How to Engage People When You Don’t Know What to Do
How to Engage Members When You are Super Duper Busy
How to Engage Members Even When You are Not Feeling It
Join re:Members and Amanda Lea Kaiser for The Running on Empty Member Engagement Lab Series, for ALL association professionals no matter your role or resources. In each Lab, you’ll learn big ideas and have time to adapt them to your specific context while learning from your colleagues.
Register for this 3-part series and discover techniques that will make you an engagement superstar!
Leadership is saying, “We need to engage members more.” Yep! You agree, but….how? You know engagement matters, and at the same time, next steps feel really unclear. It’s easy to overthink it or do nothing at all.
Let’s start engaging members even when there’s no strategy or a perfect plan. You just need a few simple moves to get going.
Join us and your association staff colleagues to learn the 3 powerful engagement hacks that you can use right away to spark participation and connection.
Your to-do list is already overflowing with emails, member requests, and all the events, benefits, and services that need to get done. And now you are supposed to “increase engagement?” With what time?
Member engagement doesn’t always have to be time-consuming. It’s something you can add to what you are already doing.
In this fast-paced, collaborative session, we will share how to sprinkle a little magic into your everyday work. You will see how to turn regular administrative tasks into meaningful moments of connection.
Adapt these big ideas, brainstorm with your colleagues, and leave with practical ideas that don’t add one more thing to your plate.
Brain-fog, right?! Some days, you’ve got oodles of social energy. And other days, you are exhausted, overwhelmed, or just not feeling it, but your members are still there.
When your mental bandwidth is low, anti-engaging behaviors can sneak in without you even realizing it. Unfortunately, those small moments can quietly push members away.
Let’s talk about how to stay engaging even on the hardest days. You’ll walk away with simple ways to show up with intention keeping engagement strong even when your mood is ⛈️.
Amanda Lea Kaiser is a member engagement strategist and author of Elevating Engagement: Uncommon Strategies for Creating a Thriving Member Community.
She has studied engagement for over 25 years—first, consumer engagement while managing the beloved Crayola brand, and now member engagement for associations and professional communities. As a researcher, author, and frequent experimenter, she is at the forefront of exploring how engagement is rapidly changing.