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Talk Less About Innovation and More About the Future

Associations Now

Resist the temptation to demand instant innovation, and instead motivate your team with conversation about the future. Evidence of that comes by way of the latest edition of the Conference Board’s annual survey of global leaders about their biggest internal and external concerns. Everybody must innovate!

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Association Brain Food: 11.17.23

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Professional development trends survey. Please take six minutes (or less) to complete this survey from Leading Learning/Tagoras. AMS/CRM selection survey. Have a proposal due, but no new ideas? Is your Board ready for innovation?

Price 261
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Association Executives: Provocative Proposals Research Project

Association Subculture

Association Executives: Provocative Proposals Research Project. I believe in innovation. I would like to announce the Association Executives: Provocative Proposals for Change project (that link will take you to my website for a complete description). Second stage is cut. Were now in orbit. Stabilizers up, runnning perfect.

Proposal 100
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Association Brain Food: 3.8.24

Reid All About it

You’ve probably seen survey reports about people registering later for events than in the past. What an Event Attendee Wants Hear insights from a survey of conference attendees about their preferences and sentiments regarding in-person and virtual conferences. Event marketing. 1 CAE credit. More info/register.

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Eric Lanke: It's Not Innovation If It Only Serves You

Eric Lanke

Innovation. Its Not Innovation If It Only Serves You. One thing I struggle with as I try to lead my association towards more innovative practice is the need to define what innovation is and is not in our environment. And I suspected that our members had a need for those printed handouts that the innovative idea ignored.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 12.17.21

Reid All About it

AMS/CRM software selection survey. 501Works, in partnership with Branching Knowledge, is inviting association staff, vendors and consultants to participate in a survey whose purpose is to improve this industry’s friction-ridden and fractured process for selecting, implementing and using AMS/CRM solutions. Change fatigue.

Proposal 195
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How a middle school lesson can increase member engagement

Association Success

In 1943, Maslow, an American psychologist, proposed a new theory of human motivation. Surveys about possible future offerings are a simple way to gather feedback at scale. People crave the insights that come from experience, and the innovation that comes from keeping pace with emerging trends. . How do you keep them around?