Tips for Association Advocacy During the 45th Parliament
By: Paul Lansbergen, Senior Consultant AMCES Ltd. – Association Consulting Services paul@amces.com Congratulations to all those elected in our federal election. Now the real...
Lindsay Pealow CAE to Serve as CAE Class of 2023 Valedictorian
AMCES values lifelong learning and since its inception has supported continuing education for our team. We encourage all staff to complete the Certified Association Executive...
Sarah McCabe CAE Awarded CSAE 2023 Young Leader Award
We are proud to recognize Sarah McCabe CAE for being awarded CSAE’s Young Leader Award. This award celebrates emerging talent and leadership in the association sector and...
Leveraging Volunteer Assets & Addressing Fatal Flaws – Part 2
Part 1 of “Leveraging Volunteer Assets & Addressing Fatal Flaws” identified seven common fatal flaws of working with volunteers in associations. This list is by no means...
Leveraging Volunteer Assets & Addressing Fatal Flaws – Part 1
Volunteers are the life blood of Associations…and one of the biggest challenges for Association Executives. Our success as Association Executives is contingent upon our...
Navigating Technology For Nonprofits: Domains
The not for profit sector can and often does have a high turnover rate and as such, intellectual property assets get lost or become unaccounted for. Knowing where critical IP...
Navigating Technology for Non Profits
Date And Time Fri, March 29, 2019 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT Add to Calendar Location Impact Hub Ottawa 123 Slater Street, 6th Floor Ottawa, ON K1P 5H2 View Map AMCES is hosting...
Collaboration Through Shared Services - Part 3
While shared service delivery can be accomplished using a variety of structures that facilitate the coordination and implementation of services to stakeholders, they...
Collaboration Through Shared Services - Part 2
As a form of collaborative work, the sharing of services is an approach used by all kinds of organizations to systematically pool their resources in order to enhance access...
Collaboration Through Shared Services - Part 1
The notion of collaboration as a beneficial activity is widely understood and is considered a worthy goal by associations and organizations in general. Associations often...
Do You Need To ReEvaluate Your Approach To Social Media?
Many Executive Directors and senior staff sometimes believe that adopting every technological solution available is the obvious and inevitable path to efficiency and success....
Time Management Hacks
In an effort to start the new season off on a controlled foot, we recently had a time management hack lunchtime discussion at AMCES. We each brought our top 2 productivity...
Board Orientation - What Should Really Take Place
In a recent column I addressed the topic of not-for-profits going beyond volunteer leadership orientation and into the delivery of volunteer leadership training. I was...
Human Resource Policy Manuals
Capturing explicit knowledge for an organization's most important resource - people - is a key first step in improving an organization's knowledge management practices. Tools...
Can Associations Become High Performing Organizations?
It depends on how a high performance association is defined and whether or not an association board and staff are willing to make the investment and deliver to their members....
How Healthy is Accountability in Your Association?
When people think about accountability, they rarely think in terms of a broad framework. Rather, they think of bits and pieces such as audited financial statements, annual...