Chapter Insights

Down a board position? A vacancy can disrupt the balance of your board and lead to backlogs and frustrations as you try to get everything done. There are things you can do, to make things run smoothly while you’re recruiting.

A website checklist provides your volunteers with a structure and a process. Work on your website gets completed at the same level of quality, no matter who does it.

An open board position doesn’t mean you hire the first person that raises their hand. Taking the time to interview the candidate(s) will help ensure you get the best person for the job.

What’s your plan for keeping your chapter successful? Here are some ideas to add to your planning that can make your chapter stronger and more effective than it is currently.

Stan Phelps discusses the four steps organizations should complete to determine the “weirdness” that can grow their organization.

Are your board meetings productive in reaching objectives, or are they frustrating? Having more effective board meetings doesn’t have to be a tough process.

Without board job descriptions, members can’t easily decide if they want a board role. Chapters may also have stressed board members ill-prepared for their jobs. Or both. Written board job descriptions deliver tangible benefits.

Selling a change to your board, isn’t as hard as it sounds. By incorporating techniques used by effective sales people, you can get your point(s) across.

If membership isn’t growing, meeting numbers are stagnating, and sponsors are leaving, is your admin the problem? They might just need tools that make their job easier, transparent, and effective.

Change can be challenging. Following a clear change structure can help you and those you’re asking to change better prepare for, implement, and accept that change.

On-board new board members correctly and they’re engaged and excited. Do it wrong and you could lose them before they start. Here are some tips for ensuring new board members start off on the right foot.

To ensure your chapter’s continued survival, you need to know your SPoFs. You also need a plan to avoid single points of failure and to decrease the stress brought on by the departure of an individual critical team member.

Dues alone won’t keep your chapter financially sound. How long could your chapter survive if you had no dues revenue? Learn how to increase your chapter’s financial stability.

An Association Management System (AMS) allows you to update and streamline your chapter’s processes while decreasing the amount of manual work involved, the number of people required, and the time you spend.

We’re continuing along our back to board basics series with a concentrated look at four key strategic areas to include in your summer review: board continuity, your membership structure, finances, and special programming.

Summer. A time known for fun in the sun and vacations. While we definitely encourage having some fun over the summer, we also recommend making time to prepare to get back to the board basics to set your chapter up for fall success.

3 considerations for the successful transition of your chapter’s next healthy board.

Team dynamics are key to the success of your board. We’ve outlined 3 things that could be causing disconnect and how to get your chapter back on track.

Six rules to maximize the success of your chapter’s brand advocacy efforts.

The 4 top-performing CEO behaviors that your board should emulate for success.

Part 3 of a 3-part series exploring the life cycle of a member. Part 3 provides a deeper look at active member’s transition into leadership and the corresponding engagement levels.

Our 5 tips to achieve chapter success without the pressure of perfection

Volunteer leaders can rely on these 6 tools for their quest for chapter growth in any industry or location

Read these 9 tried and true ways to express gratitude to your members.

Here is a 3-part model to shape the leadership style of incoming presidents aimed at realizing chapter success.

If your board’s term is reaching its end and a new leadership is about to take over, follow the StarChapter Checklist for Successful Board Transitions.

A look at how the End of Year Review is an important tool in the shaping of your chapter’s success.

5 ways a member-sponsor model can empower the next generation of leaders while growing your chapter.

The board experience drives the chapter – take a look at this refresher aimed at ensuring a successful chapter experience.

StarChapter was featured on GetApp! Check out the latest article about how to ensure board transitions.

Revisiting 5 key actions for successfully improving board effectiveness and fulfill chapter mission and goals.

Get the scoop on the Who, What, When, and Where of developing top chapter talent through training.

2016 is just around the corner. Start tackling these tasks to have a stress-free year-end

Why it is never too early to start training your board members’ successors?

Sometimes even the smallest changes can make a big difference in the interest level of members. Here are some ideas for bringing some excitement into meetings.

Successful member communication strategy has 3 parts. Read this post to check out what they are.

Board transitions are unavoidable, and carefully preparing for the next generation of leaders will ensure your organization will survive for years to come. Read this for the reasons and risks of an unsuccessful board transition

How do you prepare the organization you manage for the day you step out of your leadership position? The 4 Do’s and Don’ts of successful succession planning.

With a 6.5% membership growth in the last year, PMI Oklahoma City chapter is already preparing for the next big thing: celebrating the chapter’s 15th anniversary! We spoke with the board and learned their method of getting more members to volunteer

5 steps to learn all about your members and how surveys can help you

Meet Duval County Medical Society, the local Floridian medical society that learned their prospects and is now The StarChapter of The Month.

7 signs that your board is not involved enough with managing the chapter

There's a secret to turn your chapter's prospects to paying members and it's hidden beyond the numbers.