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Understand the Three Professional Stages to Improve Association Value

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The results of years of member research show that high-performing professionals tend to move through three stages during their career. Stage Two: Team Success. After professionals achieve personal success, they start focusing on team success. Even individual contributors focus on team success.

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How to Leverage Your Association’s Super-Members

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Super-members are members who are so engaged, so seasoned, so advanced in the profession or industry they are not like most members. If your board members fit this profile, they are not good candidates for focus groups to determine the member experience. Don’t ask them to guess what new members need or want.

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Developing My Dream Association

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We would plan an innovation program that will help the association be nimble and quick, always seeking to solve member’s problems as the profession or industry evolves. Related: The new member engagement rule of three. Association trend watch: member experiences. What would you do?

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Three More Problems Attendees Experience at Association Conferences

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These six insights were straight from member research, and I have three more for you. How do I cultivate a high-performing leadership team? Receptions are awkward for most attendees except for a few long-timers. I’m a first-time attendee, and I don’t know how to navigate your conference.

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Peek Behind the Scenes of One Innovative Annual Conference for New Ideas to Use at Your Annual Conference

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What is particularly interesting about this year’s conference is the team methodically set about meeting some of members’ biggest challenges. Here are the top challenges we all have and here is what we did about them: New Members Feel Like Outsiders. Related posts: Intentionally designing member experiences.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.9.21

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Learn how advertising, networking opportunities, and a user-friendly experience work together to benefit community platforms, how to use features of your platform to increase engagement and sense of community, and how to raise non-dues revenue through a great member experience. CAE credits. More info/register. Transactions Corp.