LinkedIn can be a powerful tool for your member engagement strategy. It gives you the opportunity to bring immediate value and relevance to your members on a consistent basis. And, when done so strategically, you can stay top of mind with your members while only using a minimal amount of your time. There are multiple […]

“I not only use all the brains I have, but all can borrow” –Woodrow Wilson How in the world can we get all our tasks done in organizational management that we think we can by the end of each day? We are dreamers, thinkers, planners, organizers, councilors, motivators and risk takers. Yes, there are those […]

Membership and membership development may well be the most important aspect of your role in your Chamber. After all, if you don’t have a significant membership base, who is it that you are serving? Oh, by the way, which comes first: the services that your organization provides to your members or the goal of growing […]

Despite delivering many a presentation through the years, I am constantly struck by how many people come up to chat afterward and tell me, in so many words, how smart I am. No braggadocio intended. It’s a function of viewing the person in the front of the room as the font of all wisdom. As […]

Three generations have been forever changed because of my dad’s childhood at the orphanage and because of this we’re a family obsessed with peanut butter. I picture my dad, about the age of 10, looking skyward and making a promise that he will one day eat as much peanut butter as he desires.  This likely […]