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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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Financial managers make understanding the group’s risk tolerance a defining component of their strategy. These conversations are limited to bottom-line issues. For some groups that disruption also offered seeds of opportunity. The conversation can easily devolve into unproductive speculation. No one was exempt.

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Be Prepared to Deliver Digital Value

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The organization is active in government advocacy and technical standards, conducts national and regional educational networking conferences, and produces the Furnaces North America business exposition every other year. We’re forcing these conversations, Tom says. Then the board puts on the brakes. Tom advises.

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Delivering Excellence in the Age of AI or Association 4.0

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Part Two When the generative AI bots made their debut in early 2024, they signaled a definitive end to the idea that yesterday’s technology is good enough for today’s members. But organizations that strive to be at the top of the game need to get comfortable with this exercise. Self-evaluation isn’t easy.

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Mastering The Art Of Idea Generation And Sharing

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Whether you’re part of a nonprofit, a dynamic team, or an individual on a mission, having a well-defined strategy for quickly creating and sharing fresh ideas is a must-have in our times. To stay healthy, nonprofits must continually generate and share new ideas. We’ll have 20 minutes for idea generation. Give everybody a turn.

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Give Joy!

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Association professionals routinely deliver amazing things for their organizations. When I Googled “How to create joy at work” these are a few of the best ideas I found. It doesn’t preclude the bad news and uncomfortable conversations that are an inevitable part of being a boss. Cater a healthy group lunch every quarter.

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7 Low-Cost Professional Development Ideas for Nonprofit Staff

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Investing in your team members will not only help you make your organization more effective in the short term, but it will make your best people more likely to stick around long-term. Fortunately, many organizations now offer free virtual conferences and webinars that cover a wide range of topics relevant to the nonprofit sector.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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Our goal was to provide a great forum for networking and meaningful conversations. We asked Nancy MacRae, MS, CEO of the Emergency Nurses Association , to help us frame this conversation by sharing her group’s commitment to that idea. Nancy emphasized one important idea that we don’t consider often enough.