Whether you chose community management or it chose you, you are part of a mission with profound significance. This profession offers the rare opportunity to blend practical skills with meaningful purpose, creating spaces where life’s most important moments unfold. To elevate our industry, we must establish clear pathways for professional development.
Effective communication skills are vital to relationships and interactions among community association managers, boards, residents, and colleagues. “We’re dealing with peoples’ homes, and there is a huge emotional component there. We need to embody a mutual respect and be nonjudgmental and allow community members to feel heard.”
Since the 1970s, community associations have been a popular housing choice for people around the world—and the number of new condominium communities and homeowners associations is expected to increase by more than 3,000 in 2024, according to projections by the Foundation for Community Association Research, an affiliate organization of Community Associations Institute (CAI).
Day two of the 2023 CAI Annual Conference and Exposition: Community NOW introduced attendees to the first set of education sessions to inspire and inform. Topics ranged from building maintenance and collecting assessments to conflict and more.
The 2023 CAI Annual Conference and Exposition: Community NOW is officially underway, with more than 2,000 attendees and exhibitors celebrating CAI’s 50th anniversary. Stay tuned for updates!
