Molly Marsh

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AMR IdeaCON – Collaborative Problem-Solving Six Months Later

By Molly Marsh / August 7, 2019

It’s difficult to believe, but we’re coming up on six months since the AMR internal professional development conference; IdeaCON. The results were wonderful, with 82.6% of participants indicating the event made them feel more connected to their peers and 73.9% responding that they learned new skills or information about association management. The qualitative feedback was…

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Takeaways from the World Education Congress 2019

By Molly Marsh / July 24, 2019

Molly Marsh shares her takeaways from the MPI World Education Congress where she represented AMR as a session speaker.

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Make the Brain Work for It!

By Molly Marsh / June 3, 2019

A designer, psychologist and a behavioral economist walk into a university… Also potentially the start of a terrible joke, it happens to be the beginning of the story of Sans Forgetica, a new typeface created to help increase retention and learning from written material.  As noted in the previous blog post about Elaboration, learning is much more…

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Collaborative Problem-Solving at AMR IdeaCON

By Molly Marsh / March 11, 2019

I love that AMR strives to make high quality-training and ongoing professional development available to all members of the team. But when planning the inaugural IdeaCON internal association management training conference, we knew that just providing education wouldn’t help us achieve our goals of becoming a stronger, more collaborative team…  To spark a collaborative spirit, we knew…

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Association Management Companies – Your Dream Team?

By Molly Marsh / January 8, 2019

In his book Dream Teams, author Shane Snow sets out to illustrate why some diverse teams excel and some do not. His early chapters emphasize perspective and how the addition of new and different perspectives to a team can help the group uncover ideas or solutions they never could have before. He uses the illustration of…

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