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This course has all the tools you need to plan a smooth virtual conference. You’ll learn the tech you need, how to avoid common pitfalls, how to attract sponsors and keys to ensuring diversity in speakers and attendees.
Creating Powerful Content
This course will provide you with practical tips and strategies to increase member engagement through content. With more options to access content, associations need to reassert their purpose and learn how to reconnect and engage in new ways.
This course has all the tools you need to plan a smooth virtual conference. You’ll learn the tech you need, how to avoid common pitfalls, how to attract sponsors and keys to ensuring diversity in speakers and attendees.
Maximizing Culture and Member Value
Business coach John Spence adapts his Formula for Business Excellence for associations to teach why it’s so important for organizations to carefully consider their culture — so they can make big improvements in serving their members.
Introduction to Business Analytics
Learn to accelerate change in the world by using data to influence your organization’s strategy and inform decisions that produce value and impact for your membership and beyond.
Introduction to Strategic Foresight
When your members aren’t satisfied, there is a short time when you can help them before others start generating solutions — that’s your opportunity window. This course will teach you how to be ready for it.
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Our Piloting AI course will give you a clear understanding of marketing AI, tips on how to identify quick-win pilot projects and steps to solve marketing challenges efficiently.
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It might be time to kickstart strategic leadership and dynamic thinking to avoid repeating the past and falling into old habits. This course will give you the tools you need to keep your board on track and think strategically while making decisions.
Making the Most of Your Minutes
There may never be enough hours in the day, but you can make the most of the ones you have. This quick course will give you tips and tricks for staying focused and productive at work. You’ll also find links to online tools you can use to help you stay on track.
Understanding the membership economy
What can we learn from companies like Amazon and Netflix that are turning to membership to help bolster the fandom of and loyalty to their brands? Plenty. This course will teach you how to thrive in the membership economy.
Engagement can be fruitful in building a community of highly satisfied members who will actively promote and recommend your association. In this course, Dave Will, the co-founder and CEO of PropFuel, shares his wisdom on how to use the voice of the member to drive intelligent engagement.
The Open Garden Organization
This course offers a step-by-step guide to help association leaders clarify and deepen their organization’s purpose, embrace a future of uncertainty by taking on small risks to experiment and learn, and shift their business model to embrace an inclusive and expansive audience beyond the scope of traditional membership.
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