Why the best leaders foster collaboration: Jon Bobosh
At IQ Solutions, a web strategy firm focused on healthcare, they pay close attention to leadership and staff development, and their technology coordinator, John Bobosh, was willing to share some of his thoughts on this with us. How are you customizing leadership development internally? My department at IQ Solutions has a really flat hierarchy. A […]
Aligning individual employees with your culture
I have written a lot about the need to design our organizations around the needs of the employees. I see this as part of a digital mindset that we need to be adopting if we want our associations to thrive in the 21st century. The world has changed (permanently) and individuals expect us to run […]
Are you comfortable or are you growing?
I’d like to start by sharing my own personal story, one that has consumed much of my time outside of work over the last two years. It all started when my wife and I decided to buy a house. As most of you with house hunting experience know, it is a long and drawn out […]
Maddie’s June picks on leadership development and culture
Once a month, I’ll round up some links to posts from around the internet on our topic of the month. Here’s this month’s reading list on leadership development and culture. There is a lot on this subject all over the internet, but these picks have some newly relevant insights around leading from the middle, self-directed […]
Why an experienced professional should think like a beginner
One of the fundamental truths in the business world is that experience is a good thing. When we want to hire someone for a job, we demand it. When we look back at our own careers, we realize that once we have it, we are better at many things than we were before we had […]
6 ways to get more out of professional development
Conferences or sessions, courses or meetings – ongoing professional development and learning is a cornerstone to a successful career. Much like any association relationship, what we get out of these opportunities can be enhanced by what we put into it. When registering or choosing a session, it is typical to find a description of the […]
Being human still counts, especially for associations
At our AIIM16 Conference, we decided it was time to do something more than just have a lot of great sessions and great keynotes and fun food and social activities. We decided in our small way to use the occasion to also give something back. After all, we are a non-profit, for-purpose organization. This wasn’t […]
Does your association’s culture support job rotations?
I’ve been in the association world for a long time, and I hear a lot of complaints about silos. The different departments, while necessary, also cause a lot of problems because they don’t collaborate well. The “culprit” will vary by organization — member services, education, meetings — but at some point one or more ends […]
So you want to host an online career center
It has been proven time and again that association members are more engaged in their careers and dedicated to their chosen industry. Hosting a niche online career center not only gives your members a value-added membership benefit, but it also allows your association to tap into a wealth of non-dues revenue ripe for the taking. […]
4 ways we trick our own brains
Picture 2050. Has the war over scarce resources begun yet? Is this all happening during an Ice Age brought on by global warming? In their book “Abundance,” Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler offer a counter-narrative to the doom and gloom you’re so used to hearing. They explain that there are cutting-edge technologies in the works that […]