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How to Convince Employers to Pay for Professional Development

WBT Systems

Here are three of the most common reasons professional development budgets are sparse (or non-existent) and what you can do to help employees get the money and education they need. A 10 percent increase in workforce education level led to an 8.6 Employers with this mindset have it backwards. People leave managers, not jobs.

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Game Plan 2014: Seeing Around the Corners

Association Adviser

“If you do not have an app for your live events available weeks in advance of your show, then you are missing out on opportunities for growing education, economic development and exchange of ideas.” They need to focus on attracting the attendees with whom the exhibitors want and expect to see with the right education.

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Inside the Minds of Millennial Attendees

Associations Now

Looking to get millennial attendees to your next event? There are 80 million millennials in the United States. Millennials want a true experience, something that is personalized, new, and enables them to meet the right people at the right time. Even better: Some associations are already heeding his advice. Make learning fun.

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Some Especially Great Ideas From Great Ideas 2014

Associations Now

From thinking differently about workspace to expanding reach via pop culture, the 2014 Great Ideas Conference brought out plenty of concepts worth taking to your staff and board—even if you weren’t in Florida this week. — Jamie Notter (@jamienotter) March 10, 2014. Think Local, Reach Millennials.

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Study: What Millennials Look For In An Exhibition

Associations Now

What do millennials want out of your meeting? The “ 2014 Young Professional Attendee Needs and Preferences Study ” found, for example, that four out of five reasons listed by study respondents for attending an event related to learning. The post Study: What Millennials Look For In An Exhibition appeared first on Associations Now.'

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For-Purpose People and Organizations Will Change the World

Reid All About it

I was fortunate enough to come away from the 2014 digitalNow conference in Nashville both recharged and inspired thanks to being surrounded by smart people, good friends, savvy conference organizers and the very cool city of Nashville. Gordon Kennedy and Wayne Kirkpatrick opening digitalNow 2014 (photo by Bill Sheridan). …if

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2013: A Millennial’s Perspective

Association Adviser

This embrace of technology that makes association life easier should be applauded and further supported in 2014. Millennials (and most others) are not impressed by gimmicks, so a true customization of the membership experience is one of the few appropriate responses to this concern. The need for more membership options.