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Here’s a big idea: Innovation can be small

Association Success

I bet that if you pull any association’s job posting for a leadership opening, you will find the word “innovation” at least half the time, either as a requirement of the type of person or a descriptor of where the organization is going. This is not the only way to define, measure or think of innovation.

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At One Meeting, Innovative Registration Makes for Happier Attendees

Associations Now

To create innovative and interactive meetings, planners around the nation are raising the bar on productivity and capitalizing on attendee experience. Visit Orlando: How do you define innovation and what are you doing to infuse this into the meetings you plan? Innovation is anything that raises that level of expediency and accuracy.

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The Case for Board Diversity

Associations Now

In a piece on that subject published last week at the Stanford Social Innovation Review , nonprofit professionals Katie Smith Milway and Susan Wolf Ditkoff point to a few examples from the space about how and why they frame those conversations on their boards. These ideas aren’t magic fixes.

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3 Steps to More Inspired Leadership

Association Adviser

Attendees were also able to take home some valuable lessons in leadership from influential thinkers who shared their stories and experiences. Innovation expert and opening keynote speaker Nilofer Merchant told attendees, “Ideas are fuel for innovation.” Ideas can and should come from anywhere and everyone.

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Association Brain Food: 10.20.23

Reid All About it

Equip yourself with innovative approaches to adapt community engagement strategies in an AI-augmented landscape. Explore how immersive technologies, interactive displays and innovative soundscapes are redefining engagement and transforming the event landscape. Learn innovative engagement strategies for this digitally native generation.

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How to Lead Across Generations

Associations Now

Case in point: Earlier this month, the two founders of a nonprofit dedicated to seating gen Zers on boards in Maine published a report on how their effort imploded in spectacular fashion. The article includes some helpful tips for how groups from different generations can find common ground around technology, team-building, and leadership.

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Change is good…right?

Aaron Wolowiec

Most of us realize innovation is key to driving a business forward. in conjunction with the National Business Aviation Association , polled association professionals to learn how they set innovation goals, how they support innovation, what rewards and recognition they offer and how they set metrics for innovation.