Associations Now

APRIL 16, 2020

Despite the large economic hit the meetings sector is dealing with due to coronavirus, industry professionals, venues, and organizations have still found ways to support one another and their communities. Earlier this week, close to 11,000 industry professionals came together for Global Meetings Industry Day: Virtual.

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Smooth The Path

JUNE 21, 2018

Take reverse-mentoring for example. Philip Tedesco, CEO of the Rhode Island Association of Realtors , noticed that when they got the Past Presidents’ Council together with the Young Professionals Network, there was more than just a one-way dialogue. They know the profession or industry. They know the connectors.

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Associations Now

APRIL 27, 2017

Industries from tech to the trades are struggling with workforce shortages in their industries. Over here at Associations Now , we hear from a lot of associations about how their industries are facing workforce shortages. Other associations have approached the workforce shortage in their respective industries in different ways.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 14, 2018

Check out a few examples of associations big and small offering such programs for their respective industries. Associations are well-suited to offer these kinds of apprenticeships as a way to attract new kinds of workers to their respective industries. Apprenticeships are growing in importance. Labor Department.

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Associations Now

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The Rhode Island Library Association is getting people talking with its new 2014 calendar featuring librarians and their tats. Want to get people talking about your industry? Try challenging a stereotype like the Rhode Island Library Association, which recently released a calendar of tattooed librarians. “It

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Reid All About it

JULY 9, 2021

The training of frontline (public-facing) employees has traditionally been the purview of a company’s HR department or, as with alcohol service training, for example, outsourced to a for-profit specializing in that niche. Presenter: Julie Haddix, Senior Director, Industry Solutions for Cvent. Office myth. Would fresh clams be better?

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Associations Now

JULY 6, 2017

In our daily news meetings here at Associations Now , we talk a lot about how associations are working to draw talent to their respective industries in various ways. In another example, the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors Association deployed a multimedia initiative focused on bringing more millennials into the workforce.

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