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I love working with volunteers and association executives. It’s a fun and dynamic relationship that both sides are always trying to navigate with care. Here are the top 5 most common volunteer comments I hear year in and year out and my thoughts on how to over come them. 1. It’s “my year” and this
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To truly be a strategic board of directors, it is imperative that your leadership understand their role is to set strategic direction in terms of policy and finance. This means decide and deliver. Yet too many organizations today are—for the most part—stuck. They want to move and they can’t. Interviewing leaders, I’ve often been told
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Priceless & Inexpensive: Volunteer Appreciation It’s not to late to reward your volunteer teams with a powerful gesture of gratitude on this National Volunteerism week. At the end of the day volunteers want to know one thing they make a positive impact on the organizations they volunteer for. Leaders ask all the time what should
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Life and leadership sparks change. I know for myself and many people and organizations I work with change can cause discomfort, anger and frustration. As I look with new eyes to the changes going on in my life this new acronym for change showed up. I share it in the knowing it applies both personally
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As a leader it is inevitable you also accept the role of change agent and as a part of that you may even be considered a rebel. Has it ever happened to you? You accept a leadership role at any level, volunteer, committee chair, director, vice president or executive committee, you build a
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It was said on most every major news station the 2013 NCAA tournament had an epic end. Meaning that is was a bit of a nail biter. It was exciting to watch and fun. People from all walks of life were engaged. I want to read a headline one day that says, “Volunteering for XYZ
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The text message read, “Did you know Pat died today?” A few days later an email, “Did you hear that Sarah’s husband died of a heart attack?” My life was changed in an instant as I learned these people who had impacted my life and our organization were gone forever. As I read these emails
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How to Choose a Life Enriching Mentor: A 6 Step Process to Create Your Circular Mentorship I attribute much of my success in life to the many mentors I have had over the years. Mentoring did not start out as a deliberate way to expand my network, educate myself on the industries it grew into
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Stuck in the Quicksand: Trends To Implement 2013: Associations are sinking in quicksand; many are stuck with seemingly nowhere to go. Today many of them are buried under the weight of sand in form of old and wordy vision statements, policies and procedures and people who simply choose not to move. Leaders are telling
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It’s July for many organizations this is the first month that new leaders are walking into the board room. It’s exciting, exhilarating for some and totally scary for others. You may have found the edge of your comfort zone. As a board member you are now called to do something that for many is out
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