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How Associations Can Begin Addressing Climate Change

Associations Now

A newly released white paper explores what leaders can do to ensure both their organizations and members stay resilient and adapt as they confront climate change. That’s where Engel and Alcorn’s recently released white paper “ The Time is Now: Association Resilience and Adaption and the Anthropocene Climate Disruption ,” comes in.

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Innovating the Lean Startup Way

Eric Lanke

Elizabeth Weaver Engel of Spark Consulting has another white paper out. You should read the white paper if you're interested. Associations, generally, are "resource-poor environments." In my own phraseology, our goals are often bigger than our resources. The white paper has plenty of ideas.

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Engagement: It’s Not About You

Spark Consulting

People talked about engagement as the key to recruitment, retention, and upselling, whether that means getting members to invest money by buying stuff or invest time by taking volunteer positions. The way we invest association resources, including money, staff, and time? People talked about scoring systems. Our organizational focus?

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 12.10.21

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. I’m happy to see this issue getting more attention in our community, and much of the credit goes to Samantha Evans, CAE , who has become an accessibility resource for so many on ASAE Collaborate and elsewhere. Accessibility expertise. CMP credit.

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Digital Transformation: It’s All About Culture

Mariner Management

In order to be successful, you’ll need strong, consistent support from your national headquarters leadership, actively providing direction and the resources for that change to happen; and from your chapter leaders, who need a clear understanding what the plan is, what the goals are, and the role that the chapters will play. Recruit your team.

Maine 62
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Association Brain Food Weekly: 12.13.19

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… I just bought a wreath at the farmers market and I’m listening to the Christmas Cocktail Jazz playlist on Spotify. Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter at Human Workplaces released a new white paper on a maturity model for workplace culture.

Raleigh 259
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Does your chapter toolkit have a well-designed self-assessment?

Mariner Management

To keep the focus on performance, ask about compliance checklist items, but only score the short list of things that are true indicators of performance, for example, member recruitment and retention, market penetration, non-dues revenue sources, and gross receipts. Drive Chapter Behavior with Targeted Benchmarking (webinar).