Sun.Aug 11, 2019

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High Quality Educational Content Remains Key for Attendees

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A strong professional community makes for an appealing—and invaluable—meeting destination. Content is king, especially for professional meetings. Despite the increasing desire for novel experiences and non-traditional venues, attendees’ first consideration when deciding to attend a meeting is the quality of the educational content—they go to learn new information and improve skills, according to the The Experiences Institute’s Decision to Attend Study.

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Making Big Changes? Talk About It. A Lot.

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Leaders who are changing their organizations can fall short when it comes to selling the change to employees. CEOs who’ve done it say there’s no such thing as overcommunication. Short of an announcement of layoffs, there are few CEO statements that can strike fear in the hearts of employees quite like “We’re going to change the way things are done around here.”.

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#ASAE19 Keynoters: Leverage “New Power” to Earn Member Loyalty

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Shifting power dynamics require leaders willing to engage the crowd, said “New Power” authors Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans, kicking off #ASAE19 Sunday morning. From associations to mass social movements to video games, the dynamics of power are at work virtually everywhere. But how power plays out is changing dramatically. Kicking off the 2019 ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition in Columbus Sunday morning, keynoters Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans provided several examples of how p