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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. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? 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. Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, explains the new roles like this, “An integrated strategic plan gives everyone in the organization a voice, especially the professionals from marketing and membership. Preparing for the unexpected.

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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. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. Make successful collaboration part of performance standards.

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What Does a Project Manager Do?

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When timelines are being met, challenges that arise are being navigated with ease and wisdom, and communication flows consistently and clearly between a nonprofit and a marketing agency, thank a project manager. What does a project manager do? The broad answer is project managers manage projects.

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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. Data management platforms are constantly improving their user-friendliness, flexibility, and reporting capacity.

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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. Help your association elevate its reputation.

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How can small nonprofits be successful in strategic human resources management?

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posted by Kelsey Duman Fall 2021 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. Strategic human resources management (SHRM) is a fundamental factor in making the best use of these resources. It is widely acknowledged that HR management is an integral component of any successful business. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.