Wow! It’s already the 2nd week of the new year and we haven’t had a chance to tout our accomplishments for 2024! So here’s a quick snapshot of how we helped to train, support and otherwise inform association professionals including staff members, volunteers, and...
In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been planting “shameless plugs” for our upcoming 2-part staff/volunteer liaison training series in several of our posts lately. This time, we’re going all out and promoting it in its full glory (no shameless plug here!). So...
So much to read and so little time to read it all! Here are just a few things we’ve run across lately. Take a look and let us know what you’ve been reading. ⇒ The AI Revolution – Empowering Executives for the Future, by Mark Athitakis of Associations Now,...
Volunteers are the lifeblood of many associations providing indispensable support that often accounts for 25% or more of the association’s total workforce hours. Imagine doing without their subject matter expertise, creativity, connections or efforts. Yet...
We train our volunteers to do volunteer tasks and our staff to do staff tasks. But do we connect the two? After all, they work in tandem to deliver the best value for members and the association. The truth is we don’t always supply our staff with the skills and...
Passing our 20th anniversary got us thinking about the meaning of 20. (Check out Wikipedia which shares that it is the third magic number in physics, or numerology where we find it’s the law of attraction number.) Along the way, we found examples of the power of 20....