Two Cities, Two Events – CEX Registration is Open

Two Cities, Two Events – CEX Registration is Open

Drum roll please! CEX 2024 is here! That’s right … Mariner and Billhighway are doing it again! Join us this May for another unique event designed just for CRPs where we focus entirely on how we can work more effectively with association components. CEX 2024 will have...
Words of Wisdom

Words of Wisdom

From the minds and hearts of CRPs comes wisdom on being a superstar component professional. We asked association execs via LinkedIn, email and conversations for their advice, and here’s a sampling of what we heard. I’ll start though with an observation from Carey...
Volunteer Leader Sessions that Lead to Action

Volunteer Leader Sessions that Lead to Action

This past year saw a return to in-person volunteer leadership training. This means we’re all back to figuring out how to make those annual chapter leadership workshops, volunteer trainings and sharing sessions impactful.  Let’s do a refresh on these...
Help Chapters Be All They Can Be in ’23

Help Chapters Be All They Can Be in ’23

Super excited that Billhighway and Mariner are teaming up to bring two in-person workshops this October aimed at helping our chapters be all they can be in ’23.  I’ve been a CRP (components relations professional) for some 30 years. I began working with...
Tips on communicating with your chapter leaders

Tips on communicating with your chapter leaders

Remember the old Sprint commercial “Can you hear me now?” It’s a great question – a garbled message is never a good thing – and one that we tackled in the July 27th webinar, Can you hear me? Effective practices in communicating with chapter leaders, where we were...
June Idea Swap: Helping Chapters Embrace Change

June Idea Swap: Helping Chapters Embrace Change

We all know that at some point, we need our chapters to change. And whether that change is small or large, we will experience some resistance from chapter leaders. So, what is an association to do? We know resistance to change is natural. Anytime you introduce a new...