Association Leaders

JULY 8, 2014

'If you study leadership, read about great leaders throughout history, or even if you just think about what you should do (and not do) to be a good leader, you may come away with a very wrong conclusion – that good leaders are always the smartest people in their organization and therefore have all the answers. If you look a little deeper in your examination of leadership and great leaders though, you will discover that the very best leaders, the ones who were able to sustain greatness for

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Wild Apricot

JULY 11, 2014

'This week’s link round-up offers 5 posts with insight into: challenging association best practices; motivating repeat volunteers; help with making social media matter; and using empathy maps to improve event success.

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Optimist Consulting

JULY 9, 2014

'I have blogged before about content marketing for membership bodies. As you probably know, content marketing focuses on producing additional material (which can be written, video, graphics, in-person etc) around the topic to help promote your service/product rather than simply sending promotional messages. I feel that membership bodies are in a lucky position in that they already have an engaged audience that can be ‘used’ to create content.

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Eric Lanke

JULY 7, 2014

'image source I found this post of the Harvard Business Review blog thought-provoking. It advocates for corporate boards to serve as a kind of innovation committee for the corporations they are put in place to safeguard. In one example, the post talks about the movement as it is afoot at Diebold, a manufacturer of ATMs and security systems.in conducting its annual self-evaluation, the board found that a number of its directors had recommended that a board committee be created to work explicitly

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JULY 10, 2014

Last month we held our Thought Leadership webinar, Flipping the Membership Equation: Thinking Different about Member Retention and Recruitment , and it turned out to be the largest turnout for the webinar series to date. It became very apparent to us in the days leading up to the broadcast that this was a hot button topic for many organizations. I received a large number of emails from people wanting to make sure they had a spot reserved for the broadcast.

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Optimist Consulting

JULY 9, 2014

'Governance changes can be a difficult sell to members. They can be complex (and not always very interesting!) which can prove difficult to communicate to members in an engaging way. The key in my experience is to use a multi-platform and multi-message approach – you want to give members the greatest chance of receiving and understanding the message.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 7, 2014

'This is a guest post from Eric Lanke , the CEO of the Fluid Power Association. How does an association executive build and sustain the culture of his organization? Specifically, what is his role versus others in the organization’s hierarchy? Conventional wisdom says culture comes from the top and, in many respects, that’s true. But associations, like all organizations, are systems.

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Virtual

JULY 10, 2014

'Anyone who came of age in the 1980’s remembers the early days of MTV (back when they still played music videos.) MTV premiered in 1981 with the Buggles “Video Killed the Radio Star.” Never has so significant a change been heralded by a more mediocre song. Because video did more than kill the radio star. It’s fundamentally changed the way we communicate.

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Wild Apricot

JULY 10, 2014

'Our Small Membership Survey report is now available. Here''s a look at some of the highlights.

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Optimist Consulting

JULY 9, 2014

'The next General Election is under a year away, taking place on 7 May 2015. Are you planning to produce your own manifesto on behalf of members? It can be a good exercise to clarify your organisation’s policy objectives, engage your members and raise your organisation’s profile. Those of you with public affairs teams have probably already started, but here are a few points to think about: 1) Start now.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 8, 2014

'Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box. by the Arbinger Institute. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2010. This book argues that many problems we face internally in our organizations (conflict among employees or silos, nasty bosses, ineffective employees, etc.) can actually be traced back to some basic psychological defense mechanisms in all of us.

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Virtual

JULY 8, 2014

'Everybody makes mistakes. That phrase is a cliché because it’s so true. And we make mistakes here at Virtual as well. They key is in how you recover from them. Check out this story: [link]. It tells the story better than I can of how we recovered from a recent mistake with one of our clients. Think about mistakes you’ve made with your association.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 10, 2014

'We could all use a little more empathy…and a little less yelling! And your organization could definitely cultivate more empathetic team members who help plan and design your conference and education offerings. Why We Need More Empathy For Our Stakeholders. Empathy is walking in another person’s shoes and understanding life through their eyes. It is trying to experience and feel what they are feeling.

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Optimist Consulting

JULY 9, 2014

'Interest in traditional politics is waning; membership of traditional political parties is falling and there was only a 65% turnout at the last general election. However, online petitioning is growing, with hundreds of thousands of people regularly adding their voice to petitions about things that matter to them. I think online campaigning organisations like Change.org and 38 Degrees offer lots of good practice and ideas that membership bodies should take note of.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 9, 2014

'One of the main points that I make in my keynote speeches these days is that we are currently standing in the neutral zone between two distinct eras of leadership and management. The old era started in the early 1900s, as we ramped up the industrial age, and for the first time in history we actually needed “management” on a widespread basis.

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Vanguard Tech

JULY 8, 2014

'This is the first in a series of blog posts based on the “5 Website Improvements to Make in 5 Minutes (or Less)” session I co-presented with Maggie McGary at the ASAE Membership, Marketing and Communications Conference in June 2014. Each post will cover one of the elements we discussed in more detail with today’s post covering Visual Hierarchy.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 11, 2014

'If the only conference numbers you care about are attendance, exhibitors, revenue and profits, you will never be able to understand why those numbers fluctuate. You’re only guessing and planning conference programming through a shot-gun approach if you don’t get serious about measurement. It’s time to stop relying on your gut. Or your volunteer conference planning committee.

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Associations Now

JULY 9, 2014

'Sure, you can ask members what they want, but designing association benefits isn’t their job. It’s yours, and it starts with seeing the world from your members’ eyes. Without the input and contributions of members and volunteers, the work we do here at Associations Now (and, more broadly, across ASAE) would not be possible. Over my time here, though, I’ve noticed a consistent dynamic in our collaborative work to generate story ideas.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 11, 2014

'In Chapter 5 of Humanize , we actually go back a few centuries in our analysis, pointing out that the entire western world has been looking at the universe in a very mechanistic way since the 1600s, and we have Sir Isaac Newton and his contemporaries to blame. They revolutionized science in avery short amount of time, and they felt their discoveries connected more deeply to the nature of the universe.

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Idea Architects

JULY 10, 2014

'Four seemingly innocent words that so often unleash such mayhem when expressed: what do you think? I witnessed this phenomenon in a retreat I recently facilitated. A staff member, eager to get feedback from board members, posed that simple question: "What do you think?" We''ve probably all learned the shortcomings of close-ended questions, but I''m not sure as much attention is paid to the possible pitfalls of open-ended questions.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 7, 2014

'I’m excited to announce that Donna Kastner has been promoted to VP, Expo/Sponsor Sales & Activation at Velvet Chainsaw Consulting! Donna’s contributions to our client consulting projects and innovation have grown steadily since joining our team two and a half years ago. Most notably, she’s led the charge for progressing our consulting muscles in the area of sponsor growth strategies for our clients.

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Associations Now

JULY 10, 2014

'By building a new digital system intended to cut the time needed for academic reviews of books, the American Anthropological Association hopes to refine digital workflows and save money. Good news for anthropologists: Your peer-reviewing process is about to enter the 21st century. This week, the American Anthropological Association announced it is working to launch a new digital process for scholarly book reviews, upgrading what can sometimes be a clunky process with something a little easier t

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Association Mavens

JULY 7, 2014

'Nikki Walker is the Vice President of MCI Group – the largest global association management and consulting company in the world. We discuss the recently released results of their first year of a multi-year series, produced in collaboration with ASAE, looking at how successful North American associations are growing globally. The post Associations and Global Growth: An Interview with Nikki Walker of MCI Group appeared first on Association Strategies, Association Videos | Association Mavens.

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SCD Group

JULY 8, 2014

'Photo of Courtney Anderson of University of South Florida A photo of a high jumper in the NCAA finals sent my mind drifting back to the early 1960s. Prior to 1965, the "best practice" in the high jump track & field event was the straddle jump. Then, along came Dick Fosbury. Given the new technology (deep foam matting had replaced sand pits as the landing area), Fosbury ignored the old best practice for high jumping and created what became known as the Fosbury Flop.

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Association Adviser

JULY 10, 2014

'The Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation took effect July 1, 2014. If you conduct business or have members in Canada, you may be aware that enforcement of the Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) went into effect on July 1 st. This law requires the sender of any commercial electronic message to have the consent of Canadian email recipient to receive such email.

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