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Improve Your Association?s Value with Reverse Mentoring or Co-Mentoring

Smooth The Path

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. New members might be well versed in new technology and new systems.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.9.21

Reid All About it

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. Hosts: Altai Systems and Ellipsis Partners. Deborah Southerington, Vice President of HR at The MetroHealth System.

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Field Trips: Not Just For Kids, But Meeting Attendees Too

Associations Now

For example, WEFTEC —the Water Environment Federation’s Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference—offers attendees the opportunity to go on facility tours in locations where the meeting is being held. On the schedule is a tour of the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography and scuba diving at Fort Wetherill.

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Wake Up to Educating the Future Workforce

Associations Now

I’d been hearing this for a while now, but I came away from the conference convinced that it’s time for associations to rethink their roles in our education system. For example,when you buy stocks today, does a stock broker broke stocks? Here’s why: Creativity, knowledge, experience, judgment, foresight, intuition.