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How Gaps in Higher Education Create Big Opportunities for Associations

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New graduates, including millennials and the up-and-coming gen z, also happen to be one of the markets associations are targeting. Bridge the gap and you clearly communicate your value to millennials as well as other young workers, helping convince them to join your association. This is a clear problem.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.13.16

Reid All About it

Presenters: Tom Jelen, Director of Digital Communications, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Learn what other associations are doing to address the opportunities and challenges that new technologies and the rise of Millennials have brought to chapters. More information/registration. Host: Gravitate Solutions. 1 CAE credit.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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Experiences like the following make Millennials and GenX, groups that associations are seeking to engage, consider even long-standing organizations with a dose of suspicion. Intention, transparency, good communication, and relevance are needed to maintain or restore trust. Trust is tied to value.

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The World of Opportunities for AMCs: A YM Perspective

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It is an alarming trend we began to witness following the 2008 recession. Younger members, especially millennials, have experienced technology as a key component of their entire education experiences, have expectations that will put pressure on associations not investing in current technology. Generational Pressures.

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The Hourglass Blog: A Lost Generation of Leadership?

The Hourglass Blog

The global economic meltdown of 2008 and 2009 was a crucible experience for them in that they recognize that the way we were going until then was headed for sheer destruction. link] "baby-boom-millennial-leadership"? Labels: Developing Millennial Leaders , Leadership , Pretending Gen X Doesnt Exist. Communication.

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Membership Wakeup Call for Associations

Association Adviser

Many associations tell us their membership is back to where it was before the 2008-09 downturn, perhaps even a bit better. Associations must adapt to shifting demographics, new communication platforms and changing member preferences. So why aren’t we popping the champagne corks? It’s cautious optimism at best. Here’s why. world on a 1.0

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Leadership and the Future of Volunteering

Associations Now

ASAE’s 2008 publication The Decision to Volunteer reported that while association volunteers generally feel positive about their volunteer experience, a large chunk of members want nothing to do with it: 27.9 Volunteers are the lifeblood of your organization. Why, then, are people so eager to avoid it? ” Three Fixes.