Have you ever sat in a board meeting gnashing your teeth and saying to yourself, “When is this meeting going to be over?” or “Why won’t they listen to me?”
BY JOE ROMINIECKI / SEP 23, 2015 (iStock/Thinkstock) Any association staffer who interacts with members and prospects influences the membership experience. Research from the retail sector suggests simple training on
BY ERNIE SMITH / SEP 8, 2015 NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (Allison Joyce/Getty Images) The big lesson from Tom Brady’s successful court fight against a suspension doesn’t involve the quarterback. It’s
BY JOE ROMINIECKI / SEP 9, 2015 (iStock/Thinkstock) In baseball, “Wins Above Replacement” has become a powerful metric for connecting player performance to teams’ missions: winning games. Associations have missions, too,
BY JOE ROMINIECKI / MAR 18, 2015 (iStock/Thinkstock) Associations have long wondered how to get more members to update their profile info. One association says the
I get a lot of questions about member fees and have begun to see some interesting changes in them. A tourism organization recently discontinued their fee structure and replaced the
THE VALUE OF SHARING MISTAKES BY MARK ATHITAKIS / JUL 6, 2015(iStock/Thinkstock) Association leaders can learn plenty from a series of public talks about on-the-job failures. But some ways of
By: George Bryce, lawyer | Website: www.BryceLaw.ca On March 25th, the Hon. Michael de Jong, BC’s Minister of Finance, introduced Bill #24 (2015) to bring into law a new Societies
