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Achieving your organization’s vision with a cohesive strategy map
Michelle LaBrosse Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWhen you’re knee-deep in the logistical details of managing a project team, it can be easy to lose sight of the big picture: your organization’s vision. We use established and proven strategies at Cheetah Learning to help us achieve our vision in each course we offer. For example, the vision for our new program is pretty simple: With the right training and systems, most people can efficiently and cost-effectively grow their own food year-round.
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Tweet the mission statement
Robert C. Harris Association ManagementEvery association has one — a reason for existence. It is expressed as a mission statement or a statement of purpose. For organizations filing IRS Form 990 annually, the statement is included on page one. Through time mission statements tend to accumulate clutter. What started out as the purpose of the organization gets weighed down by inserting priorities, adding values and expanding to include narrative.
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Has digital gutted your communications strategy?
Randall Craig MarketingNot a happy thought, but with so many cheap and easy digital tools have you ever thought traditional communications are effectively ... dead? That your traditional communication tools — and your traditional knowledge — are of fast diminishing value?
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7 tips for managing your most precious resource — time — in 2017
William D. Pawlucy Association ManagementThe most precious resource in the world is not gold but something more valuable — time. As we all know, the time we have is fixed and very much finite. It is becoming even more precious and guarded by your volunteers and staff.
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3 marketing lessons we can learn from Trump’s stunning victory
Ronnie Richard MarketingDonald Trump shocked the world by winning the bid to become America’s 45th president. Pause for a moment to let that sink in. Most experts and pundits predicted Hillary Clinton would cruise to victory, yet it was Trump standing on the stage smiling in front of a cheering crowd once the votes were tallied. So how did a real estate and media mogul with a goofy hairdo and zero political experience suddenly come to be the next leader of world’s most powerful nation?
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Champion Cubs illustrate the value of mentoring leadership
Bob Kowalski Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementNow that the Chicago Cubs have ended their 108-year World Series drought, we can take lessons from the team formerly known as America's lovable losers. Perseverance is not the only trait individuals and companies can draw from the Cubs' success. Veteran catcher David Ross, known among his teammates as "Grandpa Rossy," was widely credited with providing mentorship to the young club, something that holds value for organizations beyond sports.
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Doomed at the start: 4 signs your association is in trouble
Robert C. Harris Association ManagementThese four association scenarios signal trouble for the year ahead. At a leadership forum for officers and executives, I asked an executive director if she had brought her chief elected officer. I was surprised by her answer.
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Risk escalation — a new strategy
Dr. David Hillson Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementRisk-response strategies help us to focus our risk treatment efforts. With a small number of strategy options from which to choose, deciding on a preferred strategy allows us to concentrate on developing specific actions to implement that strategy and manage the risk in the desired way.
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17 tips for the incoming president
Robert C. Harris Association ManagementPossibly the best counsel to an incoming elected president comes from a past president. Pass along these tips to incoming officers.
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Tell that employee to stop whining — It’s OK
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWhen is it OK to tell your employees to stop whining? More often than you think. While "stop whining" may not be as satisfying as declaring "you're fired" or "I quit," it can feel great to clearly and succinctly tell a constantly complaining employee to get over it and go back to his cubicle. Yet we do not. Why?
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