As an association executive, leading people is essential for transforming your association’s vision into concrete, actionable, and timely objectives. This course explores the Lead People competency, including evaluating human resource needs, recruiting staff and volunteers, onboarding, managing performance, and driving change. The course aims to develop leadership skills in guiding teams, managing individuals, and ensuring personal growth.

The Establish Direction competency area explores everything from financial planning, budgeting, annual planning, maintaining brand and reputation and partnering for success.

Day-to-day operations might not carry the same shine as a carefully presented strategic plan but they are essential to that plan’s success. Managing cash flows, facilities, technological requirements are all important aspects of an association’s success.

The 2025 Benefits & Compensation Report provides essential salary and benefit information on all levels of staff within Canada’s association and not-for-profit and communities. This latest report, reflecting data collected in fall 2024, provides insight on remuneration data, statistics and emerging trends relative to executives, directors, managers and frontline employees working in all types and sizes of organizations within the sector.