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7 signs of a successful enterprise association

Nimble AMS

Maybe your association is experiencing challenges, so you’re searching for strategies to empower your staff and enhance the member experience. Regardless of your large association’s situation, the Nimble AMS team is here to offer tips to measure your success and meet your future goals!

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Overcoming the Barriers to Association Innovation

Smooth The Path

Innovation is a difficult strategy for any organization past the startup phase to adopt, and associations are no exception. When association executives talk about innovation, we talk about the possibility and how much more we can help members. We want to innovate, but we may be afraid to get started.

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Members Might Need a New Way to Solve Problems

Smooth The Path

The team leader would spend time defining the problem and goal. They would gather a team of the most curious minds. Together the team would follow embark on a handful of steps that you would recognize as design-thinking. I loved those teams and meetings. The team problem-solving approach worked.

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Developing My Dream Association

Smooth The Path

We would use all the member insights we gain to develop our member communications, set our strategy, and create an innovation plan. Another core staff value would be to get insanely good a customer service. We would talk with members often, conduct listening tours, and interview them.

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Building Buy-In for an Online Community at Your Association

Higher Logic

You don't have to be a hypnotist or a master of persuasion to build support for an online community among your association’s board and executive team. Instead, you need to align your new online community with the mission and priorities of your association's leadership. Member Engagement and Retention.

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Be the Voice of Relevance—Make Mission, Vision, and Values Fit the Moment

.orgSource

On the other hand, if innovation presents exciting new opportunities, that is another compelling reason to expand your purpose to meet the moment. Taking the time to analyze whether your values statement matches the behavior you want to promote aligns the organization for success. Values create community.

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Associations that Overreact or Underreact in a Crisis

Smooth The Path

Right now, some associations are overreacting. The trouble is, these leadership teams might cut and layoff so severely there may not be enough person-power to figure out how to add member value in this new environment. Other associations find themselves paralyzed.