Is Your Strategic Plan Relevant for Right Now?
When you created your strategic plan, you and your fellow board members likely took time to assess the environment, plan your next steps, develop your direction, and prioritize your resources. Your strategic plan was thoughtful and inspiring, and you started to see results.
Today, it’s all changing. The environment might look dramatically different and tried-and-true tactics may not pack their old punch, even if your planning session was just a few months ago. Take a few minutes to review the following questions and see whether your strategic plan is standing the test of time.
5 Steps to Revitalize Your Strategic Direction
When was your last strategic planning session? If you don’t remember, it’s time to refresh your association’s strategic direction. There have been dramatic shifts in the world at large that have impacted your members’ needs and have the potential to affect the stability of funding sources.
As an association leader, you can turn those uncertainties into opportunities by assessing how your membership is responding to these changes and reframing your actions. But how?
Impact Association Management Achieves AMC Institute Reaccreditation
3 Tips to Strengthen Partnerships with Confident Communication
As association professionals, communication skills impact nearly every aspect of our work—supporting members, partnering with leaders, working as a team, and more. To be truly successful in this industry and to gain the traction you need to move your association’s initiatives forward, you must be able to communicate effectively.
Here are three tips to communicate with confidence and not only ensure clarity but also build trust and genuine connection in every conversation.