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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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Nancy MacRae, CEO at the Emergency Nurses Association and Kristine Hillmer, President and CEO of the Wisconsin Restaurant Association , steered their members through the challenge. Kristine’s Story The goal of the Kitchen Cabinet was to talk about the great things restaurants do in Milwaukee. But COVID reinforced that lesson.

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What Star Wars Can Teach You About Talent Management

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To find the answers, I spoke with Mark Peterson, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor who teaches a course that explores Star Wars. The Jedi approach, which emphasized mentoring and guiding talent along their journey to reach their full potential, seems the clear winner if we’re seeking methods to emulate.

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When It’s Time to Ask Members to Start Paying

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Food-and-beverage trade group FaB Milwaukee tried a free-to-fee approach. One Milwaukee food-and-beverage group chose to do the former, but it recognized when the moment came to ask members to start paying their way. What comes first, the membership or the dues? For many new associations, this can be a challenging question.

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Higher-Ed Learning Trends Associations Need to Know

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Despite this, the report offers a few examples that illustrate personalized learning in action, including an American Psychological Association/University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee collaboration that allows psychology students to take courses that mix a self-paced learning tool with personalized feedback and support from instructors.

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Don’t Forget Your Members are People

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And, of course, what are you, as the community manager, trying to accomplish? Last, as shared here at Associations Now last week, FaB Milwaukee, a small trade group for food and beverage industry manufacturers in southeast Wisconsin, began collecting member dues in August after initially forming in March 2012.