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.
Chapters and Affiliates: Is it time to close or reinvent? Read Post »
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.
The Perils of Navigating Hotel Contracts and Event Costs Read Post »
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.
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 costs, and poor fits for all parties involved.
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.
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.
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.
When a “Shirley” type—who prefers doing everything themselves rather than delegating—is elected president, the organization suffers. Learn why the “one-person band” leadership model leads to disengaged boards, inactive committees, and ultimate organizational burnout.
Revenue from dues is the lifeblood of most associations, but modern expectations demand instant gratification. Discover why syncing your membership data with financial processing is critical to avoiding member frustration and streamlining operations.
Many board members find bylaws intimidating, leading them to file them away and ignore them—or interpret them so rigidly that they stall progress. Discover how to find the right balance, keep your framework flexible, and avoid 10 common bylaws pitfalls.
