Sat.Mar 02, 2019 - Fri.Mar 08, 2019

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How Men and Women Aspiring to Leadership Network Differently

Associations Now

While men often leverage large social networks to find high-level leadership roles, women with the same goal also tend to rely on a close inner circle of other women, according to a new study. Networking is an essential element of career-building in many professions, including association management. But, as a new study points out, networking often works differently based on gender.

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Volunteer Performance Feedback: The Elephant in the Room

AMR Management Services

Volunteers are the lifeblood of our association’s efforts. Their performance affects our association’s outcomes and reputation. Despite this, associations tend to avoid giving volunteers formal.

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Association Management Services: Improving Change Management

HighRoad Solution

In association management, even seemingly small changes can have unexpected consequences.

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How to Solicit Corporate Sponsorships The Right Way

Wild Apricot

Soliciting corporate sponsorships doesn't have to be hard. Here are 3 simple steps to help you secure more sponsors!

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Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Association Member Education

Unlock More Profit and Smarter Packaging for Member Learning Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your association’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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4 signs your association has outgrown spreadsheets for managing member data

YourMembership

Is your association still using spreadsheets to manage member data? It’s fairly common for smaller associations to start out using spreadsheets to track new memberships, member renewal dates, event sign-ups, etc. But spreadsheets can only take you so far. As your organization grows and evolves, you need member management tools that can keep up. So. The post 4 signs your association has outgrown spreadsheets for managing member data appeared first on YourMembership.

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Do You Train Your Board Member’s and Committee Chairs?

Association Leaders

Boards of Directors Members and Committee Chairs are key leaders who determine whether an association is successful or not. What does that mean? It’s simple – associations whose directors and committee chairs are not focused on the organization’s strategic plan, are not consensus builders, and don’t know how to run effective meetings cause their association’s to fail – or at least stagnate.

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February Update: New Attachment and Delivery Options Released

Wild Apricot

The February update includes new feature releases, information on our annual conference, and our guide to starting with Integromat.

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Identify LMS Reporting Requirements Before Starting the Selection Process

WBT Systems

Identify LMS Reporting Requirements Before Starting the Selection Process. Read more about Identify LMS Reporting Requirements Before Starting the Selection Process.

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Coming soon: A behind the scenes look at small staff associations

YourMembership

What are small-staff associations thinking about their organization and their membership these days? Are they preparing for and handling growth? What are their top priorities? These are just some of the questions Community Brands set out to answer in a recent survey of small staff (10 or fewer) associations. The survey was conducted between January.

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2024 Association Survey Results Report

2024 Association Survey Results Report For the 10th year, association professionals across the U.S. and Canada provided a look at the inner workings of their organizations when they replied to GrowthZone’s annual survey. Read the 2024 survey results report to see how your association compares: Top Challenges Retention Rates Non-Renewal Reasons Automatic Renewals Reinstatement Strategies Member Engagement Changes & Strategies Why Members Join Non-Dues Revenue Sources Dues Increases, and more

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You Don’t Need Happy Employees

Jamie Notter

The biggest reason our efforts to improve employee engagement over the last 20 years have been a horrible failure might surprise you: it’s because we’ve been trying to make people happy. Our collective image of an engaged employee is someone who likes coming to work, someone who smiles a lot, someone who has a positive sentiment about their workplace.

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4 Steps to Create Your Omnichannel Engagement Strategy

Higher Logic

Most people like being “regulars.” When you walk into your favorite coffee shop, and the barista greets you warmly, starts preparing the usual for you, and asks how your daughter’s big soccer tournament went, doesn’t it make you feel good? The feeling of being known and cared for is universally appreciated, even if it’s on a small level. Many membership organizations are facing a challenge right now.

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Members Hire Tomorrow’s Associations

Potomac Core

Breaking. Members Hire Tomorrow’s Associations because they have no other choice. Global uncertainty and technological advances are forcing Members to make more informed decisions on how to spend their precious time and money. Members expect their Associations to be nimble, future focused, and having the speed and foresight to help move an Industry forward.

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Looking Back From a Feeling of Triumph

Eric Lanke

My daughter plays the piano and the violin. She's an eighth-grader now, and every year for the past three years she has tried out for our state's Solo & Ensemble Music Festival, in which school children across the state prepare and perform a piece on their instruments, which is judged by a professional music teacher or instructor. Those judged worthy are then invited to participate in the festival, where they again perform their piece, are judged again, and can win ribbons and trophies.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Does Your Employee Survey Measure Symptoms or Causes?

Jamie Notter

By now you should be aware that I’m kind of outraged that collectively we’ve spent billions of dollars on engagement surveys over the last several years, yet we haven’t improved our engagement scores. I think the metrics are a big piece of the problem. This whole time, we’ve been gathering extensive and detailed data—but on the wrong things. Every engagement survey I’ve seen measures symptoms or results.

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How to Be a Noticer: Orienting Learning Towards the Future

Association Success

Inform your education programs with this unique strategy. Is the learning you offer future focused? If you start changing your learning programs once you discover a new direction or need in your industry, it’s likely too late. It takes months or years to retool things like learning design, pathways and marketing. We need to find out what’s going to happen in our industry next year, in five years, and in ten years, then align the learning.

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Bridging the Gap Between the Association and the Members

Smooth The Path

Imagine that your members are on one side of a canyon. This canyon has steep walls, and a raging river with rapids is running through it (maybe even sharks). This metaphorical canyon separates your members from your association. The river represents the gap in understanding members have about the association and what the benefits we provide can do for them.

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International Women’s Day: How the Meetings Industry Is Doing Its Part

Associations Now

The global meetings industry is predominantly female. In honor of Friday’s celebration of the impact women make worldwide, here’s a look at how the meetings industry is doing its part. According to the U.S. Department of Labor , 77 percent of the country’s meeting, convention, and event planners are women. And you can find similar statistics across the globe, including in the United Kingdom and Australia.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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What True Learning Is at Participant-Centered Conferences

Velvet Chainsaw

Putting the participant at the center of your conference programming by becoming more learner-centric, that is planning and offering education sessions that go beyond surface learning, is one of the biggest challenges facing conference organizers today. You need to enable participants to find meaningful and mentally stimulating experiences. The knowledge gap between the stage and the audience has shrunk substantially over the past decade.

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Association Email is Dying

Association Success

It's time to think critically about each email you send. Email is ridiculously important to the health of our association because at most associations email is by far the most used channel to communicate with our members. But email is in trouble! I am not going to address deliverability (although that is a problem). We are not going to talk all the new filters that purposely block and sort association mass emails into spam folders (that’s a problem too).

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2 Easy Ways to Increase Association Non-Dues Revenue

GrowthZone

Tweet. Associations are constantly challenged to increase non-dues revenue. Boosting the bottom line can begin by maximizing what every association already has: a website. Your association’s website is an ultra-efficient way to set up non-dues revenue programs and strategies with minimal effort and maintenance. In Using Technology to Streamline Non-Dues Revenue , association pros can learn about what is and isn’t working for other member-based organizations.

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Daily Buzz: Time to Check In on Member Relations

Associations Now

Members join associations for the value they bring, but they may not feel the benefits long term. Auditing your organization’s member relations function can change that. Also: Is your email worth it? Members are the backbone of every association, but when is the last time your organization checked in on its member relations? “The relationship your association has with its members can make or break a lot of important metrics for your organization including member retention, satisfaction, and much

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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7 Steps to Building a Successful Technology Project Team

Delcor

While there is no recipe for a secret sauce, a successful technology project team has some mandatory ingredients. Here are seven steps to take the next time you’re building a technology project team. Step 1: Get the technology project team’s buy-in. Whether you’re implementing new software or improving an existing system, project team members must understand why the organization is investing in the initiative.

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Book of the Month - March 2019

Association Success

Is your association ready to leave employee disengagement in the past? Editor’s note: Every month, we interview a different author who has valuable insights that are relevant to professionals within the association industry. From widely varying perspectives and specializations, we hope to provide our dedicated audience with quality reading to continue fostering growth and inspiration!

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Think Outside the Building, Not Just the Box

Idea Architects

People looking to innovate have long been admonished to think outside the box. It's good advice so long as one remembers that over time every fresh perspective or new way of thinking becomes a new box from which you must escape. Harvard Business School professor and bestselling author Rosabeth Moss Kanter wants us to do more. She suggests we need to think outside our building full of boxes, somewhat echoing Peter Drucker's concept of the "meaningful outside.

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The Rise of “Vacation Shaming”: How Can You Prevent It?

Associations Now

Due to pressure coming from managers or coworkers, a recent survey says more employees are running into problems taking their PTO. Is your organization vacation shaming? Here’s what to watch out for. It’s good to take time away from the office sometimes, but it’s not always possible for employees to get a week off. That said, it’s worth digging into why that’s the case.

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Here’s a Powerful Marketing Tool Designed for Associations

Show the Benefits of Membership to Your Toughest Prospects. Download this FREE infographic from GrowthZone AMS, Why Join an Association, and start using it as your go-to recruitment and retention marketing tool. Post it on your website. Use it in sales presentations. Or use it as inspiration to create your own version. Infographics have power. They're a quick read.