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

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The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. You can do it.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. What is changing in our industry? Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. Make successful collaboration part of performance standards. What has changed over time?

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrate Strategy There are plenty of incentives for collaboration. What is changing in our industry? Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. What has changed over time?

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To Get Close to Members, Follow MarTech Trends

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You can build more collaborative teams. There is plenty of advice out there, and most leaders have the management skills to retool organizational structures for better communication and greater agility. Scan the Landscape Internal collaboration is important, but it is only the beginning. Study across industries.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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When the Public Health Department was looking at how to reopen safely, they had a sounding board, and we were able to collaborate to develop successful solutions. On the other hand, in Madison, where we didn’t have a Kitchen Cabinet, collaboration on reopening was much more challenging. Brent describes the organization this way. “We

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Stay the Course Through Changing Weather—Strategic Advice From Association CEOs 

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The association industry has a reputation for clinging to traditions as stubbornly as Linus hugs his trademark blanket. Be the Disruption Gary Shapiro, President and CEO, The Consumer Technology Association Critical Questions Is your association keeping pace with the industry it represents? Evolve as your industry changes.

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Leadership’s Biggest Perk—Giving Others a Boost

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To change that, we came up with a structure that allows for on-demand project work in blended, cross-functional teams. Winton also notes that this skill-based, collaborative model is the way millennials prefer to work. I wanted to ask how women in this industry could better help each other. The success is shared.

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