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Studies show that 30-50% of meeting attendees are introverts, yet our meeting design is most definitely for extroverts. Designing meetings for every personality, learning style, educational need, generation and ‘vert’ is perplexing. From social butterflies to wall flowers, meetings have all kinds of characters with all kinds of needs and wants. With her down-to-earth style, Sharon will help you mindfully turn your meetings inside out and upside down to accommodate all the different styles in a truly inclusive way. Uncover engagement techniques that help you create a meeting that will charge and recharge every personality.
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1.5 Clock Hours | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
From the Expression Economy To The Experience Economy
Design Thinking at Work: How to Cultivate Creativity and Entrepreneurship
Presented by: The Lavin Agency Speakers Bureau
How do you distill a problem into a creative solution? Embrace design thinking? Empower your team? Pinpoint where your skill set and passion converge? Enter Sarah Prevette, serial entrepreneur, investor, and founder of Future Design School. In this talk, Prevette shares her ultimate credo and how it can change your business: Creativity as a skill set; entrepreneurship as a philosophy. Innovation can be taught, she says, as long as you embrace the mentality and deftness of the entrepreneur. Her keynotes and workshops are a hands-on exercise in identifying your organization’s problems and finding effective, out-of-the-box solutions that you can implement tomorrow.
A Conversation with Bruce Mau on What It Really Takes to Stop Planning Meetings and Start Designing Experiences
Beyond Performance, Living in Flow
In today's fast paced world is it possible to be successful without hard work, driving ambition and exacting plans? Those of us who study flow states understand that success can be accomplished through effortless spontaneity by creating a feeling of joy, vitality, aliveness, and present moment awareness.
Deepak Chopra will lead you to an understanding of how the universe functions with spontaneity, creativity and how you can harness that power in your own life through being present and without resistance in every moment.
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Musical Interludes
SongDivision is bringing our world-class team of musicians and facilitators to WEC and has designed an experience just for you. More than a house band, we have created a musical journey for you to enjoy throughout your time in Vegas.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain F: Stakeholder Management
Being great is no longer a differentiator. It is merely the entry fee. Winning is about leveraging competitive advantages, because competition is brutal, choices are vast and quality abounds! Branding veteran David Avrin, CSP will show you how to create meaningful differentiators to earn mind-share and build your brand.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain F: Stakeholder Management
Assumptions and anarchy loiters in the mind of the third-party planner. At least, that’s what a hotelier will say. This is a light-hearted look at the control issues, big egos, and demanding clients that comes with working with third-party planners, and a fun, interactive and intrinsic insight to their minds.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain F: Stakeholder Management
As a meeting planner you are constantly negotiating with and influencing your clients. Learn how to nurture these business relationships and the approach you take with negotiations. It will determine whether you have loyal, long term clients or whether they will look elsewhere for their next solution.
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Performance clauses like attrition and cancellation are challenging to negotiate and sometimes expensive to exercise. Force majeure is the very definition of a “grey area.” Using provided scenarios as well as examples from the audience, we’ll talk about the law that supports (and doesn’t support) common contract language and minor changes in wording that can yield huge dividends in protection.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
There are some really cool science-based strategies we can use to make our meetings more meaningful, magical, and memorable. In this highly interactive, fun, example-filled session you will learn about specific tools, tactics, and technologies for stimulating senses, stirring-up emotions, and activating brains to fall in love with your brand. You will learn the basics about how the human brain works, how our attention is activated, and what role our senses play in creating emotions. As a result, you will understand how to craft novel, multi-sensory, emotionally-diverse 360˙ experiences that will be much more attention grabbing than typical meetings.
There is a science and pattern to how human beings remember things (from working memory to short and long-term memory), knowing more about this process will allow you to utilize specific strategies to craft unforgettable moments in your meetings and events. After learning how other industry professionals are taking advantage of these neurological sensory activation strategies, you will leave armed and inspired to implement this knowledge to design future events which will leave a positive lasting impression on your target audience.
After learning how various industry professionals are taking advantage of these neurological sensory activation strategies, the participants will leave armed and inspired to implement this knowledge to design their next events to leave a positive lasting impression on their target audience.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain F: Stakeholder Management
The key to lead generation is knowing the difference between a prospect and a suspect. A prospect is a legitimate potential customer. A suspect is disguised as a prospect but is not going to buy your product and wastes your valuable sales time. In this session you’ll learn how to spot the difference and move forward.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain C: Risk Management
Risk management continues to be a hot topic in the events industry, but the focus is always on reacting to a catastrophe or disaster. While catastrophes and disasters are horrific, they are the responsibility of governments not event professionals. There is very little information on how to understand, and create, risk management plans. In this session you will get the chance to apply the Robson Risk Management Model to real events. You’ll walk away with an understanding of risk management and with an approach to creating a personalized risk management plan.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain C: Risk Management
You need to find a home for your meetings where the design, operation and services provided compliment your goals and help ensure you meet required outcomes. Consider 20 global innovations that you can experience today in meetings-focused venues that will help you reach your goals and objectives.
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