Achieve more!
Find out how at the Associations Forum National Conference in Melbourne, 29-30 July 2009.

Welcome. With 30 technical sessions and three international keynote speakers this is your opportunity to discover and develop new strategies and resources to boost your organisations value to members. Tap into and meet the needs of your key stakeholders more powerfully and more immediately than ever before.

The Associations Forum National Conference '09 gives you a unique opportunity to hear from some of the world's brightest minds on how to maximise engagement to boost performance. Associations Forum National Conference '09 is the perfect forum for those seeking new ways to pursue excellence, and to connect with other association executives.

Key topics include:

• Global Economic & Financial Crisis: Implications of the Turbulence for Australian Associations and Charities and our Nation
• Benchmarking and Best Practices for High Performance Associations
• How to be an Entrepreneurial CEO in Times of Immense Challenge
• The Fundraising Profession in 2009
• Strategic Awareness: Creating a Strategic Culture with your Board and Staff
• Effective Lobbying on a Shoestring Budget
• How the New Industrial and Employment Legislation will affect Associations and Charities
• Social Enterprise Partnerships
• Managing Conflicting and Divergent Views in an Association
• When the Going Gets Tough - Don't Cut Marketing
• Best Practice in Volunteer Support Programs
• Positive Financial Governance in Challenging Times
• Compliance and Risk Management Strategies for the Not-For-Profit Sector
• Engaging Young People with your Cause
• Salary Packaging: Remunerating Employees in Difficult Financial Times
• The Importance of a Marketing Strategy
• Myth Busting Membership Retention
• Maximising Attendance at Your Association Conference
• The Foundations of Effective Boards
• Best Technology Practice for Associations
• The conference program has been expanded this year to include five streams of education sessions, including practical workshops where you'll be given valuable techniques and tools that you can use straight away at your Association or Charity!

Keynote speakers include:

• John H. Graham, President and CEO of the American Society of Association Executives
• Robin Lokerman, President Asia Pacific, CEO Institutional Division, MCI, Singapore
• Jeff Oughton, Economic and Financial Expert, Beyond Economics and Former Head of Australian Economics & Industry Intelligence, National Australia Bank
• Jim Pealow, Managing Partner, Association Management Consulting and Evaluation Services, Canada
• Associate Professor John Rasa, Director, Australian Centre for Leadership Development
• The conference program handbook with all of the details about this important sector event can be viewed online, click on this link or image! >>> Associations Forum National Conference 09.
  
  
  

Special group offer - your 3rd delegate comes free!

Save more! If you register three delegates from the same NFP organisation, the third comes free. For more information email Lucy at admin@associations.net.au or call 02 9904 8200.