Associations Now

MARCH 15, 2023

Many organizations are considering moving to a four-day workweek. Rising gas prices after Hurricane Katrina and the 2007 financial recession led CUPA-HR to introduce the shorter workweek into its 2008 summer schedule to better support staff. “We We’re a four-day organization with a five-day operation.

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Idea Architects

JUNE 22, 2012

Facilitation Friday #25: Five Keys to Strategy Discussions. When was the last time you were in a session intended to produce good strategy that actually did so? Too often strategy conversations are anything but strategic. Participants bring their past experiences and present expectations to the strategy effort.

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Idea Architects

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Using Stories to Advance Your Strategy: Quotes and Questions. —Roger Schank, Tell Me A Story What’s interesting about your organization’s story? —Roger Schank, Tell Me A Story What’s interesting about your organization’s story? What implications does that have for your organization?

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Tear down walls (literally and figuratively)​ Embrace a continuous process​ The Erosion of Confidence Sharon Rice,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, is our resident trend watcher. The police, healthcare organizations, religious groups, financial institutions, and news outlets are all subject to greater scrutiny and skepticism.

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Achurch

JANUARY 21, 2021

All kinds of organizations—Fortune 500s, startups, and associations—are hiring fractional executives. Fractional CIOs, CMOs, COOs, and even CEOs split their time across multiple client organizations. The use of fractional executives took off after the 2008 recession. Reasons for the Growing Demand for Fractional Executives.

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Plexus Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Carter What makes organizations what they are? Why are some organizations radically different than other organizations? As a CEO or senior staff executive, it’s up to you to understand and help lead your organization—but how do you do it? By Virgil R.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Friedman, chair of IAEE’s Future Trends Task Force and president of Time & Place Strategies, Inc., noted that some of the major updates in the 2015 edition address data, including how it relates to capture, strategy, and security; education approaches; physical security; and the impact of the global economic picture.

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Higher Logic

MARCH 2, 2017

After decades of being an unknown, organizations are rapidly beginning to see how community impacts retention, advocacy, support overhead, and sales. That’s spurred a great deal of variety and evolution in community strategy and tactics that’s broken community builders out of their shell. Favorite community management resource?

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Associations Now

AUGUST 8, 2023

In her closing keynote at the 2023 ASAE Annual Meeting & Expo on Tuesday, award-winning documentarian and journalist Soledad O’Brien shared how accurate and honest storytelling can help organizations forward their missions and ultimately make the world a better place. However, the network soon found that to be false.

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GlowGlobally

JANUARY 30, 2009

global association strategy, regional planning and local infrastructure to grow your business. Profiting from Green Meeting Strategy – Beyond the Feel Good » Jan. Profiting from Green Meeting Strategy – Beyond the Feel Good » Jan. Good Meeting Strategy Reduces Risk Abroad. GrowGlobally.org.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 10, 2016

To be successful, you need a solid marketing strategy to recruit the right sponsors and grow your attendance. A lot has changed since the 2008 recession, but most associations have reserve and investment policies that were written before then. For many organizations, digital marketing is a new undertaking. CAE credit.

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AMR Management Services

JULY 25, 2011

How to Create a Content Marketing Strategy. Joe Pulizzi did an excellent job of breaking down the meaning of content marketing and how to maximize your organizations content during The Drake Forum. Your organization should be “the trusted, expert resource in your niche wherever your customers are at online.”

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GlowGlobally

MARCH 20, 2008

global association strategy, regional planning and local infrastructure to grow your business. « Geographic Diversification – Good Strategy for Business. Serious Strategy & Tools for Pursuing Sustainability. Serious Strategy & Tools for Pursuing Sustainability. GrowGlobally.org. Membership.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The latest edition of Tagoras’ Association Learning + Technology report finds that emerging learning technology is out there, but the problem is that organizations don’t have an effective strategy to put it into play. And many organizations are getting serious about mobile as well, with 49.7 Additionally, just 30.2

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GlowGlobally

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

global association strategy, regional planning and local infrastructure to grow your business. « Good Meeting Strategy Reduces Risk Abroad. Profiting from Green Meeting Strategy – Beyond the Feel Good. If you have colleagues or volunteer leaders who still need a reason to consider such a strategy. Membership.

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Eric Lanke

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

SWOT as in Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, two internal and two external assessments that are often helpful to perform in a group context in order to fashion effective strategy. They can turn your SWOT from a simple team-building exercise to an essential part of your strategy and execution function.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 3, 2012

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when the people who were advocating for innovation in organizations were considered a bit on the fringe. Yes, many organizations focus on innovating products. Amaze people with a fundamentally new and more powerful way to do strategy. Strategy Means Change. December 2008 (9).

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Membersuite

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Now, you’re watching the economy and assessing how it might affect your industry, organization, members, and market. If you haven’t already, now’s the time to improve governance processes so your organization can quickly invest resources where they’re most needed. #6: Your association survived the worst of the pandemic. 1: Budget.

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Membership Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Membership marketing – acquiring, engaging, upgrading, and renewing members – is the cornerstone for associations and relationship driven organizations. How to Recognize a Good Strategy? We are told that the organization is going to launch a bold new strategy. Is the strategy actionable? Publications.

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Jamie Notter

APRIL 24, 2012

And it’s not change that people resist in organizations. But that is a small piece of what we face when we’re changing things in organizations. Strategy Means Change. The hard work of business model innovation, to me, is the hard work of solving problems and creating awesome organizations. Change is not hard.

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Jamie Notter

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I suppose that sounds obvious, but when I talk to people about changing the way they lead and manage organizations, I’m not so sure it’s that obvious. He has an awesome case study of an organization that literally operates without a centralized cadre of managers to run things. Strategy Means Change. October 2008 (6).

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Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The second element in our Trellis for human organizations is trustworthy. It’s unfortunately not a word we associate with organizations too frequently. We expect organizations to spin us, to withhold information, to be fake–whatever it takes to get a sale. Creating More Human Organizations. December 2008 (9).

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Jamie Notter

APRIL 30, 2012

The title of my talk is “Unlocking the Power of Human Organizations.” I’ll do two sessions there, the first covering the basic arguments in Humanize , and then the second digging a little more deeply into how you can start to make change in your organization. Creating More Human Organizations. October 2008 (6).

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 31, 2012

This weekend I taught a three-hour session on Systems to students in Georgetown’s Organization Development and Change Leadership Certificate program. The different parts of the system in many organizations spend a lot of time in this dance. Strategy Means Change. Shaking Up Patterns. Posted January 31, 2012. Image credit.

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Jamie Notter

MARCH 2, 2012

Anyway, on Tuesday I did a session on Humanize , and after the session someone came up to me and asked, “So if you had to convince a management team to make their organization more human, could you boil it down to one thing? We want our organizations to be “nimble.” We need better organizations. image credit.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 16, 2012

We have a couple of really big problems, that hit almost every organization, across all industries. By agility, I mean our organizations are constantly complaining about not being nimble enough. And it’s not just strategy–we lack agility at the tactical level too. Creating More Human Organizations.

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The thesis of our book is that organizations need to be more human. Social media has been succeeding very specifically because it taps into what makes us human, and our organizations seem very stuck in a machine-based worldview that is letting us down. We’re not giving you something you can copy or replicate in your organization.

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Jamie Notter

MAY 11, 2012

in Change , Strategy - 3 comments. Besides, you can’t get anywhere unless you have a strategy and some tactics, right? And yes, strategy is important. We literally can’t imagine a world where we’re not centrally defining a strategy and a list of tactics for the minions to implement. Generations.

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 10, 2012

There is no shortage of knowledge out there at our fingertips: knowledge about the best management practices, the best strategies, the best structures, the best cultures. There is an abundance of knowledge out there to support leaders in creating powerful and effective organizations. You must act on it. Consulting. Free Resources.

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Jamie Notter

APRIL 9, 2012

Courage is one of the four human elements–arguably the hardest one for organizations to master. We are arguing that we need more courageous organizations. And we’d be able to talk to other people in the organization about the failure (because it wouldn’t have that stigma attached to it). December 2008 (9).

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Thanks For Playing

MARCH 21, 2012

Seeking community in associations since 2008. Building an integrated communications strategy. On that topic, what is strategy anyway? Great advice from the SocialFish for FB Timelines for organizations. Why do top people leave organizations? ► 2008. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing.

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Jamie Notter

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Yesterday I was interviewed by Michele Price on her Breakthrough Business Strategy internet radio show about our book, Humanize. Conflict also needs to be addressed at the process level if you want your processes to deliver more truth in your organization, which is a part of becoming more Trustworthy as an organization.

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Jamie Notter

APRIL 5, 2012

Let me go out on a limb and suggest that most organizations are not very good at that. That’s why we struggle with collaborating with external organizations (though we ofte pay lip-service to that). Take a look at the places in your organization where people are (supposedly) collaborating. image credit. image credit.

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Thanks For Playing

MAY 2, 2012

Seeking community in associations since 2008. Strategy without context is meaningless. ► 2008. Splash: Refreshment For Your Small-Staff Organization. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing. 02 May 2012. What Im Reading. Less talk – more do. Acronyms quick clicks for April. ► August. (19).

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Jamie Notter

APRIL 19, 2012

in Leadership , Learning , Strategy. I think most of us, when we think of “vision” in the business context, think of lofty goals and a beautiful image of the future where our organization is always the “preeminent” something or other. We need this kind of vision in our organizations. Generations.

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Membership Marketing

JUNE 17, 2010

Membership marketing – acquiring, engaging, upgrading, and renewing members – is the cornerstone for associations and relationship driven organizations. Four Reasons Why Thriving Membership Organizations Stop Growing. At some point every organization will hit a point of getting all the prospects who want to join.

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Jamie Notter

MAY 25, 2012

We want YOU to actually start humanizing your organization. Now we are adding another resource: The “How Human is Your Organization” quiz. It is for individuals who work in organizations (at any level). Creating More Human Organizations. Previous post: Ten Tips to Creating More Open Organizations.

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