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Advice for Engaging Virtual Conference Attendees

Remember what attending a conference was really like? If you looked around the room during a session, many attendees had their heads down in their...

Help Members Cope with the Economic Impact of COVID-19

In the association community, talk of a recession had crept up a few times in the past year. Now, it’s at the top of the agenda. Many industries,...

Adulting Programs Help Young Professionals Survive & Thrive in Their Careers

“Adulting is hard.”

How Your Association Can Encourage Learner Self-Reliance

For liberal arts majors, the phrase “self-reliance” might bring back memories of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In an essay titled “Self-Reliance,” the 19th...

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...

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...

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,...

How to Help Individual & Company Members Adapt to Remote Work

Remote work is on the rise. 43% of employees now work remotely at least part of the time, according to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace....

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