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Communication Practices to Work Smarter not Harder

Achurch

Establishing communication protocols and practices will help you work smarter, not harder. To improve office communication and collaboration you need management’s support. Establish Communication Guidelines Every communication and collaboration tool must have a unique purpose. But it’s not a solo effort.

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Minimizing Communication Tool Overload

Achurch

Remember when you only needed your phone, email, and sparkling personality to communicate at work? You need the support of management if you want to improve the state of communication and collaboration in your office. Establish Communication Guidelines. Sharing documents. Make asynchronous communication the norm.

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Holiday decorations: Creating fair, easy-to-follow, and owner-supported guidelines

Ungrated

Community associations across the country are coming alive with festive lights and holiday decorations. Many have guidelines for homeowners to follow that detail the timing of when decorations may be displayed before and after the holiday and the hours when lights may be turned on, among other policies.

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How to Empower Community Association Managers to Be More Productive

AvidXchange: Association Management

Community association managers are vital to the overall success of an association management company. After all, they’re responsible for communicating with boards, maintaining properties, and managing finances. Unfortunately, community managers are often stuck dealing with tedious, manual tasks that take up significant amounts of time.

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Crisis Grantmaking: How to Manage and Award Funds Quickly

NXUnite

Grants Management allows you to set up action plans defining the necessary steps and documents that anyone reviewing applications must complete. This ensures that due diligence tasks are completed the same way across your team without additional communication. Budget management tools.

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Daily Buzz: Want to Communicate Better? Build Trust

Associations Now

But effectively communicating takes more than public speaking skills. Trust is a critical element in effective communications. Your board of directors can access this data through a link that updates views in real time—which means no more outdated materials in PDFs and Word documents,” Masiello says. Other Links of Note.

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5 tips on how to use colour to enhance your member communications

Optimist Consulting

It has made me think about the role of colour in communications, so I wanted to share a guest blog from Steven Randall of Ocean Design. In my experience, most membership organisations use colour as a key ingredient within their brand identity and have a selection of approved colours in their guidelines that can be used in all communications.