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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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Nancy MacRae, CEO at the Emergency Nurses Association and Kristine Hillmer, President and CEO of the Wisconsin Restaurant Association , steered their members through the challenge. Kristine’s Story The goal of the Kitchen Cabinet was to talk about the great things restaurants do in Milwaukee. But COVID reinforced that lesson.

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To Survive a Crisis, Lean Into Trust—CEOs Share Pandemic Stories

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Nancy MacRae, MS, CEO of the Emergency Nurses Association and Kristine Hillmer, MBA, CAE, and President and CEO of the Wisconsin Restaurant Association , are leaders who guided their members through the rubble toward solid ground. We organized the usual Zoom happy hours. Eroding Trust Trust was the theme for the ColLAB.

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Resilience Rides the Waves of Disruption

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Kristine Hillmer, President and CEO at the Wisconsin Restaurant Association, described this experience to our audience at.orgCommunity’s recent leadership ColLAB event. Pre-COVID, we had a program called the Milwaukee Kitchen Cabinet. We leveraged our connections during COVID by organizing a weekly call to convene the key players.

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Conference Circuit: Human Services

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The American Public Human Services Association’s IT Solutions Management for Human Services Conference begins next week in Milwaukee. Organization: American Public Human Services Association. Venue: Wisconsin Center. City: Milwaukee. Wisconsin Lt. Attendance is expected to hit 1,500. Have a Meeting on the Horizon?

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Three Things To Do Now To Prepare For Next-Gen Members

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After starting a Young Professionals Taskforce for his local state society, a YP shares three things organizations can do today to get ready for next-gen members. That’s why my colleague Emily Viles and I went straight to the source when we created the Young Professionals Taskforce for the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives (WSAE).

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What Star Wars Can Teach You About Talent Management

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Even without deep analysis, we can figure out the Sith approach of force choking staff to death is ineffective in respect to both employee retention and organization morale. To find the answers, I spoke with Mark Peterson, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor who teaches a course that explores Star Wars.

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When It’s Time to Ask Members to Start Paying

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New organizations sometimes face an uphill climb in gaining traction. Food-and-beverage trade group FaB Milwaukee tried a free-to-fee approach. It might make sense to let the organization gain a foothold first, or it you might want to put a dollar value on your offerings from the beginning.