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Video: Embracing Difficult Conversations
Join me for my interview with Ed Wojcicki, Executive Director, Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police. Ed and I talked about the counter-intuitive strategy of running toward difficult conversations rather than away from them, a concept his association has embraced...
5 Ways to Prepare Yourself for Disruption
Are you ready? Ask yourself the tough questions. What if your primary revenue stream was cut in half? What if you lost your largest customer? What if you were handed a pink slip tomorrow? It helps to have a little productive paranoia and game plan the next series of...
Video: Is Coaching or Career Development in Your Association’s Future?
Join me for a conversation with Caroline Dowd-Higgins, Executive Director, Career and Professional Development for the Indiana University Alumni Association to learn how the organization is serving alumni at all stages -- from new graduates to retirees. You’ll learn...
Video: Tackling “technology” as strategy
Moira Edwards, CAE, president, Ellipsis Partners, does a great job explaining the three ways technology supports association work. She also covers how to create an environment that promotes innovation through technology; why technology isn't just for the IT...
Video: Magnetism as Strategy
Many associations suffer from inconsistency in their recruitment and retention efforts. That’s why mapping what’s going to happen, when it’s going to happen, and who’s going to do it is so important. It’s also where technology can help. Identifying touch points -- and...
A re-post from Seth’s Blog: Closing the gate
This post first appeared on Seth Godin's Blog on April 19, 2016 and is shared here with permission. Closing the gate Sooner or later, tribes begin to exclude interested but unaffiliated newcomers. It happens to religious sects, to surfers and to online communities as...
Video: The Secondary Benefit of Strategic Planning
What’s more important: the consensus that emerges as a result of strategic planning or the connections participants make with one another? Planning participants tell me it’s both. Something special happens when you bring people together to chart a course for...
Video: Want to increase membership by 200%?
62% of associations are experiencing flat or declining membership according to Sarah Sladek, CEO of XYZ University and author of Knowing Y: Engage the Next Generation Now. That’s a scary statistic! Are you going to let this happen to your organization or are you...
Relevant Thoughts: Great Leaders
"Great leaders think less about what they have to say and more about what they should ask." -- Mary Byers, CAE