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Congratulations to the ACCE 2023 Chamber of the Year Finalists

GrowthZone

The Chamber of the Year award recognizes the leadership role chambers of commerce have in their communities. The award recognizes excellence in operations, member services, and community leadership. Category Four Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce – Boston, Mass. Category Three Lancaster Chamber – Lancaster, Pa.

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How Successful Change Works

Associations Now

A 2023 report from the Boston Consulting Group notes that aversion to change increases if people feel like they don’t have agency in the changes being made. The BCG report characterizes change management as a negotiation between two parties—the leadership that’s implementing the change, and the people who are being asked to participate in it.

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Blue Sky eLearn: 2017 Year in Review

Blue Sky eLearn

We hired Ryan Graham as our new Senior Sales Director – providing us with 12+ years of experience in the SaaS learning technology space with companies such as Boston Conferencing, Peach New Media, and Abila.

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The Seven Leadership Secrets of Great Team Captains

SCD Group

The Seven Leadership Secrets: They took care of tough, unglamorous tasks. “The leaders of history’s most dominant sports teams took risks, engaged in dissent, embraced grunt work and hated giving speeches,” an excerpt from ‘The Captain Class.’ Walker offered a video summary of his book. They broke the rules – for a purpose.

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Winning Lessons from the World of Sports

Virtual

In Boston sports, these are “the good old days.” In honor of Boston sports, here’s what our four teams can teach associations: From the Red Sox: “Know your role.” When a ball is hit up the middle in baseball, you never see the shortstop and second basemen collide as they both go for it.

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Winning Lessons from the World of Sports

Virtual

In Boston sports, these are “the good old days.” In honor of Boston sports, here’s what our four teams can teach associations: From the Red Sox: “Know your role.” So they’re pretty low on the Boston sports pecking order at the moment.

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Nonprofit: Just a Tax Status

Virtual

If there’s one thing I’d like to change about working with nonprofits of all kinds, it’s the belief that nonprofits are somehow the “minor leagues” of organizations—that it’s ok for them to have deficits in leadership, operations or strategy that you wouldn’t see in a for profit corporation. That’s a load of hooey.

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