Association Chat: Career Development for Association Professionals
Association Chat happens on Twitter every Tuesday at 2 pm ET and is usually hosted by @kikiliatlien - but I had the lucky chance to step in for the week.
- [HOST] (Q1): How do you develop skills as an association professional? Where do you go for training?
@KyleeCoffman @ThadLurie [A1] Yup, the CSAE up here in Canada. Although they are more active in Ontario than here in BC #assnchat
@KyleeCoffman A1 There are many choices for training/prof development. Obv ASAE but I'd rec looking outside the industry too! #assnchat- @KyleeCoffman A1 (cont'd) Assoc. prof should also look to their job function and see what's best of breed w/in their field #assnchat
- @KyleeCoffman [A1] There is an informal group of Dir of Communications from assocs here in Vancouver. Informal learning. #assnchat
- @KyleeCoffman I'm not part of the group, just aware of it. Not sure how it got started. #assnchat
- @KyleeCoffman my knowledge is more on the events side of things so unfortunately I don't have a ton of recs beyond ASAE lol #assnchat
- [HOST] (Q2): Do you mentor others? Have you been mentored?
- @KyleeCoffman [A2] I do mentoring, but not in the assoc space (mentor Ph.D. students at UBC) #assnchat
- @AssociCom re: mentoring PhD's; Oh cool! Do you have a PhD? Should we be calling you Dr.? :) #assnchat
- @ThadLurie re: informal mentoring, you are telling them the truth! Hopefully it helps you do your job better too! #assnchat
