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Navigating Board Member Recruitment: A Complete Guide

MemberClicks

So, how do you recruit the right board members? We’ll walk you through the best practices in board member recruitment. Or they might focus on recruiting people who have connections that will help them with fundraising or sponsorships. Boards need innovators and people comfortable leading change.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.10.17

Reid All About it

Understand the board’s purpose, know the difference between staff and board roles and responsibilities, learn what to put in your board handbook, know how to talk about the board’s legal and fiduciary responsibilities, understand how to use different distribution channels (podcasts, videos, social media, etc.) 1 CAE credit.

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

.orgSource

These are a few of the documents that can be included in online welcome handbooks: Bylaws. When you succeed at recruiting talented leaders, share the good news broadly. The chances that people are reading and absorbing this material are slim. You can, and should, also provide written guidance. Financial statements. Celebrate Success.

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How to Build a Member Ambassador Program

MemberClicks

Because they have firsthand experience with your brand, they can help you identify areas of improvement and provide innovative ideas to meet the needs of your community in a better way. Develop Recruitment Strategy Create a member recruitment strategy. First, you must identify ideal ambassadors.

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Long Live Your Education Sessions: How To Repurpose, Reuse and Recoup Meeting Costs

Tom Morrison

Our association had a five module course that included a thick 3-ring bound Instructor’s Guide, five student handbooks and written tests. The key to the whole innovation was inventorying our content and then starting to ask… “What if we….?” The next bit of innovation was purchasing a $300 HD camera and a tri-pod. Yes overheads.

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Six Stages of Board Evolution

Leading Associations

In this phase the board has recruited volunteers beyond the initial core, it may have hired staff, and has generally become more organized. Stage 6 Visionary boards are not only focused on governance and strategy, but are creative, innovative, and re-examine all aspects of the organization. Stage 6 Visionary. Learn More!

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.13.17

Reid All About it

Not only will this report help you benchmark your association’s membership marketing efforts against nearly 1,000 other associations, but you’ll pick up ideas for improving recruitment and retention tactics. The council manages leadership recruitment, candidate evaluation, and nominations. – Spark Your Innovation Engine.