Strauss Articles
Knowledge, Insight, and Experience
Every Thursday, our experts provide insights into industry trends and issues that readers can leverage to improve their associations and signature events.
The Crucial Orientation and Training for Association Board Members
As we start getting back to in-person board meetings, volunteer board members are craving a better understanding of their role as [...]
Lessons of Leadership from Ted Lasso for Associations
We often discuss leadership within associations and need not look far for leaders that set a good example. There are many [...]
The Key to Organization for Association Leaders
For association board members it can be difficult to keep your association to-do lists organized, especially when your professional life gets [...]
Accounting for Associations: Not-for-Profit Financial Management
Not-for-profit accounting is a unique process by which not-for-profit organizations plan, record, and report their finances to a committee or Board [...]
Plant Seeds and Cultivate Leadership Within Your Association
Leadership is a quality that can occur in any person. However, not every member of your association has realized the potential [...]
Creating Successful Virtual Environments for Association Leaders
As the world continues to alter its response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the way in which associations operate has changed [...]
Courage: Try, Trust, and Tell
Despite the constant struggle with COVID-19, restrictions, and exhaustion that we have been facing over the past two years, the association [...]
Getting Together Again – Adjusting Expectations (Again)
Over the second year of the pandemic, we have experienced a lot of starts and stops. In October 2021 we felt [...]
Collaboration and Delegation: The Science of Working Together
There is no ‘I’ in ‘team’. Whether you’re on an association board or committee, you work together as a team. A [...]
The Membership Application Form – A Member’s First Impression of Your Association
Is your association membership application form sending the right impression to potential members? Your membership application process is the way new [...]
A Diverse Board Is Good For a Diverse Association
When discussing association board composition, it is important to consider the question: “What is the key function of a board of [...]
Return To The Starting Line: Lessons From the Race Management Industry
The association events sector is experiencing an unprecedented time of flux and uncertainty. One community that is leading the way back [...]
Word of Mouth: The Association’s Need for Communicative Media
No longer do we live in the days where messenger pigeons carried letters to home. It’s plain to see that we [...]
Creating To Do Lists that Keep Your Association Work on Track
To-do lists are a helpful tool for managing your association workload. Sometimes, however, instead of reducing your stress, they add to [...]
Making the Most of an In-Person Association Board Meeting
When was the last time you got together with colleagues for an in-person association meeting or event? For me, it was [...]
Teach Your Association Board How to FISH! The Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Argument
I don’t fish as I have never had the patience to sit that long but I recently took part in an [...]
Growing Your Association’s Membership Post-Pandemic
In the association management profession in Canada, we are now learning to adapt to the new normal and bring back business [...]
Taking Your Virtual Events from Good to Great
Our virtual events were good, but we wanted more for our attendees, our exhibitors, our sponsors, and our association partners. We [...]
Our First Post-COVID Trade Show
Flashback to February 2020, for one of our clients’ TRAVELING trade show tour. Our team is moving from Vancouver, to Calgary, [...]
The Gift of Volunteering
In addition to a hard-working staff, associations are most often run by a board and committees made up of volunteers. These [...]