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How to Convince Employers to Pay for Professional Development

WBT Systems

When you’re a lifelong learner, it’s frustrating to see people in positions of power who don’t understand the value of professional development. It’s especially frustrating when these people are employers in your association’s industry or profession. Employers with this mindset have it backwards.

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

WBT Systems

Associations have long been leaders in the lifelong learning business—which is why it’s so shocking to see how few associations support staff’s professional development, according to these survey results from Association Media & Publishing. Identify the skills and knowledge you want to develop. What were the circumstances?

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.29.21

Reid All About it

To help associations increase sponsorship revenue, the Partnership Professionals Network and Dynamic Benchmarking are conducting a survey of association sponsors to find out: Why companies sponsor associations. The report covers much more, including what self-described successful organizations are more likely to do. Sponsor survey.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.21.19

Reid All About it

Are you having a hard time convincing your association’s “old-school” classroom instructors to give online learning a chance? This methodology helps you identify and solve the problems that are costing your organization revenue, attention, engagement, time, and/or relevance. It seems to pay some unexpected dividends.”

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Six Tips for Closing Your Association’s Tech Skills Gap

Associations Now

Finding it hard to get the right technical employees—whether developers or IT administrators? It might be time to play up your organization’s hidden advantages—including, potentially, your location. If your organization is based in an area with a low cost of living, that might be music to the ears of prospective IT employees.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.13.17

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free professional development events for the association community… I’m excited and honored to be heading to Association Charrette today with 19 other association geeks for a weekend full of “insightful conversation about emerging trends and disruptions” in the association industry. Exciting times!

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Could Associations Replace College? (Take 2)

Leading Learning

First, most of the economic gain comes from actually graduating – it is the degree, not the education that creates the most value in employment markets. There is, of course, the argument that college in its traditional, on-campus form is not really about “knowledge acquisition” – it is about the experience. By some reports, U.S.