Improved team working and membership involvement

Building Relationships & Knowledge through Collaboration

iNovem Team Initiative™ can help committees, working parties and special interest groups communicate with each other more effectively, by providing a common online workspace in which members and staff can share documents, exchange ideas, take part in discussions, arrange events, assign and manage project tasks and run surveys to seek consensus.

The challenge - engaging and involving members

By introducing online team working and community networks, an association will find it easier and more cost effective to engage members and increase their level of involvement.

The strategy is simple: by improving the way you communicate with your members you turn passive members into active members and active members into future leaders and board directors. This ensures strength, growth and vibrancy.

Benefits for both you and your members

For an association, Team Initiative can provide many benefits:

• increased levels of participation
• a better understanding of members' interests and opinions
• improved collaboration and team-working
• faster exchange of information
• earlier delivery of projects
• the ability to collect, manage, distribute and archive documents and discussions
• dramatically reduced administration and publication costs
• lower travel expenses

Members also benefit directly from the ability to participate online as they will be able to:

• manage their time and resources to make more effective contributions
• participate more frequently than they would otherwise be able to
• focus their involvement on areas of specific interest
• share experiences with others and seek assistance from specialists
• have a unified and consistent method to access and contribute information
• take an active part in formal and informal consultations
• be kept informed and up-to-date via instant notifications
• develop new relationships and opportunities to network
• have access to a valuable knowledge base and archive of past communications

Team Initiative can be easily branded and customised to seamlessly integrate with an association’s existing web site, providing a valuable and secure online resource for members and staff alike. The software can be purchased or provided as a fully hosted service by iNovem, therefore reducing the initial capital outlay and IT resources required.

Formal consultations
Built on the same iNovem collaboration engine as Team Initiative, iNovem eConsult™ makes it easier for associations to form policy and gather membership views in response to wider government consultations.

Team Initative for Associations

• See the Team Initiative Overview