TIPS ON COMMUNICATING WITH YOUR CHAPTER LEADERS – TEST

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...
Education of the Future: COVID-19 Reboot

Education of the Future: COVID-19 Reboot

“…policies designed ‘to preserve all pre-COVID jobs and employment relationships could prove quite costly’ because they ‘are analogous to policies that prop up dying industries and failing firms.’” Covid-19 Is Also a Reallocation Shock (Becker Friedman Institute...
COVID-19 Reboot for Chapters

COVID-19 Reboot for Chapters

Will chapters survive? This is a question we’ve heard on every virtual idea swap we’ve hosted since the pandemic. Here’s what’s at stake. The dramatic shift to virtual throughout the association community has resulted in a significant blurring of the geographical...
Movement: Get up off your [lower brain] and learn!

Movement: Get up off your [lower brain] and learn!

“For decades, the educational and scientific communities seemed to believe that thinking was thinking and movement was movement, and each was as separate as could be…Today we know better.” Teaching with the Brain in Mind, 2nd Edition – Eric Jensen Whether...
Chapters– A Defensible ROI?

Chapters– A Defensible ROI?

How can we establish a defensible ROI (return on investment) for our chapters? Most of us know how much our chapters cost (staff support, rebates/grants, training programs, tech platforms, etc.), but few seem to have a good handle on the actual return on that...
Red Tape Rant Redux

Red Tape Rant Redux

Philip Howard’s op-ed in today’s Washington Post offered clarity to a personal pet peeve that has raised my blood pressure on far too many occasions when confronted with ham-handed attempts by associations to enforce compliance with their components, committees, etc....