinley Advisors points to a gap between associations’ desires to promote diversity within their organizations and their effectiveness in actually doing so. These are the practices, which over time, will get the word out that your organization is not only talking the talk, but you’re walking the walk.

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Higher Logic

JANUARY 26, 2017

The LMB story should be a cautionary tale for all community builders - it doesn’t matter how many fans your organization has or how many people participate in your community. From what I can see, it looks like a need for strict control and a tendency for over-moderation. If you don’t manage it properly, you risk failure.

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