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Celebrate Women’s History Month with these innovative leaders

Nimble AMS

This year, the United Nations declared the International Women’s Day theme to be “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality.” The 2020 United States Census reports that women have increased STEM employees from 8% in 1970 to 27% in 2019. Happy Women’s History Month ! While women have made great strides in the U.S.

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Innovation and Optimism Drive Membership Growth

Associations Now

And many associations currently seeing membership growth are tapping into the power of innovation and optimism about the future. If someone were to ask me to describe what 2019 feels like in one word, I might say “anxiety.”. The study also found that membership retention is at an all-time high.

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Two Tensions Keeping Senior Event Professionals Up at Night

Velvet Chainsaw

below 2019. The good news is that 2024 is expected to eclipse 2019 results by 3.6%. Whether your results are better or worse than the CEIR index, I think it is a helpful top-line metric for benchmarking and sharing with your organization’s leadership. Event innovation often takes a back seat. One can only hope!)

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Daily Buzz: Don’t Forget About Small-Scale Innovation

Associations Now

Big idea: Successful innovation can be small, too. How do you define innovation? I want to invite you to the real world of innovation: small-sized innovation,” Tatonetti says on Association Success. One way to implement this vision of innovation is to focus on streamlining workflows.

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Book of the Month - February 2019

Association Success

Kevin Ordonez and Sherry Budziak have a combined 40 years of leadership and executive consulting experience. These were innovators and cultural shape-shifters who shared their experiences with disruption. This book highlights skills that leaders can use to outpace change and tame chaos. Association 4.0: says Sherry.

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Here’s a big idea: Innovation can be small

Association Success

I bet that if you pull any association’s job posting for a leadership opening, you will find the word “innovation” at least half the time, either as a requirement of the type of person or a descriptor of where the organization is going. This is not the only way to define, measure or think of innovation.

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Daily Buzz: Is Your Culture Really “Innovative”?

Associations Now

Building an innovative culture? Start by not calling it “innovative.” As associations strive to strengthen workplace culture, creating “collaborative,” “innovative,” and “results-driven” environments is at the top of many organizations’ to-do lists. — Todd M Mickey (@tmickey2) July 2, 2019. Consider donating them.