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Association Brain Food: 3.17.23

Reid All About it

. – 9 Biggest Challenges with AMS Implementations and How to Avoid Them Hear insights that can serve as a living checklist for you and your team to review at the beginning of or throughout an implementation process. Host: Meetings Today Speaker: Lain Hensley, founder, Odyssey Teams Inc. 1 CMP credit. More info/register. 1 CAE credit.

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Association Brain Food: 3.24.23

Reid All About it

– Leadership Skills for Today’s Associations Hear about the leadership skills needed for today’s association executives such as communication, decision-making, strategic thinking, team building, and change management. Whether staffed internally or through an agency, 47% of organizations now have this job description within their team.

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Association Brain Food: 4.14.23

Reid All About it

Achurch Consulting explains how the CliftonStrengths assessment is a game-changer for teams , especially hybrid and remote teams. Through (virtual) f2f conversations, connect with peers at other small-staff associations, and chat with supportive professionals who understand and excel at working with smaller teams.

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Role-Playing Exercises: Another Immersive Element for Meetings

Associations Now

Last week, at the 26th Annual Spring Conference of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility , attendees took part in a role-playing exercise where they worked in small teams (acting as the chief sustainability officer of Amazon) to prepare a pitch for a new CSR initiative to CEO Jeff Bezos.

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Maine Principals Adopt Policy for Transgender Athletes

Associations Now

Maine became the fourth state to approve a program that allows transgender high school student-athletes to play for sports teams that match their gender identity. The Maine Principals’ Association last week approved a new policy allowing transgender athletes to play for high school sports teams that match their gender identity.

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Essay Contest Harnesses Student Voices to Fight Hazing

Associations Now

Students are asked to share stories about how their schools and teams build a culture that doesn’t involve hazing of new players. Other allegations of hazing in Vermont , Oklahoma , and Ohio all highlight NFHS’s concern over the “growing hazing epidemic,” Hopkins said. “I Writers of the top three essays win cash prizes.

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Has the Ice Bucket Challenge Spawned Charity Jacking?

Beth Kanter

In the early days of social fundraising in 2008, Erin Ennis who took a winter dip in Vermont’s Lake Champlain as part of a personal challenge to raise money for Special Olympics Vermont. Personal challenges involving cold water and raising money for a charity have been around for a while.

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