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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

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These are a few of the documents that can be included in online welcome handbooks: Bylaws. Committee descriptions and rosters. Mentors can contact new directors before the meeting to review the agenda, discuss norms for behavior, and answer questions that might be awkward in a more public setting. Financial statements.

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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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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 can send notifications to everyone asking them to review updates to policies and track who’s completed that assignment. Review talking points.

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The Member-Termination Dilemma

Associations Now

May, partner at Rosenberg Martin Greenberg, LLP, and 2015-2016 chair of the ASAE Ethics Committee. Authors of ASAE’s Association Law Handbook and its earlier incarnation, Associations and the Law , identify antitrust and due-process risks for an association that terminates an existing member for reasons beyond failure to pay dues.

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Association Brain Food: 9.23.22

Reid All About it

When developing a new educational program, WBT Systems suggests using a learning strategy canvas because it helps staff, volunteer SMEs, committee members, and others stay aligned during planning discussions and reminds everyone involved where you’re going and how you will get there. Education program development. Hiring lifelong learners.

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Last in the Series: The Interim AE Job Description : Off Stage

Off Stage

Ensures that the association’s current policy handbook covers all necessary topics such as sexual harassment, conflict of interest, and whistleblower policies. Coordinates and serves as ex-officio member of the board of directors and of association committees. Conducts a human resources audit. SAMPLE JOB DESCRIPTION.

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Authors and Social Media: a recap of 12.15 #SMfastfwd

ChatterBachs

shelisrael : @scobleizer & I posted 1st drafts of chapters for Naked Conversations, & had readers review, edit & correct. ASegar : It turns out that conference audiences can create better programs than any event’s program committee. Change Handbook, Gamestorming, Seating Matters, resonate are on the big pile in the office.