07/10/2017

Association Leaders: Stop Saying You’re Overworked

Work-hour bragging needs to become a thing of the past

Many times over the years I have heard association board leaders say that they have to commit a tremendous number of hours per week to do their work. In fact, I have actually heard a board leader say that they spend over 50 hours a week at their volunteer position!

First of all, if that is actually the case, you need to radically rethink your governance and the role of your association’s volunteer leaders. But more likely, the board leader was just bragging.

According to a 2011 article in Monthly Labor Review, a Labor Department journal, Americans tend to overestimate how many hours they work in a week by 5-10 percent, either because of faulty memory or because they want to give the impression they are working harder than others.

Please click here to read the entire article from Barnes Association Consultants.