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Political Black Swans: Ignore Them at Your Association’s Peril

Association Success

In 2003, widespread protest broke out around me in Azerbaijan, a country formerly part of the Soviet Union. There is a wealth of publically available resources on the health of countries’ political and economic systems. If your association develops a strategy to handle them, your growth will be much smoother.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Timeless Questions, Timely Tactics

Idea Architects

Over the years, Ive developed a dozen questions to draw on during strategy conversations, ones that while timeless in nature almost always can generate new and timely responses. What processes and systems could we implement to more efficiently and effectively do our work? Labels: facilitation , questions , strategy. Newer Post.

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Breaking Through The Guardians Of Change By Addressing The A In ACE

Velvet Chainsaw

They adopt and foster ACE : a change management system that sticks. Once we understand these hidden processes we can design effective change strategies. The brain’s biological operational process uses two systems: X-system or reflexive (automatic) system and the C-system or reflective (controlled) system.

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Facilitation Friday #29: Six Questions for Decision-Making

Idea Architects

Drawing on the discipline of system thinking , effective facilitation helps participants move beyond d iscussing things at the event level, digging deeper to explore the patterns, processes, structures, and mental models influencing what is occurring. Labels: decisions , facilitation , facilitationfriday , strategy. Oct 2003 (1).

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.13.20

Reid All About it

WBT Systems suggests offering adulting programs to help young professionals in your industry survive and thrive in their careers. 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.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.6.20

Reid All About it

WBT Systems explains why and how to map the learner journey at your association. Get a comprehensive overview of the more effective strategies, tools, and techniques to help workers stay productive remotely. Host: Altai Systems. Lessons Learned from Toronto’s 2003 SARS Outbreak. Wed 3/11 at 2 p.m. – More info/register.

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Four Important Things We’ve Learned During Our First Year

Associations Now

Thinking of giving your content strategy a kick? It’s 2013, and the way people work is enormously different from the way they worked in 1993 or even 2003. But it’s very much worth it. So, if you’ll humor me for a second, I’d like to offer a quick look at some of the things we’ve learned.

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