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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

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How can leaders prepare themselves and their employees to develop effective systems for culling unproductive activities and managing the constant volatility? Subsequent models will incorporate changes based on consumer feedback. Don’t limit creativity to the management team. They are also good facilitators.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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In our models, we assume that astronauts are intelligent, that they’re experts in their technical areas, and that they have at least some teamwork skills. Using Suzanne Bell’s example, it can be helpful to consider both the technical and psychosocial roles that will facilitate the work. What’s tricky is how well individuals combine.”

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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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Even small associations tend to stack layers of management like the cake at a royal wedding. As many as five tiers of responsibility (junior positions, middle managers, executive staff, committees, and the board of directors) are not unusual. Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. Clarify Roles.

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Leadership’s Biggest Perk—Giving Others a Boost

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Be Intentional What can we do to facilitate more deliberate mentoring relationships? Create Opportunity Peggy Winton, President and CEO at the Association for Intelligent Information Management, is a leader who puts elevating others at the top of her agenda. I wasn’t able to find statistics related to association leadership.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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ENA Culture Statements Staff The Emergency Nurses Association will seek at all times to foster and maintain a culture of excellence, commitment, empowerment, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability. She is a futurist and avid consumer of the latest research, data, and provocative insights from industry thought leaders.

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Build a Digital Ecology–Promote IT Collaboration Across Your Organization

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To become a digital business everyone in the organization must use their IT tools to collaborate. Executives who defer this responsibility convey the idea that digital thinking and collaboration are not a priority. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers. Every employee must have a stake in that vision.

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Don’t Get Too Comfortable at the Top–AI Puts a Twist on Leadership

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Collaborative relationships are the future currency. Collaborative relationships are the future’s currency. Identify staffers who will be ambassadors and fill these collaborative roles: Identify employees across the organization to be ambassadors. They are role models who inspire teams to see from a different perspective.