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New Employee Orientation: What’s on Your Agenda?

Reid All About it

Orientation shouldn’t only entail filling out forms and signing the employee handbook. When I worked at NAHB, I attended a two-day class for local and state association CEOs. It should help you understand your new organization, members and responsibilities. What should associations teach new staff? A day in the life of your member.

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Disappointment Can Be a Powerful Catalyst

AssociationChat

Over the summer I’d gotten taller (my full height at 5’8 was really tall in comparison to everyone around me…on the first day in my art class one student asked if I was the teacher). Well, here is a listing of the positives and negatives from 1988-1989: Positives: I won a writing contest in my 7th grade English class.

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Membership Hack: Workshop Essentials

Associations Now

Workshops help to reinforce what members were taught in class and are personalized to each individual’s work. For instance, if you took the human resources class, a member might show their updated employee handbook or HR polices,” she says.

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How to Get Your Association to Support Staff’s Professional Development

WBT Systems

Once you know what you want to study, explore all formats, both in-person classes, workshops, conferences, and presentations, and online courses, conferences, summits, and webinars. Review your employee handbook for policies on employee training. Research educational options. Research HR policies. Know what you’re up against.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.13.17

Reid All About it

Innovation today is moving at light speed and to deliver a world-class member experience your association needs to be able to leverage a strong platform to take you there. Presenter: Jerome Wade, CEO, The Epic Advantage. Tue 1/17 at 12:30 p.m. – Why the AMS Platform Supersedes All Else. The New Volunteer Manager’s Toolkit.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.13.17

Reid All About it

Innovation today is moving at light speed and to deliver a world-class member experience your association needs to be able to leverage a strong platform to take you there. Presenter: Jerome Wade, CEO, The Epic Advantage. Tue 1/17 at 12:30 p.m. – Why the AMS Platform Supersedes All Else. The New Volunteer Manager’s Toolkit.

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Now Proven! Using Twitter At Conferences Increases Attendee Engagement

Velvet Chainsaw

Research now shows that when people use Twitter during classes, they are more engaged and learn more. Her results showed that adults who tweet during a class and as part of the instruction: are more engaged with the course content. It’s official! We can now stop debating the issue. are more engaged with the instructor.