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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. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. Both MarCom and membership have a significant role to play in an integrated planning process,” Jane observed. Data is an important connector.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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The 4Cs or critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication complement technology and will serve any organization well in competitive markets. Summit makes short work of analyzing plenty of tough problems. In this age of unprecedented processing power, why is critical thinking important?

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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. Effective strategy begins with an integrated plan.

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Solving Business Problems with Root Cause Analysis

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Your solution to a business problem didn’t work? You feel like you’re solving the same problem over and over again? Learn more from Sarah about root cause analysis in the sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 217: “Business Problem to Solve? Root cause analysis helps us to solve a problem by getting to the root of it!

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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Meg Ward, Co-Founder of Gravitate Solutions, and a contributor to our book, “Association 4.0 : An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” described her company’s hiring process like this. Our interview process is rigorous. This process ensures that we hire the right people.” Trust me, it’s worth it.

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A New Era for Foundation Collaboration

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In the past, many foundations viewed collaboration as a speed bump. Collaborations, after all, take time. When two or more organizations work together on any project, time must be spent up front setting ground rules, creating processes, and making compromises. Why Collaborate? Common Types of Foundation Collaboration.

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 217: Business Problem to Solve? Find out the Why

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Are you dealing with problems in your organizations and wondering why you can’t solve them, or why you can’t solve them in a lasting way? Listen in to this excerpt from bbcon 2021 Virtual, where Sarah Beauregard, Senior Process Engineer at Blackbaud, discusses root cause analysis. Problem solving collaboratively.

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