Association Leadership

These posts cover leadership topics within associations and association management. From staff leadership to volunteer leadership, best practices and general advice from my experiences is given.

Team Innovation

November 12, 2012

The past few days I have watched a series on the History channel about some early American entrepreneurs,  Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Vanderbilt.  There was a quote from Jack Welch on innovation.  His main point was that for a company to be successful they need to innovate and that does not mean that the company needs [...]

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Where Did Summer Go?

October 15, 2012

Is it really mid October already?  The summer came and went a bit to fast.  ASAE was a great time, but came right in the middle of what I call the busy season for the day job.  In addition to getting ready for our own meeting and examination I was in the process of on-boarding [...]

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Change is Tough

November 22, 2011

Change is always a scary thing for an organization. Staff changes, volunteer leadership changes – they can all put the organization on edge. I have seen this first hand at a previous client of mine, we experienced two executive director changes and a president stepping down all in a year span. So when I found [...]

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A Board In The Know

October 20, 2011

Last week was our 2nd of 2 in person board meetings of the year.  It was 5 hours long and was what I would consider a pretty heavy agenda.  Our organization is in the beginning stages of applying for ANSI Accreditation for our certification and examination program.  For those of you who have not applied [...]

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Regime Change

May 23, 2011

Regime change, sounds scary sometimes.  Recently we had our first board meeting with a several new board members, as well as a new chair.  While I have only been with this group for less than a year I worked very closely with the outgoing chair through my transition in.  The outgoing chair played a major [...]

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The Optimistic Leader

February 7, 2011

The post over on Acronym on being an optimistic leader got me thinking about my outlook in the work place and how I view optimism.  I admit I have caught myself from time to time being a bit of a pessimist.  I feel like I usually catch myself and work on turning it around.  However, [...]

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