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December 2023: What's Ahead for 2024?

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 4 days ago
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[Inside CMAA] Developing Your Club Competencies

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 18 days ago
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Hello CMAA Leaders! The team and I are in the midst of drafting CMAA’s next Strategic Plan, and one of the areas of discussion has been education for club executives. As leadership competencies are changing at a pace that we need to continually “sharpen the saw” on our skills, should CMAA’s Certified Chief Executive (CCE) certification evolve? I think we all would say yes, as each of us goes about our own leadership journey. So, I started thinking about what are those new or evolving leadership competencies. Our world is characterized by rapid technological advancements, shifting demographics, and ever-changing global and local challenges, ...
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November 2023: Get More Involved in CMAA in 2024

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 25 days ago
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President and CEO Jeff Morgan, FASAE, CAE highlights the 2024 volunteer opportunities and expresses gratitude for CMAA members who shared their time and talents in 2023!
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October 2023: Our 2023 Progress Report

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 10-03-2023
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President and CEO Jeff Morgan, FASAE, CAE, provides a progress report on the 2023 year and shares 2024 goals.
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September 2023: Fall Events for All

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 09-14-2023
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Jeff Morgan, FASAE, CAE, talks about the diverse educational opportunities available this fall for CMAA members at all stages of their careers, including the Chef Summit, National Student Education Conference, and more.
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August 2023: Education

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 08-14-2023
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In this month's Vlog, Jeff Morgan, FASAE, CAE, talks about education, the factors impacting hospitality educators today, and insights from his participation in the recent International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) Conference. Watch now!
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July 2023: Taking Care of Our Members and Our Staff

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 07-19-2023
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June 2023: Community and Collaboration

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 06-12-2023
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April 2023: A Sneak Peak of the 2024 World Conference Site

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 05-11-2023
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March 2023: The 2023 State of Our Association

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 03-13-2023
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February 2023: Broadening Our CMAA Communities

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 02-10-2023
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Hello CMAA! I hope to see many of you at the World Conference and Club Business Expo later this month. We have excellent registration numbers that have exceeded our member and supplier expectations. To accommodate everyone, we added two additional hotels for attendees, and we will be running a daily shuttle to/from those satellite properties. I suspect this may be a post-COVID anomaly as last year some members and suppliers were still uncomfortable with travel and vaccine requirements. I am so glad those days are behind us. I am excited for the World Conference, and I look forward to sharing about CMAA during the Opening Business session. One area I will ...
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January 2023: Our Goals

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 01-17-2023
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Hello CMAA and Happy New Year! As 2023 begins I want to share our CMAA goals for the new year. These goals are established by the Board of Directors and CMAA’s professional staff each fall and coincide with our fiscal year beginning November 1. These are listed in no priority order: Update CMAA’s Strategic Plan leveraging Board and Committee work as we look to adjust due to changes in clubs and society since the 2021 approval. Complete work with CMAA member group(s) on a verified club internship program for student members/others interested in pursuing a club management career. Continue to work with university faculty to encourage better ...
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December 2022: Engaging, Empowering, and Connecting

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 12-13-2022
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Hello CMAA! As 2022 nears an end, I want to share some of our accomplishments from the past year. You will receive a more thorough update in CMAA’s Annual Report, released near the World Conference. I will also be sharing more in my State of the Association live at Conference. Next month, I will share our areas of focus for 2023. In the meantime, below are several of our 2022 operational highlights: The lifeblood of any member organization is its members, and we are pleased that over the past year, we welcomed 900-plus members and now have more than 7,300 CMAA members . These numbers are both significant and record highs. My thanks to CMAA Chapters ...
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November 2022: What Makes a Great Volunteer?

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 11-15-2022
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Hello CMAA! One thing we all have in common is volunteers who shape our clubs and our Association. We all have volunteer committee members, and/or board members. A legal definition would share that a volunteer “is an individual who performs hours of service for a public agency for civic, charitable, or humanitarian reasons, without promise, expectation, or receipt of compensation for services rendered.” Many state statutes indicate “any volunteer shall be immune from civil liability in any action on the basis of any act or omission of a volunteer resulting in damage or injury if: 1) The volunteer was acting in good faith and within the scope of such volunteer's ...
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October 2022: Club Employee Demographic Assessment

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 10-18-2022
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Hello CMAA! I grew up in a small town of a few thousand people in northeastern Pennsylvania (the Poconos). While I wouldn’t change the experience where I lived, my upbringing gave me so many biases. Let me explain; it was never said, but we believed those from rural areas like my town, were not quite as bright as those from the city. We weren’t quite as sophisticated either. We thought we had hit the big time when our first fast food restaurant, McDonald’s, came to town. Ok, I was a child and that was exciting! Maybe that example is cute, but there were many more learned biases too. It wasn’t that local townsfolk purposely wanted to skew our thinking growing ...
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September 2022: Effecting Change

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 09-19-2022
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Hello CMAA! A few weeks ago, I went to the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE)’s annual conference. I have belonged to ASAE for more than 30 years and rarely miss attending, except for other obligations--or more recently, COVID. It was the first time we have gathered in three years and a couple of things surprised me. First, there was a vaccine mandate for the event in addition to a requirement of a negative COVID test. As you know CMAA dropped policies like this in early spring, but it made me realize how some throughout America and beyond are still focused on this as a key measure for safety. I was also reminded once I saw the reduced attendance ...
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August 2022: Exploring the Dues Increase

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 08-16-2022
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CMAA National Headquarters Alexandria, VA Hello CMAA Members! I want to share my thoughts on member dues, specifically CMAA National dues. I know your clubs have seen costs rise with the dramatic jump in inflation. I suspect the vast majority of you have already implemented or are contemplating member dues increases. Last month the CMAA Board of Directors met, and one important area of focus was the FY2023 budget, which begins November 1, 2022. CMAA 2023 membership renewals were mailed earlier this month and, as you likely noted, Professional membership dues increased by $25 or about 3 percent. There was a great deal of thought put into that decision ...
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July 2022: Expanding Your Network with Peer Groups

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 07-19-2022
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Hello CMAA! How many of you belong to a peer/mastermind/support group – or more than one? I counted mine and I have four that are really core to my interests and principles. They range from a kitchen cabinet within CMAA that I look to for insight and feedback, to a couple of industry peer groups, and a core group within my own professional association. I would be lost without them and leverage them often. These groups have helped as I have managed through business situations. They have helped as my career has evolved. They have helped me get through some personal challenges as well. While I have also had one-to-one mentor relationships, these groups have ...
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June 2022: Fishing

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 06-13-2022
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Hello CMAA! Throughout my career in association management, each organization I have been with has always had an advocacy-related role at the federal or state level. We would regularly conduct member fly-ins to DC; had a team of association staff working in a federal and a state legislative affairs department; and, for one organization, were responsible for educating new members of Congress on the intricacies of the financial markets via our foundation. At one point, I had the honor to testify in front of a Congressional Committee about equity ownership in the stock market. The Q & A portion was very nerve racking, but what a great experience representing ...
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May 2022: Embodying Meaningful Success

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 05-17-2022
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I recently saw a CMAA member’s post on LinkedIn that shared a concept called “meaningful success.” Meaningful success marks the points in time when: 1) we are doing things we love, 2) we are doing it well, and 3) we are serving others. These times can occur in our career, at home, or any place in life. At times when we are doing things where all three concepts intersect, we are in that space of “meaningful success.” Our life in this space is likely the most meaningful, most purposeful, most fulfilling and we are probably the happiest. I love this and strive to live my own life in this space as much as possible. Life is not just about success. It is really ...
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