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Our Approach to Membership Needs Something Radically Different

Elevating Engagement

Providing positive experiences can be a team effort, so ask the “How do we want [insert stakeholder group here] to feel” question at your next staff, board, or committee meeting. Check out Elevating Engagement , your new handbook for budding CEOs. Your staff and your volunteer leaders can become CEOs, too. You Go, CEO!

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Is Your Board Stuck in Operations? That May be Okay.

Leading Associations

The more operational support a board receives from staff and/or operational committees, the less it is compelled by organizational demands to get into operations. They tend to have 1-5 full-time staff and may have several operating committees or task forces, but struggle to maintain volunteer “bench strength.” . Learn More!

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

.orgSource

These are a few of the documents that can be included in online welcome handbooks: Bylaws. Committee descriptions and rosters. The chances that people are reading and absorbing this material are slim. You can, and should, also provide written guidance. Financial statements. Minutes of recent meetings. An organizational chart.

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Navigating Board Member Recruitment: A Complete Guide

MemberClicks

Absent board members can lead to meetings without quorum, inactive committees and other board members being overworked. Enthusiastic folks who have time to help but no expertise are best recruited as volunteers or committee members. Be upfront about the time commitment.

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10 Unconventional Ways to Get More Value from Your Association’s LMS

WBT Systems

Once they’re taken the orientation “course,” they’ll continue to have access to the course content as well as other resources like the employee handbook, and security and other IT policies. You could do this by recording interviews with board or committee members or doing a live newscast with a “reporter” on the scene.

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How Do You Fix a Board Power Struggle?

Associations Now

For example, the employee handbook was a relatively new document that came about because of tension over expectations of employees. Practices and agreements were inscribed in this handbook, which was then enrolled into the new network through multiple connections and with a variety of rhetorical consequences.”.

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MCI Sessions @ ASAE in SLC in August

GlowGlobally

Session Presenters: Steen Jakobsen, Steering Committee Member, Dubai Association Center. Attendees will receive cultural handbooks from the Sheikh Mohamed Center for Cultural Understanding, the reference touristic institution in Dubai to learn about the culture of the UAE and the wider Middle East region.