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The New Working Normal
Leadership, Shelter at home, Work from home

The New Working Normal

Many people have been working from home for two years now. During that time we’ve all developed habits. Hopefully, mostly good ones. Read this blog about work from home habit suggestions.

Sheltering at Home Successes – A Day in the Life
Conference Calls, Leadership, Meetings, Shelter at home, Social Networking, Video Calls, Virtual Meetings, Volunteerism, Work from home

Sheltering at Home Successes – A Day in the Life

Many of us have been sheltering (working) at home for at least two weeks now. It’s important that we all do our part to “flatten the curve” we’ve all heard about related to COVID-19. It is a challenge for most [...]

Virtual Meeting Etiquette (Best Practices for Conference and Video Calls)
Conference Calls, Leadership, Meetings, Video Calls, Virtual Meetings, Volunteerism

Virtual Meeting Etiquette (Best Practices for Conference and Video Calls)

Associations, companies and other organizations have been using conference and video calling to meet and conduct business for many years. Most of us are very experienced with the process and have developed methods to be productive and polite when holding [...]

Seven Keys to Running a Successful Meeting
Leadership, Meetings

Seven Keys to Running a Successful Meeting

Meetings are necessary to achieve consensus – especially in associations. We’ve all been in those meetings that were a complete waste of time. Make sure meetings you run are not a waste of time but are productive and help your [...]

Creating an Effective Nominating Process for your Association
Leadership, Meetings, Volunteerism

Creating an Effective Nominating Process for your Association

It’s the time of year again when many associations are implementing their nomination and election process. Because associations are groups of people or companies in the same profession or industry there are many opportunities for conflict and other challenges as [...]

No Silver Bullet for Association Success – It’s about the Members
Leadership

No Silver Bullet for Association Success – It’s about the Members

As a leading Association Management Company (AMC) we are often asked by prospective association client partners and volunteer leaders of associations, “What is the key to making an association successful?”. They, understandably, want a ‘silver bullet’ or ‘easy button’ [...]

Top Ten Reasons to Select CM Services as your AMC
Leadership, Volunteerism

Top Ten Reasons to Select CM Services as your AMC

Association Management Companies (AMCs) have been providing value to associations for more than one hundred years. What kind of value do they provide and how do volunteer leaders determine the best model for their association – and if that model [...]

Keeping Association Leaders and Staff Accountable
Leadership, Volunteerism

Keeping Association Leaders and Staff Accountable

We can likely all agree that in business cash may be King but accountability is next in line for the throne. In our businesses if we don’t establish Strategies, Goals and specific, measurable Objectives we hold ourselves and each other [...]

Do Smartphones Hurt Your Leadership Ability?

I've often wondered if I could be a better leader if I was less connected to email, google, news feeds and apps through my smartphone. I try not to be rude about my smartphone use. I try hard to not [...]