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Effort Empowers Kansas City Women To Effectively Negotiate Salaries

Associations Now

The American Association of University Women is expanding its AAUW Work Smart program to Kansas City. Its goal: Close the gender pay gap by training 1 million women across Kansas and Missouri in salary and benefits negotiation. The gender pay gap in both states highlights the needs for such a program.

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A Year in Photos

Thanks For Playing

Louis, San Diego, Kansas City, Portland, Fort Lauderdale I tried not to take pictures of myself (two, neither of my face) or people in general (very few), my meals (although there are food photos), or my cat (less successful there).

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Best Practices Suck

Jamie Notter

When you live in Denver, it is absolutely a best practice to drive east if you want to get to Kansas City by car. Louis, you will never reach Kansas City (not without involving a boat or a plane, anyway). We get so wrapped up in devising beautiful answers that we fail to see the broader context. Context matters.

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Coping strategies: Mental health support for community association managers

Ungrated

“People come to (community managers), and their expectation is that we have all the answers, that we’re the strong ones,” says Michael Dee, CMCA, AMS, a manager with FirstService Residential in Kansas City, Mo. “It

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Connecting Brands, Clearing Inboxes, and Cultivating Employee Engagement with an Intranet Community

Higher Logic

Ascend Learning’s intranet has been so successful that, just a year after launch, basecamp was awarded the Gold PRISM award for Internal Communication by the Greater Kansas City Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). Out of 1,000 employees, 902 have edited some part of their profile and 809 have profile photos.

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Culture Slides

Jamie Notter

Thanks to the Kansas City Society of Association Executives and the Kansas Society of Association Executives for bringing Maddie and me out to both Missouri and Kansas (my first ever trip to Kansas) to speak to their members.

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Membership Hack: Super Bowl Wager

Associations Now

To up the ante for Super Bowl LIV, two member companies of the Home Furnishings Association—Crowley Furniture in Kansas City and Hoot Judkins Furniture in San Francisco—placed a friendly bet on their NFL home teams: the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers. How to hack it? Why does it work?