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Governance and Strategy: Steps from Administrative Management to Strategic Leadership

SCD Group

The Solution: The society was volunteer-managed until 2003, then contracted with a firm for administrative support. Take-aways: Board members cannot become good leaders until they have seen good management. The board had been successful growing the organization to that point by being hands on, with concrete tasks and deadlines.

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SCD Group: Does print still work for association marketing.

SCD Group

Although the percentage might seem small, it has tripled since 2003. “Associates often see customers come to the store with our direct mail and catalogs asking for specific merchandise.” “Associates often see customers come to the store with our direct mail and catalogs asking for specific merchandise.”

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.13.20

Reid All About it

Join a two-hour dive into the key challenges, crisis management strategies, and solutions needed for meetings and events. Learn how to adopt a new learning strategy that aligns with today’s learners. Lessons Learned from Toronto’s 2003 SARS Outbreak. More info/register. Host: Matrix Group. Tue 3/17 at 12 p.m. –

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Sift Skills: The Value of Big Data for Associations

Associations Now

John Dorman has worked at the Texas Medical Association for 29 years, and for most of that time, business decisions were made, more or less, from the gut. “We Experts say it’s important to have the support of senior management and to think about this undertaking as a culture change, not a project with a start and finish point. “I

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Association Subculture: Why Being Anti-Indispensability is Pro.

Association Subculture

But if I have to pursue other means of legislative advocacy that impacts associations because ASAE chooses not to - does that make their legislative program indispensable? Ive had my membership since 2003 or maybe 2004. Shelly kept up the fast pace by diving head-long into her career in the world of association management.

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Writing the Financial Policy : Off Stage

Off Stage

Writing An Association Financial Policy (Reprint) By Judith Lindenau, CAE, RCE. May 30, 2003. Many AEs spend a great deal of time writing and revising association. Associations spend significant. area of association management, even though significantly few of us have. Financial Management.

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