Hear practical tips from start to finish about how you can produce videos for your association, from equipment advice to solid user-friendly production techniques – whether you have a big equipment budget or a small one.
Associations need visionaries to provide breakthrough ideas for their members. But too often, when such employees are found and hired, their tenure is much shorter than anticipated! (And maybe it's happened to you!) Bill Jerome and Curt Powell, authors of "The Disposable Visionary: a survival guide for change agents," have spent over 10 years studying the paradox of why organizations say they want to change agents and then terminate them when they persistently challenge the status quo. They will share their findings and the keys to successfully fighting internal politics and creating an association that empowers and supports new ideas and innovation.
Many medical member societies would benefit from a digital reboot to modernize their marketing efforts and improve their customer experience. In this talk, Todd Unger, CXO of the American Medical Association gives practical digital marketing, analytics, and martech tips to help you cut through the noise while providing a roadmap to consistently recruit more members and increase member retention rates in 2019 and beyond.
This two-part session will examine how tools associated with StrengthFinder 2.0 can help identify and build leaders at every level in an organization and create positive team habits for staff and volunteers.
Collaboration, decision making, communication, influence skills, and conflict management. These are just a few of the critical skills needed for effective leaders and successful organizations. This presentation will include examples of specific leadership development strategies that engage and develop leaders to ensure that the organization has the talent they need to deliver results today and in the future.
We will collectively discuss strategies and potential outcomes and hear and react to what actually happened. In addition, legal updates will be interspersed throughout the session.
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only thrown a huge monkey wrench into associations’ planned in-person meetings and conferences, but has also thrown a big curve ball into association governance. From canceled membership meetings to virtual board meetings to online elections to an inability to meet governance requirements imposed by law, bylaws or policy, associations are struggling to find answers to a host of pressing governance questions. As you navigate these issues for your own association, where do you find these answers, what are practical, workable solutions to these significant challenges, and what will constitute compliance with the law and your own governing documents?
Highly functional organizations and individual’s successful careers never really stand alone, but it takes the deep development of advisors and finding trustworthy mentors along the way. In this session we’ll venture into insights for the key skills of collaborative leadership, developing mentoring relationships, and building your own personal advisory board. Attendees will walk through the transition from leadership theory to approachable application, and start mapping out the advisors they may need in their organization or career!