MID-CAREERISTS AS MENTORS AND MENTEES
When you get to a stage in your career where you are too seasoned to get much value out of young professional content, but you’re not quite on the CEO track, then you’ve probably reached your mid-career. Or rather the “messy middle” that associations aren’t too sure how to address, and that professionals find difficult to navigate. There […]
Maddie’s May Culture Picks
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 FOR YOU ON BOARD CULTURE. How important is culture to your nonprofit board? (New.org) – A nice roundup of points to kick off this list. “Nonprofit boards are groups. All groups […]
Digital Transformation Requires Buy-In From Everyone
Digital Transformation is the current hot topic in the association world, but there are a zillion different definitions of it. In preparing for a panel at SURGE, I found a definition I thought was heading in the right direction. “Digital transformation is the convergence of digital technologies applied to organizational activities, processes, competencies, customer needs data, intelligence […]
Why your association needs to define member engagement
What does member engagement mean to you? Sure, it’s the hot topic that much of our work as association professionals revolves around, but the goal can be obscured by indirect efforts and lack of focus. As a culture consultant, my area of expertise is the internal and external cultures of employees, customers and members. When […]
How redefining engagement helped this association
I’m working closely with the American Nurses Association on a wide-ranging member engagement project, and I wanted to share with you some of their thoughts on the topic. Our work involved first helping them define what engagement means for them. From there, our collaborative work team did an extensive audit of all the engagement activities […]
Why you’re measuring engagement wrong
I want to share a couple of stories about my personal engagement with some organizations. I am a member of La Barra Brava, which is the supporter’s group for the MLS soccer (football) team DC United. We’re the ones you see on TV chanting, banging drums and waving flags. Our common purpose is to be the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Board members gone rogue: An interview with Sandra Giarde
I talked with Sandra Giarde, executive director of the California Landscape Contractors Association, to talk about a hot topic: Rogue board member. Sandra has presented at several association conferences about how to deal with a “turbo bully” on the board and this seems to be a topic that resonates with everyone. What in a board culture […]
Interview: Chris McEntee
Chris McEntee, CEO of the American Geophysical Union, has done a lot of work around transformational leadership. In particular, she reshaped AGU’s board of directors, taking particular care, as you’ll see below, to honing and defining culture at the board level. What kind of board culture have you created there? Collaborative, respectful, strategic, inquisitive, deliberative, constructive […]