Recently, I attended the Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE) annual conference in Niagara Falls. A session on  “Today’s Missing Link for Explosive Growth” put on by Ed Rigsbee, author of the book “The ROI of Membership,” made me think about how we frame the features and benefits of [...]

“Membership dues remain the largest single source of association revenue, but its share has been shrinking over the long term.” Dues average 41.4% of trade association revenue, according to an American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) report.1 So if membership dues - as a piece of the overall association [...]

How do your members measure value? How do you sell value to your members? A question that comes up often when recruiting members is the phrase “what’s in it for me?” Society is constantly measuring value and the association world is no different. So what is the answer? In [...]

The purpose of this article is to help boards to be more effective by focussing on the big picture—not on routine matters—by building on the benefits of using a consent agenda. A consent agenda promotes good time management, allowing Boards “to focus on issues of real importance to the [...]

Associations are in the partnership business - they bring people together. No matter the structure or level of formality of the relationship, successful associations facilitate and build strong partnerships for the profession or industry they represent, for their members and for their stakeholders. As well as those partnerships that [...]

Using a consent agenda can make your board meetings shorter and more productive. It achieves this by combining routine meeting motions into one motion. If every board member does his/her homework it is possible to have a single motion that approves: Meeting agenda Minutes of the previous meeting Reports [...]

As Canada’s most connected event and association management company we are pleased to publish guest blogs by our partners. This post is written by Todd Andres and Nicole Smith, lawyers with Pitblado Law in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Associations often contract out work for a variety of services including event management, [...]

The role of an association’s board of directors (board) has two main objectives. The primary is to be the strategic thinkers that provide direction to the association members they represent. The mission of the association drives the strategy and decision-making process, therefore the board needs to always relate their [...]

In this article we’ll share with you the contents of the board member’s binder that we have developed for our association management clients. The binder serves at four primary purposes: It is an orientation resource for new members It is evidence of the board’s work for existing board members [...]

As Canada’s most connected event and association management company we are pleased to publish guest blogs by our partners. This post is written by Kelsey Desjardine, a lawyer with Pitblado Law in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Many associations recognize, as they grow, that they’d like to secure their brand by obtaining [...]