Energizing and Activating Committees and Boards

Is your organization run by the same people, year-in-year-out? Is it difficult to find new people to take leadership positions or even volunteer to serve on committees? This session will give attendees information and tools for finding committed volunteers and keeping them involved.

Effective Approach to Legislative Success

Your members are your best lobbyists. In this session you will learn easy and sustainable methods for creating meaningful relationships within state government and the legislature. You will also find out how to effectively use your members to achieve legislative success without asking them to donate money.

Strong Associations Begin with Committed Members

Associations cannot exist without members. While recruiting and retaining members form the foundation of a successful association, that is just a beginning. In this session you will learn how associations can involve members so that they become committed for a lifetime. You will find that many of these members will become recruitment tools themselves.

Double Convention Enrollment and Triple Its Income

Is your convention enrollment down? Are there too many continuing education options luring your members away? Doubling your convention enrollment while tripling its income is an achievable goal. Find out how this can be accomplished.

Train Leaders to Assist in Reorganizing and Energizing Local Associations

Local associations used to be the backbone of your organization. Now it is difficult, if not impossible, to get members to go to meetings, no matter how good the speaker. The pulls on your members' time are extraordinary. In this session you will learn the step-by-step process of helping local associations become more active and its members more involved.

Boards versus Executive Staff—Who Does What?

In order for an association to run well, it must have appropriate governance in place, one where the policy-making body (executive board) and support staff do the work each is intended to do and where each understands its relationship to policy-making. In this session you will learn how to stop the cycle of boards doing committee work, officers doing staff work and staff doing board and officer work and how to implement the appropriate division of responsibilities.