https://amces.com/our-blogenhttps://amces.com/our-blog/tips-for-association-advocacy-during-the-45th-parliament-2016-03-25By: Paul Lansbergen, Senior Consultant AMCES Ltd. – Association Consulting Services paul@amces.com Congratulations to all those elected in our...Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400https://amces.com/our-blog/tips-for-association-advocacy-during-the-45th-parliament-2016-03-25https://amces.com/our-blog/lindsay-pealow-cae-to-serve-as-cae-class-of-2023-valedictorian-2023-10-23AMCES values lifelong learning and since its inception has supported continuing education for our team. We encourage all staff to complete the...Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400https://amces.com/our-blog/lindsay-pealow-cae-to-serve-as-cae-class-of-2023-valedictorian-2023-10-23https://amces.com/our-blog/sarah-mccabe-cae-awarded-csae-2023-young-leader-award-2023-04-23We are proud to recognize Sarah McCabe CAE for being awarded CSAE’s Young Leader Award. This award celebrates emerging talent and leadership in the...Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400https://amces.com/our-blog/sarah-mccabe-cae-awarded-csae-2023-young-leader-award-2023-04-23https://amces.com/our-blog/leveraging-volunteer-assets-addressing-fatal-flaws-part-2-2019-04-12Part 1 of “Leveraging Volunteer Assets & Addressing Fatal Flaws” identified seven common fatal flaws of working with volunteers in associations. This...Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0400https://amces.com/our-blog/leveraging-volunteer-assets-addressing-fatal-flaws-part-2-2019-04-12https://amces.com/our-blog/leveraging-volunteer-assets-addressing-fatal-flaws-part-1-2019-04-09Volunteers are the life blood of Associations…and one of the biggest challenges for Association Executives. Our success as Association Executives is...Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0400https://amces.com/our-blog/leveraging-volunteer-assets-addressing-fatal-flaws-part-1-2019-04-09https://amces.com/our-blog/navigating-technology-for-nonprofits-domains-2019-04-08The 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....Mon, 08 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0400https://amces.com/our-blog/navigating-technology-for-nonprofits-domains-2019-04-08https://amces.com/our-blog/navigating-technology-for-non-profits-2019-03-15Fri, March 29, 2019 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT Add to Calendar Impact Hub Ottawa 123 Slater Street, 6th Floor Ottawa, ON K1P 5H2 View Map AMCES is...Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0400https://amces.com/our-blog/navigating-technology-for-non-profits-2019-03-15https://amces.com/our-blog/collaboration-through-shared-services-part-3-2019-03-05While shared service delivery can be accomplished using a variety of structures that facilitate the coordination and implementation of services to...Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500https://amces.com/our-blog/collaboration-through-shared-services-part-3-2019-03-05https://amces.com/our-blog/collaboration-through-shared-services-part-2-2019-02-26As a form of collaborative work, the sharing of services is an approach used by all kinds of organizations to systematically pool their resources in...Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0500https://amces.com/our-blog/collaboration-through-shared-services-part-2-2019-02-26https://amces.com/our-blog/collaboration-through-shared-services-part-1-2019-02-16The notion of collaboration as a beneficial activity is widely understood and is considered a worthy goal by associations and organizations in...Sat, 16 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0500https://amces.com/our-blog/collaboration-through-shared-services-part-1-2019-02-16https://amces.com/our-blog/do-you-need-to-reevaluate-your-approach-to-social-media-2018-10-10Many Executive Directors and senior staff sometimes believe that adopting every technological solution available is the obvious and inevitable path...Wed, 10 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400https://amces.com/our-blog/do-you-need-to-reevaluate-your-approach-to-social-media-2018-10-10https://amces.com/our-blog/time-management-hacks-2016-03-25Time everything you do, for about 3 weeks. The timer will not only gave you a concise reading on tasks that you may normally “guesstimate” at the end...Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0400https://amces.com/our-blog/time-management-hacks-2016-03-25https://amces.com/our-blog/board-orientation-what-should-really-take-place-2015-12-01In a recent column I addressed the topic of not-for-profits going beyond volunteer leadership orientation and into the delivery of volunteer...Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0500https://amces.com/our-blog/board-orientation-what-should-really-take-place-2015-12-01https://amces.com/our-blog/human-resource-policy-manuals-2015-12-01Capturing explicit knowledge for an organization's most important resource - people - is a key first step in improving an organization's knowledge...Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0500https://amces.com/our-blog/human-resource-policy-manuals-2015-12-01https://amces.com/our-blog/can-associations-become-high-performing-organizations-2015-12-01It 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...Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0500https://amces.com/our-blog/can-associations-become-high-performing-organizations-2015-12-01https://amces.com/our-blog/how-healthy-is-accountability-in-your-association-2015-12-01When people think about accountability, they rarely think in terms of a broad framework. Rather, they think of bits and pieces such as audited...Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0500https://amces.com/our-blog/how-healthy-is-accountability-in-your-association-2015-12-01