
Raybourn Group International a ‘Best Place to Work in Indiana’ for the Third Consecutive Year
The Indiana Chamber of Commerce has revealed the rankings for its 2023 Best Places to Work in Indiana program, selecting Raybourn Group International (RGI), an Indianapolis-based association management, consulting and event planning firm, as the 27th best small employer (15-74

Tips For On-boarding New Staff Members
We’ve all been there, we’ve all had our first day, and we all know the feeling of learning a new workplace and a new group of people that you may

Three Reasons to Reconsider Your Conference Theme
While reviewing my upcoming tasks in our master timeline, I saw the annual reminder to “ask next year’s conference chair for the theme and start logo design.” If your to-do

Emily Wrinkle, DES, Earns Recognition at the 2022 MPI Indiana IMPRESS Awards
INDIANAPOLIS (April 29, 2022) – Emily Wrinkle, DES, was recognized at the 2022 IMPRESS Awards hosted by the MPI Indiana Chapter. Wrinkle was awarded the One to Watch award as

Making Your Communications More Accessible
My client’s website recently went through a User Experience Evaluation, which helped us to better understand areas of our website that weren’t beneficial to our audience. One of the auditors

Volunteer Recruitment: Identifying Potential Volunteers
Most Associations do a big “call for volunteers” because not only do we want to recruit volunteers to fill all of our positions, we also want to make sure that

Raybourn Group International’s Emilie Perkins Named to CMP Fellow Inaugural Class
INDIANAPOLIS (April 7, 2022) - Emilie Perkins, CAE, CMP, CMM, PMP, CED, Director of Client and Conference Services at Raybourn Group International (RGI), was named to the inaugural CMP (Certified

How to have hard conversations around the board table
Every association is faced with tough conversations in the board room. Here are several strategies to help ensure discussions go smoothly and end in a positive result for the board

What do volunteers want to do? How does it align with our mission?
Volunteer recruitment seems to be a universal problem. We know it is a challenge to fill all of our committees but do we really understand why we are struggling? With

Event Planning in a Post-Pandemic World
Bring it back to basics. Throughout the pandemic, organizations have been challenged to evaluate and reimagine their programs and events. While the underlying reason was not positive, hopefully the outcome

Should my association start a podcast?
This question about podcasts is one I hear more and more frequently each year, and it’s a good one to ask. There are many benefits to launching a podcast, from