our focus: creating meaningful and diverse opportunities that allow members to connect with each other. Every Time.
expanding your network
- Create interactive introductions
- Mix it up (live, videos, warm-ups, etc.)
- Make it personal
- Create casual connections
- Empower our membership to create organic opportunities to gather and share
- Utilize storytelling – promotion, engagement
- Increase ease of information-sharing – internally and externally
- Provide networking opportunities
- Facilitate connections
- Build into everything
- Smaller is better in this environment
- Re-launch the Hyper-local framework
building new skills
- Format and Structure
- Flexible programming times – pilot breakfasts, luncheons and happy hours
- Build in pre/post time for both “flipping the classroom” and reflecting on/implementing the information shared
- Breakouts should always include strategies to turn information into knowledge and action
- Solution-focused
- Encourage opportunities to form serendipitous pods/cohorts among members
solving today’s problems
- Ask what’s working continuously
- Create feedback loops from members to leaders to staff
- Adjust and evolve
- Education
- Utilize our member experts and existing collaborative partnerships
- Seek out other partnerships with corporate supplier members
learning by leading
- Share our results every time we pilot a new idea throughout our communication vehicles
- White papers, lists
- Slides and videos available intact and edited into bite-sized consumption
- GSAEtv and its next iteration
- DOPE – Develop Once, Publish Everywhere
advancing your career
- Harness the energy of our brand evangelists and our learning experts
- Encourage interactive exchanges within each program
- Incorporate physical movement where possible
- Entertainment is okay!
- Resurrect the Communications and Social Media Audit Work Group (held over from 2020)
Tactics Captured and Worth Pursuing
- MasterMinds
- Problem-solving pods
- GSAE Prom
- Hyper local face to face options
- RFP Workshop for association execs
- Workshop on employee engagement
- Webinar on employee recognition
thank you to our 2021 hosts
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