Succession planning - the preparation to replace one leader with another - is one of the most difficult challenges associations face in this era of organizational management. Few events in the life of an association are as critical, visible, or stressful as when the leader leaves. The eyes of every member, employee, customer, supplier, and [...]

Ready to leave your job behind and become your own boss? It takes a certain kind of person to make it through the first few years.
To help you along, we’ve culled the best tips from our own members - people with years’ of experience in running their own businesses.
Don’t work for less than you can [...]

Kids are prompted to follow their dreams. Yet sometimes, when they do they are ridiculed. One case in point is the Rebecca Black phenomenon. Her mother bought her a music video. She made it and posted it on You Tube. The rest, as they say, is history. Being hailed as the worst video in [...]

Collaboration tools help people work together more effectively.
Imagine you live in Alaska, a place full of breathtaking wildlife but short on such conveniences as high-speed access. Your job is to run the local office of a company that publishes phone directories and is headquartered thousands of miles away. You supervise a crew of salespeople who [...]

A weblog (or simply blog) is a website that ‘publishes’ or features articles (which are called ‘blog posts’, ‘posts’, or ‘entries’), written by an individual or a group that make use of any or a combination of the following:
 ■Straight texts
 ■Photographs or images (photoblog)
 ■Video (videoblog)
 ■Audio files (audioblog)
 ■Hyperlinks
 
Usually presented and arranged in reverse chronological order, blogs are [...]

10 Tips for Staying Employed and Improving Work Performance
You don’t need a career counselor to learn how to keep your job safe! These 10 tips for staying employed and improving your work performance will keep your boss happy.
Becoming a better employee isn’t just about keeping your job safe and staying employed — it’s about long-term [...]

Rule:  Thoughts change brain chemistry.
That sounds so simple but that’s the way it is, with our thoughts changing neurotransmitters on a daily basis. If a man walks into a room with a gun, we think “threat”, and the brain releases norepinephrine. We become tense, alert, develop sweaty palms, and our heart beats faster. If he [...]

Auguste Rodin’s classic statue “The Thinker” is one of my favorites. It’s hard to look at it (or one of its many replicas) without being moved by it. The innocent display of someone deeply in thought causes most of us to ponder a bit ourselves. Why is this image so captivating? What’s he thinking about?
Perhaps [...]

A lot of effort is put into getting new clients. We all know our client base will change. Previous clients can move to a new area, sell their business, close down, or change their priorities. So finding new business is always important - but so is keeping your previous clients. Here are nine ways to [...]

The first step toward closing more prospects on a YES decision is not in the close when you ask the closing question. Rather, the first step toward closing begins with your first point of contact with your prospect, when you begin your conversation with your prospect. It is in the rapport building part of the [...]