Site Visits Made Easy: Event Planning Tips for a Better Attendee Experience
As an event planner, getting to visit the site of my next event in-person is one of the most helpful keys to pulling off a great meeting. Not only are site visits an opportunity to step into the attendee’s shoes,
Three Quick Ways to Increase Volunteerism in Your Association
Volunteers are the foundation of any non-profit. If you don’t have new volunteers coming into the mix on a regular basis, you’re missing a key leadership development opportunity to bring
Shift Your Thinking: Surviving to Thriving
For many association leaders, visions of growth and innovation took a backseat to a focus on maintenance and downright survival these past couple of years. For the world this was
Four Ways to Foster Member Connections Outside of Your Annual Conference
The annual conference for each association is a time for reconnecting with peers, industry-specific education, meeting new partners and more. It is a time for the association to address members
How to engage members in the off-season
Rest. Self-care. Reflection. There are benefits to recharging and resetting our minds (and bodies) when we allow ourselves to do so. Remember what a summer break felt like as a
Raybourn Group International Named Among Best Places to Work in Indiana for the Second Consecutive Year
INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Chamber of Commerce has revealed the rankings for its 2022 Best Places to Work in Indiana program, selecting Raybourn Group International (RGI), an Indianapolis-based association management,
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