Aaron Wolowiec

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Vote for us for best meeting planning company!

Aaron Wolowiec

As you probably gathered from our recap of 2015 , it’s been a pretty awesome year for Event Garde! With 3,000 votes received for 2015, last year’s Best of Michigan Awards final voter tally set a record, so let’s do it again! And it shows. We’d love your support, and ask that you vote for us! Click here to vote.

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Instructional Design: The New Normal

Aaron Wolowiec

That is, they’re not familiar with adult learning, cognitive processing, learning styles and learning objectives – all of which are just the tip of the iceberg. 26, 2015, I’ll be further exploring what this means to associations in a webinar I’m developing for the Michigan Society of Association Executives. So, on Feb.

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Learning plans for the New Year

Aaron Wolowiec

Just this week my chiropractor reminded me that 2015 is about 1/12 over. As always, I spent some down time over the holidays contemplating my 2015 resolutions. As always, establishing anticipated outcomes and target dates lends credibility and urgency to the process. January has nearly come and gone. It’s hard to believe.

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Call for Presentations: Dead or Alive?

Aaron Wolowiec

The new normal” is shifting to a process whereby a cross section of the association’s membership comes together as a conference task force or education committee and: Brainstorms what topics the members should be hearing at XYZ meeting (based upon the anticipated audience and conference goals/objectives). visuals, handouts, activities).

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Time to breathe…and think long-term

Aaron Wolowiec

But thanks to periods of economic stability, for the first time in a decade, these always-on-go folks will have time to take a breath and think strategically, according to Meeting Professionals International’s Meetings Outlook, 2015 Spring Edition. It was developed in partnership with Visit Denver.

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Nonprofits and associations are hiring…even in a candidate’s market

Aaron Wolowiec

In a major shift from 2014-2015, our survey results show that it has become a candidate’s market, increasing the challenge for nonprofit managers to find and hire the staff they need and to pay the higher salaries required,” the report says. Avoid a lengthy hiring process so “the good ones” don’t get away.

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Us vs. them

Aaron Wolowiec

In 2015, customers are looking for more than a transaction; they’re looking for custom solutions that can be constructed only through authentic relationships of the type, duration and intensity they—not you—want.

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