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AAM’s human resources-related programs cover a variety of topics including working with volunteers.

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Supporting Staff Well-being in a Partisan Time

Growing partisan tensions and increasing public tendencies to engage in hostility and rudeness are adding to the stress faced by museums’ frontline staff. How can museums protect …

Front Line Staff Take Center Stage in Career Advancement

 What’s more valuable than successfully hiring new talent? Retaining and advancing the skills of your existing, experienced, and well-trained staff. Learn from employees at the …

Wellbeing Creating Thriving Teams in the Post Pandemic Workplace

This recording is from the Future of Museums Summit held November 1-2, 2023. Over the past three decades, Gallup has conducted extensive interviews with 2.7 million employees from over …

Navigating the Nonprofit Labor Shortage

This recording is from the Future of Museums Summit held November 1-2, 2023. Half of museums are experiencing difficulty filling open positions. What are job seekers looking for, and how …

Yes, I’m a Real Person! Adapting Your Volunteer Program during Instability

This is a recorded session from the 2021 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. As it cautiously reopened after closing for COVID-19, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum …

The Unionization of Museums: What Management and Staff Need to Know

Learn the basics of the collective bargaining process, the advantages and disadvantages of unionization, and strategies to manage the various possible outcomes of the voti…

Ethical Contracting Is Your Museum Doing It

A relationship is a two-way street, and it’s no different for independent museum professionals (IMPs) and the museums that hire them. This session, hosted by IMPs, aims to make sure that …

Let’s Make a Match: Museum Volunteers

This is a recorded session from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. Learn how an effective application process prevents onboarding volunteers who are not a good fit for your …

Self-care in the Museum Workplace

Watch this recorded webinar, hosted by Blackbaud, exploring how museum workers can employ self-care to sustain physical and mental health, and how museums can foster self-care in the …

Leadership: The Self-Aware Museum Leader

Leadership experts and museum colleagues address the links between self-awareness and successful leadership, in addition to the connections between self-aware leadership and organization…

Recruiting, Selecting and Placing Museum Volunteers

This recorded webinar addresses key elements of recruiting, selecting, and placing volunteers, from resources and strategies for articulating the benefits of volunteering and recruiting for …

Latest Stories from AAM

The 2024 Museum Store Gift Guide

Category: Alliance Blog
As cheerful as the holiday season can be, it can also be a dizzying blur of to-dos, chief among them the task of finding thoughtful, interesting gifts that will delight their recipients. …

Imaginative Learning in Museums, Part 1: A 2024 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers Data Story

Category: Alliance Blog
This visual Data Story is based on findings from the 2024 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers, a national survey of American museum visitors from AAM and Wilkening Consulting. Every year, the …

In the Line of Duty: Supporting and Training Frontline Museum Staff

Category: Human Resources
The American Alliance of Museums offers the following information as guidance. Thank you to Dorothy Svgdik and Samantha Doolin for their review and critique of the content. The information …

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