Knowledge Sessions Monday, 2 March 2009
16.30 - 18.00
How to Create Energy in Meetings
Bo Krüger
A majority of meetings will at some point reach everybody’s spot of boredom. In this workshop, you will be enriched with tips and tricks on how to create energy in meetings, regardless of the number of participants. Energy is often solely related to teambuilding events, but it is both relevant and possible in all kinds of meetings. Meetings with lots of energy among the participants are more effective, inspiring, fun and beneficial.
In the session, you will explore:
- What can we learn from Hollywood blockbusters
- How and when to use icebreakers and energizers
- How moving bodies can move minds
Bo Krüger is from Moving Minds and Meetovation®
New Technology Trends Transforming the Industry
Corbin Ball, Corbin Ball Associates
What's happening with technology and how will it directly affect you? This interactive session will cover the most significant emerging technology trends impacting meeting planners, associations and society in general. It will finish up with the opportunity to share your views, ask questions, and learn from each other about how these trends will affect us all.
Corbin Ball, CSP, CMP, MS is an international speaker, consultant and writer helping clients worldwide use technology to save time and improve productivity.
Take a look at Corbin's video message: Technology trends
Pecha Kucha Part 2 - You Can Do It!
Stephane Baillee-Gee
Self-designated volunteers from Part 1 get to deliver their own Pecha Kucha and receive feedback and coaching from Stephane. All presenters will have two hours to get ready, be able to fine tune their presentations, and benefit from lots of interaction. If you’re interested but not presenting, come and see the results.
In this continued session, you will:
- Actually do it yourself
- Receive feedback
- Walk away with an incredibly powerful presentation
Stephane Bailee-Gee is a consultant for Innotiimi.
Managing and Working in a Matrix: How to Operate in Changing Organisational Structures
David Bancroft-Turner
Most of us are familiar with working in a hierarchy, as it is based on an expanded version of the traditional family structure. Getting things done, decision making and problem solving can be quite slow and organisations are seeking alternative ways to speed up their response times to their customers. Many organisations are using ‘Matrix’ structures as an alternative and this involves people working with others from different functional areas, to work across the organisation e.g. by using business or process streams, projects, cross functional teams, business partnering, shared services etc. This is a very different way of organising a workforce and it requires different skills and behaviours to make it work effectively.
Please have a look at David's video-message: Managing and working in a Matrix
Adult Learning
Carole McKellar, CMM
The purpose of this course is to provide basic knowledge about researching, designing, validating, delivering and evaluating professional adult education programs.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Describe how to apply adult learning principles to various types of educational programs
- Apply effective learning techniques to engage different generations in a learning process
- Contrast how to incorporate on line (Internet) learning with in person instructional techniques
- Display examples of how to match learning outcomes to needs, wants and desires of adult learners
- Describe how to develop valid and reliable assessment techniques
- Describe how to develop the appropriate body of knowledge for your educational programme that matches or supports industry certification or licensing requirements
- Contrast various high and low context cultural styles and their impact upon adult education design and delivery
- Describe the comprehensive process for evaluation of adult education programs
Carole McKellar, CMM, Chartered FCIPD is chief executive officer The RfB Group.
Staying in the Helicopter®: And Lead Effectively
Roger Harrop, author, non-executive director, SME business advisor, mentor and consultant focused on improved sustained profitable growth. Kindly provided by Speakers with Content
It is important that as a key member of your organisation and of the meeting and event industry that you take time out, step back, review, and hone your leadership skills from a CEO’s perspective. This interactive and participation-driven session will stimulate and challenge you to think as a strategic leader. As a result, you will gain a fresh perspective on your leadership skills and discover how you can significantly contribute to the success and growth of yourself and your organisation.
Packed with the lessons from global research, team-sharing, proven real world strategies, practical business models, case studies, stories and simple techniques, this session has been carefully structured to ensure there is real action learning - practical and effective.
Take a look at Roger Harrop's video message: Staying in the Helicopter: Effective Leadership
Key Conversations
Paul Bridle, Graeme Codrington & Rohit Talwar. Facilitated by Mike van der Vijver & Eric de Groot
This session is your opportunity to meet the key speakers of the day, ask your questions, and discuss your business cases. Make sure to connect with the experts in the field in this informal setting, where you can have more in depth conversations on the experts’ topics. Make sure you get out of this session what you need and expect - the speakers are there for you!