Experts, consultants and pundits like to share their opinions of trends and issues affecting businesses or associations. When it comes right down to it, that’s all they are, opinions. For this blog posting, I cannot help but throw my opinions out there about some trends I see affecting businesses and associations. More importantly, I would [...]
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How do Leaders Handle Adversity?
Posted in Association Management Companies, CM Services, Leadership, Uncategorized, Volunteerism on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We talk a lot about leadership and good or even great leaders in this blog. I have been thinking a lot about how leaders handle adversity recently. A few recent occurrences have led me to these thoughts. First, last night was the Super Bowl. There are always winners and losers in sporting events. On a [...]
What Motivates Leaders?
Posted in Association Management Companies, CM Services, Leadership, Uncategorized on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Leaders have to develop new and innovative ways to motivate their followers every day. But what motivates leaders? I started thinking about this question recently when my 8th grade son wasn’t motivated to get out of bed early one school morning to participate in one of his final basketball practices. Of course it wasn’t too [...]
Tebow Time
Posted in Association Management Companies, CM Services, Leadership, Uncategorized, Volunteerism on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
You would have to be living under a rock over the last few months if you hadn’t heard something about a professional football player named Tim Tebow. Tebow is the quarterback of the Denver Broncos. The reason he’s been much talked about over the last few months is he is not the traditional NFL quarterback. [...]
Happy New Year
Posted in Association Management Companies, CM Services, Leadership, Uncategorized, Volunteerism on January 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Annually on December 31 people all over the world celebrate the arrival of the new year. Many people use this time as an opportunity to reflect on the happenings of the past year – think about things they did well, things they could have done better. At many companies this time of year is used [...]
You’ve Got to Practice Leadership
Posted in Association Management Companies, CM Services, Leadership, Uncategorized, Volunteerism on December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Leadership is the topic most addressed in this blog. Leadership is certainly an important topic. However, it’s also something I am fascinated with personally. I am interested in learning what great leaders do to become great leaders. I am interested in what makes leaders fail. All this interest is because I am on a journey [...]
A Few Good Leaders
Posted in Association Management Companies, CM Services, Leadership, Uncategorized, Volunteerism on December 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Leadership is an elusive term. There is no specific training program one can participate in to learn to be a leader. No single leader has all the characteristics that could be emulated to become a leader. There is no finite list of values that defines a leader. So, perhaps leadership is more personal, a positive [...]
Do the followers make the leader?
Posted in Association Management Companies, CM Services, Leadership, Uncategorized, Volunteerism on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Associations, Volunteerism and More…that’s the title of this blog. But truth is, most of the time it’s about leadership. Through this blog, I have tried to initiate discussions of the characteristics of great leaders and show examples of both good and bad leaders. I like exploring leadership with you. I like it even better when [...]
Thank You
Posted in Association Management Companies, CM Services, Leadership, Uncategorized, Volunteerism on November 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last Thursday I participated, like most of you did, in the great American tradition – stuffing my body with more delicious foods than I should have, talking with my family about what’s going on in our lives and the world, and napping in the recliner while “watching” football games. Of course that’s not really the [...]
There is no “I” in Team
Posted in Association Management Companies, CM Services, Leadership, Uncategorized, Volunteerism on November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Remember the old saying “There is no ‘I’ in Team”? I love this saying – in other words, for teams or organizations to succeed it takes more than one successful person. I recently read a Harvard Business Review blog posting that reminded me of this concept. Click here to read the posting. What greater example [...]
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About Rick
Rick Church is Head Coach of CM Services, Inc. The Association Partnership Company. CM Services pioneered the concept of developing long-term partnerships with national and international trade associations and professional medical associations. Mr. Church has published articles and given presentations about association leaders (both volunteer and paid). Mr. Church served as president of the Association Management Company Institute (AMCi). While on AMCi's Board of Directors, Mr. Church was very involved in the development of the AMCi/ANSI standard for Association Management Companies and the AMCi certification program based on that standard.-
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