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03/14/2023

Ever-changing Times and the Agile Board

Being agile aids in avoiding stress

When the pandemic took hold in 2020, plenty of association boards understandably took a state-of-emergency posture, hustling to convene and make rapid decisions about how their organization should respond. The 12-person board of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), by contrast, was unusually calm.

"Honestly, there was no change," said AAMFT CEO Tracy Todd. "Maybe things sped up a little bit, but our process remained the same because that has been our focus for 10 years—how to be quick, agile, nimble, without the board getting into the staff or the staff getting into the board. All of that we have pretty much down."

AAMFT's experience draws an important distinction for association boards: Rapid response isn't the same thing as agility, and going into crisis mode isn't the same thing as being strategic.

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