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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

Chances are you’ll see something in their mission or values about education. 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.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.29.21

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. 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. Marketing education.

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Education Is Not Just About What’s Happening in the Classroom: Rajika Bhandari, Ph.D.

Association Adviser

Education is one thing no one can ever take away from an individual, but it is something that can be hard to access, especially at the college level and beyond. Institute of International Education. My entire career has been in the space of educational research. Rajika Bhandari, Ph.D., Rajika Bhandari, Ph.D.,

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.21.19

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Maggie McGary shares insights from the Community Roundtable’s 10th Annual State of Community Management report and cross-references them with findings from MGI’s Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report. 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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