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.

Strategy 60

Strategy United States Cost Revenue 60

Association Subculture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The Demise of REM and Association Management. We are surrounded by messages about "getting our heads in the game" and "staying the course," and "up with people, you can do it!" Will they change course and redirect resources when the opportunities present themselves? Life changes course. Life is messy.

Innovation 100

Innovation United States Course Association Management 100

Elipsis Partners

MARCH 16, 2009

On associations, technology, parenting, people, meditation, and America. I once took a great course titled The Five Day MBA (thanks, AMA ). The course started with accounting and finance, and moved on through topics such as strategy and leadership. Washington, DC, United States. Monday, March 16, 2009.

DC 40

DC United States Course Washington 40

Association Subculture

JANUARY 20, 2011

My goal is to conduct 300 interviews over the course of this year with current executives to see if we can draw some collective trends out of those interviews that seem possible and achievable. I can offer you some training in the AI methodology of interviewing and will, of course, share the results with you once they are complete.

Proposal 100

Proposal Project Innovation United States 100

GlowGlobally

MARCH 1, 2011

global association strategy, regional planning and local infrastructure to grow your business. Just about anyone that has traveled outside the United States is aware of the Value Added Tax (VAT) imposed by other countries. Like our sales tax varies from state to state, VAT varies a little from country to country.

United States 60

United States Video Course Products 60

Association Subculture

JULY 9, 2010

Experience Versus Memory in Nonprofit Association Management. Our data driven strategies are about to get a little wake up call. Association personnel, myself included, have become obsessed in recent years with “measuring" results. Of course, conducting surveys and gathering data is a valuable activity.

Leadership 100

Leadership Conference United States Survey 100

Association Subculture

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Of course, props must go to my brilliant friend Gina Sutherland, CMP for bringing it to my attention in the first place. Instead of trying to get my undistracted online attention for 48 hours, they hosted four, one hour sessions per day over the course of two weeks. Creativity in Association Management - Are You the Roadblock?

Conference 100

Conference Course Price Education 100

Association Subculture

AUGUST 11, 2010

Crispin cleverly shot across Apples bow with the "Im a PC" campaign which was a really, solid and effective strategy, but I dont think they were going for cool with that one. (If Of course not. At the end of the day, isnt that what we and our associations are here for? The Politics of Dancing (and What If Ideas in Associations).

Miami 100

Miami United States Examples Leadership 100

Association Subculture

JANUARY 19, 2010

Is the executives perspective important when identifying future leaders of the association? I used to have the National Association of Parliamentarians on speed dial.) Of course they should and in fact, your bylaws should reflect their use. Of course not. Creativity in Association Management - Are You the Roadblock?

Leadership 100

Leadership Course Committee United States 100

Association Subculture

MAY 27, 2010

The hope is you will deal more directly with the dynamics you are struggling with in your associations - especially if you dare to drape your membership in trappings of friendship, community and belonging and fail to deliver on that promise. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

Innovation 100

Innovation United States Education Leadership 100

Association Adviser

JANUARY 17, 2018

We recently caught up with Jeffrey Shields, FASAE, CAE, chief executive officer of the National Business Officers Association , the only national association focused exclusively on supporting independent school business officers and business operations staff, and fostering financial and operational excellence among independent PK-12 schools.

Team 69

Team Resources Education Revenue 69

Association Subculture

APRIL 6, 2010

Perhaps we have prudently managed ourselves into irrelevance and failed to notice innovations happening around us? Maybe our profession has run its course and we are no longer in a position to provide anything valuable to our members? She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

Maine 100

Maine Leadership United States Innovation 100

Association Adviser

JANUARY 17, 2018

We recently caught up with Jeffrey Shields, FASAE, CAE, chief executive officer of the National Business Officers Association , the only national association focused exclusively on supporting independent school business officers and business operations staff, and fostering financial and operational excellence among independent PK-12 schools.

Team 61

Team Resources Education Revenue 61

Association Adviser

JANUARY 17, 2018

We recently caught up with Jeffrey Shields, FASAE, CAE, chief executive officer of the National Business Officers Association , the only national association focused exclusively on supporting independent school business officers and business operations staff, and fostering financial and operational excellence among independent PK-12 schools.

Team 60

Team Resources Education Revenue 60

Association Subculture

OCTOBER 7, 2009

So dear readers, lets agree to use the term "series" with a wink and a nod to the association management muse who may take me down other paths from time to time). Written by Bill Taylor, former president of ASAE and published in "Future Perspectives" by the Foundation of the American Society of Association Executives in 1984, page 186.

Leadership 100

Leadership United States Maine Education 100

Association Subculture

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

As you know from my last blog post, I recently experienced the Groundhog Day Effect when reading about different topics in association management published in books back in 1985 but which could have been written yesterday. Labels: association , boomers , change , Gen X , gen y , management , music , workplace.

Education 100

Education United States Leadership Association Management 100

Association Subculture

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Rapid Chapter Expansion – Beware of excited yips around conference rooms that sound like, “Of COURSE we need a chapter in Yreka, population 7,368!” The undisciplined pursuit of more is a heady mixture of danger and daring and often includes stifling dissent, pie eyed optimism and coping strategies (i.e., management.

Recruiting 100

Recruiting Recruitment Leadership Revenue 100

Association Subculture

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Of course, if executives simply pay this idea lip service with titles and "amplified" job descriptions you will soon find an undermined Chief Innovation Officer curled up behind the recycling containers, picking arrows out of their back and slowly drinking themselves into oblivion.). The Waning Days of Leadership in Association Management.

Innovation 100

Innovation Committee United States Leadership 100

Association Subculture

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Star Trek has many more management lessons than a lot of books Ive read. Star Trek also has a lot more to say about ethics than any ethics course Ive ever been to. Ok, guess I need to give myself a Star Trek immersion course. Shelly kept up the fast pace by diving head-long into her career in the world of association management.

Leadership 100

Leadership Course Conference United States 100

GlowGlobally

JANUARY 31, 2014

To begin 2014, we are featuring a new MCI white paper authored by Nikki Walker, MCI’s Vice President for its global association management and consulting practice, based in Dubai, UAE. Have you ever wondered how your association’s brand is perceived specifically by the international community?

Member Engagement 60

Member Engagement Products America Marketing 60

Association Subculture

JANUARY 6, 2011

Of course not. Shelly kept up the fast pace by diving head-long into her career in the world of association management. She is determined to see associations continue to serve as a bulwark of adult education in the United States. Shelly blogs at Association Subculture because her cat is a bad listener.

Sacramento 100

Sacramento DC Leadership United States 100