What We’re Looking Forward to at General Assembly 2019
This week, the Personify team is headed to the 2019 General Assembly of YMCAs Conference in Anaheim, California. General Assembly is the Y’s premier leadership development conference and brings together over 500 YMCAs across the country. We’re exc...
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Planet Leadership: the Podcast for Association and Nonprofit Professionals
One of the great things about my role at Personify is that I get to regularly connect with entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive directors and leaders of associations and nonprofits across the country to learn about their leadership journey. These are pe...
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Meet our Latest Game Changer: the Canadian Cancer Society
The goal of our community is to make sure that “no post goes unanswered.” Earlier this year, my colleagues and I had a chance to sit down with Lacey Horta, a Senior Support Specialist at the Canadian Cancer Society, and this statement about how th...
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4 Tips to Make the Most of Board Meetings
American humorist Dave Barry once observed, “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be [board] meetings.” Meetings aren’t a four-letter word,...
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Leveraging Floor Plans for Consultative Sales
We live in an era of immediate gratification, where we can tap a few keys and the world’s information is at our fingertips. An era full of busy times, busy lives and a growing concern of impatient business professionals who all want immediate grat...
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Getting to Yes: You Need Budget – Here’s How to Get it
Association staff are on the front lines of daily operations, working hard to deliver the best possible experience to members. They not only have visibility into what’s going on but have a better understanding of why. Why aren’t the membership num...
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Choosing an Association Management System: Common Challenges and Questions
Earlier this month, I wrote about how to master the art of identifying your organization’s wish list of requirements for selecting a new association management system (AMS) or constituent management and engagement system (CME. However, it is only ...
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Speech: The Age Old Secret of Getting to Your Why
“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to...
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Reflections from an EPiC Specialist at Personify
According to Merriam Webster, the word epic means to extend beyond the usual or ordinary, especially in size or scope. When I saw the title EpiC Specialist at Personify, I was intrigued. Personify’s EPiC Program What goes in to becoming an EPiC Sp...
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