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Music City, Our Thought Leadership Team, and a Memorable 2014

YourMembership

Downtown Nashville also provided the perfect setting to host the second YM Thought Leader Summit, where we pulled together many of the people who so generously share their time and talents to help drive YourMembership’s thought leadership initiatives. Below are the Thought Leadership sessions from Xperience 2014. CAE Webinar Series.

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Association Evolution: What Association Leaders are Thinking About for 2013 and Beyond

Portage Group

Well, it''s 2013 and we''re still here. So, to kick off 2013 on the ARC blog, I thought I''d share four (just four!) Recruitment and Retention: We all have been hearing about this for years - the baby boomers are leaving the workforce and there aren''t enough people behind them to fill the gap.

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Association Evolution: What Association Leaders are Thinking About for 2013 and Beyond

Portage Group

Well, it's 2013 and we're still here. So, to kick off 2013 on the ARC blog, I thought I'd share four (just four!) The Mayans mixed things up, got tired of writing their calendar or maybe they just wanted to freak us out a bit. The association sector is changing in so many ways, I hardly know where to begin.

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The Folly of Suppressing Overhead

Eric Lanke

Suppressing overhead suffocates organizations and leads to higher turnover, poorer leadership, and worse service." But any organization that needs talented staff to design and deliver service programs needed by its constituents, must allocate the appropriate resources to recruiting and retaining that talented staff.

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Time to get in the game. There’s a game being played?

YourMembership

Last week we hosted our monthly Thought Leadership Webinar , featuring a whitepaper published by Association Laboratory entitled Looking Forward 2014: An Environmental Scanning Whitepaper for the Association Industry. million openings listed in the final report for 2013. That’s up from 3.8 And yes, the game is most definitely on.

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SXSW is here! Association Weekly Wrap-Up for March 8th!

YourMembership

We know that there are key points when recruiting new members to any organization that are crucial to survival. But focusing only on recruitment can be a big mistake if you are ignoring the qualities, characteristics and attributes that attracted members in the first place. by Megan Rockett. by Jeff Hurt.

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Social Media Roundup: Hire and Nurture Innovators

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2013/04/18/the… via @ im_innovation #mpi #eventprofs. — Jason Hensel (@pimplomat) April 19, 2013. According to an IBM study, creativity has become the top leadership trait in most industries. Recruiting Brand Ambassadors. — Adagio Valet (@AdagioValet) April 19, 2013. ” (ht @pimplomat ).