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The Growing Member Need for Self-Care & Wellbeing Education

“It’s easier to care for the community, once you’ve taken care of yourself,” says The Community Roundtable, a membership organization for the online...

The Exciting Impact of Digital Transformation on Professional Development

“You need to deliver knowledge that you aren’t yet aware of, for jobs that don’t yet exist, to a group of people who don’t know that they will need...

9 Ways to Gain the Trust of Members and Customers

For 18 years running, nursing has been the most trusted profession in the U.S. In a Gallup poll, 85% of Americans rate the honesty and ethics of...

11 Issues to Keep on Your Association’s Radar for 2020 and Beyond

Over the past year, we’ve filled notebooks with ideas about issues that could affect association learning programs in 2020 and beyond. The list would...

What Association Learning Professionals Read in 2019 & Plan to Do in 2020

If you want a clue as to where professional development programs are headed in 2020, take a look at what association learning professionals read in...

16 Strategies to Improve Focus, Minimize Busywork & Find Time for Deep Work

How do you start your day at work? Do you ease in by checking email and other platforms? Do you begin with a little busywork and then end up doing...

In 2020, Stop Busywork and Concentrate on Deep Work

Make a vow to stop being so productive in 2020. That’s not as strange as it sounds, allow me to clarify. Stop spending so much time on busywork....

How Your Association Can Support Women on the Path to Leadership

Last month, presidential candidate Senator Amy Klobuchar asked whether a woman with the same experience as fellow candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg...

Is It Time to Consider a More Sustainable Professional Development Strategy?

Every year around this time, a slew of articles are published about trends for the year ahead. So far, in every 2020 event trends article we’ve read,...

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