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2012 is the Year of the Girl

Reid All About it

A few weeks ago I read an article in Fast Company about Anna Maria Chávez, CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA, and the innovative ideas the Girl Scouts have introduced – ideas I’ll return to in a future post. That’s right, it’s about skill development, community service and, most importantly, leadership. Tagged: Leadership.

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Three Reasons Your AMC’s Culture is Important

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Culture drives innovation. For example, if an AMC hasn’t embraced technological innovation for itself, the odds it will embrace technology for a client are lower. How can a board better determine if an AMC prioritizes innovation? Of course, there is a caveat: an AMC can only drive innovation within an association so far.

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New (Free) E-Book: Leading Systems Change Will Supercharge Your Facilitation Skills

Beth Kanter

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings. This section includes templates for meeting processes.

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

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These are a few of the documents that can be included in online welcome handbooks: Bylaws. By instilling the willingness to experiment and explore as a routine part of board service, you can turn your team away from the status quo and toward a more innovative future. You can, and should, also provide written guidance.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.10.17

Reid All About it

Understand the board’s purpose, know the difference between staff and board roles and responsibilities, learn what to put in your board handbook, know how to talk about the board’s legal and fiduciary responsibilities, understand how to use different distribution channels (podcasts, videos, social media, etc.) 1 CAE credit.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Building Creative.

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custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Where TED Talks do so in a video format, ChangeThis does so by releasing attractively-designed manifestos on topics related to leadership and life. Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects. Wednesday, May 16, 2012.

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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits

Beth Kanter

Beyond the First Click examines innovative volunteer engagement work by 35 organisations empowering people to scale change and win by learning and doing more. By investing in Prabhaker’s leadership skills, Haiyya has helped her reach both personal goals and achieve for the organisation. About the Authors.