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1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Environmental issues are at the forefront of today's business, community, and global concerns. Incorporating sustainability in the planning and execution of events can deliver exceptional experiences.
This webinar addresses sustainability as a competitive and branding parameter, affecting the social, environmental and economic aspects. In the world of business, sustainability is an approach designed to foster longevity by taking into consideration how a given organization aligns its operations to meet the expectations of corporate responsibility. We can help your organization make sustainable... attainable.
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Applying psychology and neuroscience findings to create an impactful event experience
Presented by: Victoria Matey
Psychology and neuroscience provide a lot of insights on such issues as human interaction, brains work, and behavior change. All of these are critical when it comes to events: event planners strive for creating the best learning environment, great networking opportunities and a catalyst for further changes for their participants. By learning about findings from psychology and neuroscience and applying them to event design, event professionals would come one step further to creating meaningful, memorable, and ultimately more impactful, event experiences.
Learner Outcomes:
1. Determine why it's crucial to learn and leverage psychological knowledge in event design.
2. Learn about three elements of engagement that come from neuroscience research
3. Understand the basics of how various elements of event design can influence participants on the psychological and physiological level
3 Steps to Clarify and Strengthen Your Leadership Voice
Presented by: Donna Brighton
Despite decades of research, millions of leadership articles and books, there is no widely accepted definition of leadership. That is because each person’s approach to leadership is as unique as the leader. Increase your effectiveness and influence by improving the clarity and strength of your leadership voice. This session is for mold-breaking, high-impact leaders to identify their unique skills and leadership perspective, so they can lead in unexpected ways and achieve unprecedented results.
Learner Outcomes:
1. Understand the dimensions of a leadership voice in order to get clear on your unique voice. Do you know how you sound? How you should sound?
2. Create a personal leadership definition so that you capture your unique, dynamic natural ability (DNA) and lead in a more authentic manner based on what leadership means to you.
3. Own Your Impact and Increase Your Influence. Create an actionable plan to improve your leadership effectiveness.
Effectively Dealing with Workplace Disrespect
Presented by: Paul Pelletier, LL.B, PMP CAPS
Research shows that more than 70% of workers have been impacted by disrespectful workplace behavior. Disrespect incomes in many forms: rudeness, sabotage, gossip, bullying, harassment, ignoring, demeaning, controlling and the list goes on. Regardless of the type, bad behavior poisons the work environment. Its impact is enormous: disengagement; loss of creativity and productivity; and sick leave, benefit, and turnover costs. It not only creates dysfunctional workplaces, but it can also impact your events, client relationships, reputation, and bottom line.
Fortunately, there are many proactive, preventative measures that you can take to manage disrespect. With many tools and an action plan, everyone in your workplace can create an effective strategy to prevent, manage and eliminate your workplace nightmare.
Learner Outcomes:
Outlining the impacts of disrespect on team engagement, performance, and workplace culture.
Talking it over-improving communication in disrespectful situations.
Creating solutions - recommendations and action plans for resolution.
1 Clock Hour | Domain I: Marketing
Every entrepreneurial company has no choice but to focus on sales. The magic may be the brand, but the reality is the sales force. Your brand can’t fly without it.
Whether you’re a team of 1 or 101, maximizing the sales team around one common goal that creates value for the client, the company, and the sales rep is the only way to focus the activities of a sales team. It is critical that each sales rep is able to measure the value of each activity undertaken during the day and can make the connection to the overarching goals of the company.
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3 Clock Hours | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Summit Schedule:
Session 1 | New Rules for a New World
Speaker: Mike Walsh
COVID-19 is not only changing our way of life, it will hasten the arrival of a radical new future of work. Remote work around the globe is just the start of a much bigger transformation set to reshape the nature of business itself. In order to survive, every organization will have to virtualize. Whether it be serving customers through digital channels or leveraging AI, algorithms and automation to ensure business continuity - we are likely to experience in the next twelve months, a decade's worth of change.
Mike Walsh's inspiring new keynote presentation will offer audiences an insight into the organizations and leaders that are successfully navigating this period of change, and how to create a playbook for their own transformation. Becoming future-proof is more than just about getting through the current crisis - it is about being ready for the new world that awaits us on the other side.
Session 2 | Planner Panel
Speaker(s): Michelle Robinson, Amy Ledoux, Colleen M. Connor, Elizabeth Sage, Tom Egan
Join us for a conversation moderated by Michelle Robinson, Senior Meeting Planner, Meeting & Travel Services for Nestlé Purina PetCare Company about how planners are moving forward with their events in the near term. Learn how leaders in the association, finance and bioscience sectors are adjusting their plans, realigning resources and communicating value. Hear about their strategy to deliver the best experience whether that is through virtual, hybrid, or in-person events. You will also have the ability to ask your questions on how these
professionals are reimagining the future.
Session 3 | Future Transformation Requires Innovation NOW
Speaker: Michael Bush
Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place to Work will talk about purpose-driven leadership while sharing current insights into the best people practices from his 10,000 customers including some of the biggest brands in the world. Michael believes the new reasons for people to convene will create new opportunities that will truly re-define an “event" as we know it. One to one connections will be critical to building trust in a physically distributed world. Future-state physical meetings will be the essential way to build NEW trusting relationships and they will depend on the delivery of a solid foundation for trust. Virtual meetings will serve to educate, inspire and DEEPEN existing relationships. The ability to do both the NEW and the DEEPENing of relationships will expand market
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1 Clock Hour | Domain C: Risk Management
While COVID-19 has not been proven to be transferable through food, can it theoretically be possible? Think about all the touch points there is with the food and beverage we serve at events. Food safety is something planners often overlook, relying on caterers to handle. In the new normal, what do we need to consider about our attendees safety as it relates to the food and beverage we serve them. Buffets vs plated vs boxed? Single-serve prepackaged food? How many people do we sit at table = social distancing? Do we need to add sneeze guards? F&B costs are already high, what if we need to have more servers so to serve the buffets? Do we need to add hand washing stations to the rooms? Do we go back to using bottled water vs. water jugs.
Learner Outcomes:
1. Learn the what questions you should ask food service providers about their food safety practices.
2. Familiarize yourself with food safety policies and practices required of food service providers
3. Discover ways to provide safe food and beverage experiences easily.
