YOU’RE NOT ALONE
LEARN AND GROW WITH A PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
NETWORKING AND MENTORSHIP Why reinvent the wheel when you can adapt it with a mentor? Associations connect you to leaders who have stood where you are standing and succeeded. You can learn a lot from their failures, wisdom, and guidance. You can also connect with peers in your position and bounce ideas off of them. You won’t have to worry about competitors “stealing” your processes, and you have an honest, go-to support team to help you refine them before presenting them to your team. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH A business is only as good as the leader managing it, and all business leaders have room for improvement. An association can give you the tools to get there. And as you continue to learn, you’ll discover personal and professional areas that can be further refined. This personal development only makes you and your business stronger. Are you still not convinced you should join an association? Think of it this way: Your competitors could be growing through their involvement in an association while you remain stagnant. Push forward and connect with your peers today.
Business is competitive by nature. If competitors didn’t push our favorite brands to be better, they may not even exist. Our technology options would be limited without Apple’s ingenuity. Shipping options would be limited without UPS or FedEx. And access to our favorite athletic gear would be more limited if no one was pushing the top brands like Nike to innovate. Competition fuels our greatest inventions, but behind every great leader or business is a core network of like-minded people and innovators supporting them. Professional associations connect business leaders to fellow innovators in their industry without competition from local rivals. These organizations offer many benefits and little risk to business leaders looking to grow. If you haven’t yet joined a professional association, these three benefits just might get you to change your mind. EDUCATION AND RESOURCES Google is great for a quick answer, but when you need to learn something more nuanced, a simple internet search won’t cut it. Professional associations offer tailored, more in-depth help and resources like industry-specific training and webinars, how-to guides, and coaching. From peer advice and education to scholarly studies and reviews, associations act as a library of information for your industry.
BIZ TOOL OF THE MONTH: EVERNOTE ALL YOUR NOTES, FROM EVERY SOURCE, IN ONE PLACE
these essential functions, making up for any areas where the human brain may struggle with the rate at which new information must be processed. Evernote is completely customizable to your note-taking style and needs. You can seamlessly share notes between devices, search for previous notes without a problem with their robust search engine, and even connect to your notes without an internet connection. There are options for saving web resources, linking to docs and PDFs, and even searching for and identifying handwritten notes. Whether what you need to remember is on a physical sticky note or a hard-to- find webpage, you’ll be able to access it all through Evernote. I particularly love the convenience of having my notes available on all of my devices so that in the middle of a meeting, if I don’t have my phone on me, I can pull up my notes on my work computer. It certainly beats writing everything down with a pen and paper! So, if you’re overwhelmed by the amount of information you have to keep track of, there’s no better tool to utilize than Evernote.
The sheer breadth and depth of information that we can access through any device connected to the internet is nearly incalculable, and the rate at which that access is growing is only accelerating. If a part of your job is keeping track of large amounts of information, you need a tool that can help you keep up. When that’s the case, try Evernote.
Evernote is the perfect tool for all the obsessive note-takers out there who want to access all their notes and information with ease, no matter the device, the source of information, or whether you have internet access. If you have a piece of information you need to remember, Evernote will make sure that happens. According to Evernote’s website, founder Stepan Pachikov recognized that the human brain has three basic capabilities: remembering the past, building connections, and creating new ideas for the future. Evernote acts as an extension of
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