PERSONALIZATION DRIVES LEARNING EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS
The personalization of learning for individual professionals will be one of our best weapons in the war against the growing knowledge gaps that plague today’s workforce. As the pace of change in the workforce accelerates, workforce readiness requires ongoing lifelong learning. Today’s employers are battling a skills gap as the pace of learning has lagged the pace of […]
WHY ASSOCIATIONS NEED TO ACTIVELY MANAGE GROWTH
A typical association will run conferences, develop publications and educational courses, provide online resources such as communities, and often be involved in government relations and standards work. These organizations face an extreme version of the challenge their for-profit counterparts face: in a commercial business, such diverse activity would often require many times the people associations have […]
PERSONALIZATION: CREEPY OR CONVENIENT?
Have you ever Googled “How to download your Facebook data” or “How to download your Google data”? Well, I have for some of my Google data. They’ll tell you where you were on what day, doing what. You’ll find every single photo. I was appalled. But then I thought about how I can go on Chrome, […]
JOB CANDIDATES ARE STILL STRUGGLING TO COMMUNICATE
We often stress the importance of soft skills in the job market, and this is particularly true when it comes to a lack of communication skills affecting the employability of job candidates. As the Director of CompTIA AITP, an association for IT professionals, we talk a lot about not only the skills gap but a […]
THE ROLE OF ASSOCIATIONS IN THE EDUCATIONAL LANDSCAPE
In the educational landscape, associations have an important role to play in helping learners become job-ready.By learners, I don’t just mean those at the start of their professional careers, but also those at a later stage looking to make a change in career paths. We can find them in our staff, our members, and just […]
SURGE GROWTH SPEAKERS WANTED
What began as a notion in November 2017 has now confidently become a certainty: that the best, brightest, and boldest ideas come from minds meeting. Along with thousands of association professionals, AssociationSuccess.org saw this thesis in action, and over the past 2 years our free virtual conference has evolved. It’s gone from a vanguard experiment to […]
HOW TO USE METRICS AND DATA IN MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATIONS
There are numerous benefits of digital technology to harness in associations, but today, I want to tell you about metrics and data in membership organizations and how to effectively use them. I think there are three components to this: 1. Clarify who your members are. You need to know what their needs are and how your […]
LEARNING DOESN’T STOP AT MID-CAREER
As a professional in her mid-career, I certainly don’t feel like one sometimes. I’m still discovering who I am and what my place is in this world. In some ways, I could say I’m like a young professional at heart, eager to learn and explore. I’ve always been curious, and that curiosity has served me well […]
HOW TO EMPOWER A COMMUNITY OF PROBLEM SOLVERS
Despite our best efforts, it can be easy for associations to fall into a siloed way of working. We can get so wrapped up in only thinking about problems and challenges we face specific to the work we are tasked with doing that often times we do not see the downstream impacts until much later. This causes […]
NICKEL AND DIMING YOUR WAY TO A RAISE
Association work can be rewarding in a number of ways—professionally, socially, intellectually, and even monetarily. That last one is a bit rarer, especially if you’re in a small to mid-sized association and if you’re not in the latter stages of your career. But it can happen, and you can do something to speed it along. It’s […]