Chapters and Affiliates: Is it time to close or reinvent?
When chapters face aging leadership, shrinking membership, and engagement challenges, board members often consider dissolution. However, closing isn’t the only option—explore how redefinition and reinvention can save your organization or ensure a proper legal exit.
The Perils of Navigating Hotel Contracts and Event Costs
Managing hotel contracts requires balancing attendance projections with financial risk. Discover key strategies for association leaders to avoid costly attrition fees, streamline final counts, and protect your organization’s budget.
Personas as a Membership Development Tool
Growing association membership requires answering a fundamental question: what’s in it for me? Learn how leveraging member personas and AI tools can help your organization map pain points, segment messaging, and drive recruitment across different career stages and demographics.
Reactive or Proactive?
Organizations approach legislative advocacy in two distinct ways: reactive and proactive. While being proactive requires a higher investment, building model legislation, engaging members, and hosting legislative events yields far greater long-term impact than simply playing defense.
The RFP Trap: Everybody Loses!
While periodic RFPs are often seen as responsible board due diligence, issuing them for association management services can lead to unintended, lose-lose outcomes. Because AMCs operate on complex relationships rather than commodities, understated scopes of work frequently cause friction, unexpected…
A New Take on Committees
Discover effective strategies for structuring association committees to boost member engagement and retention. Learn key practices for committee success and top mistakes to avoid.
The AMC Mindset
Working with an Association Management Company (AMC) is a strategic partnership built on shared goals and professional scope. Discover best practices for client success, common relationship pitfalls to avoid, and how to maximize your AMC partnership effectively.
The Telephone: What has changed?
While everyone has a smartphone, many new board leaders overlook how they plan to use it. Discover how shifting phone habits, texting, and modern communication rules impact board management and executive relationships.
The Feel of Success
Success is predictable, and so is failure. Discover how proactive planning during the summer months—or the start of a president’s term—sets a calm, controlled, and successful course for your association.