Associations depend on their board, staff, and volunteers every step of the way. Volunteers get involved because of the personal and professional aspects of an association and that is exactly what board members must keep in mind when leading. Below
What is worse than scheduling a meeting only to have participants tune out of the conversation? We’ve all had this happen, whether it be a virtual meeting or an in-person meeting. Our first instinct is to be frustrated with those
You have a creative website. You have a fun annual conference. Your trade association has several benefits, yet your member companies seem to drop after the first year. What do you do? The solution is more feasible than you may
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 in new ideas, new opportunities and even new revenue. Here
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 and give them updates on the state of the association.
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 see more than your own family at times. It’s the
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 list has a similar reminder, I encourage you to stop,
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 pointed out that the text format made it difficult for
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 we’re asking everyone to get involved. We don’t want to
Associations depend on their board, staff, and volunteers every step of the way. Volunteers get involved because of the personal
What is worse than scheduling a meeting only to have participants tune out of the conversation? We’ve all had this
You have a creative website. You have a fun annual conference. Your trade association has several benefits, yet your member
Volunteers are the foundation of any non-profit. If you don’t have new volunteers coming into the mix on a regular
The annual conference for each association is a time for reconnecting with peers, industry-specific education, meeting new partners and more.
We’ve all been there, we’ve all had our first day, and we all know the feeling of learning a new
While reviewing my upcoming tasks in our master timeline, I saw the annual reminder to “ask next year’s conference chair
My client’s website recently went through a User Experience Evaluation, which helped us to better understand areas of our website
Most Associations do a big “call for volunteers” because not only do we want to recruit volunteers to fill all