Aaron Wolowiec

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Selecting and coaching speakers to deliver quality digital presentations

Aaron Wolowiec

This call provides detailed instructions for submission of papers for assessment and selection by a review committee. Ultimately, constituent submissions are returned to the committee for review, scoring and selection. Ultimately, staff inherent speakers from one of these two methods. 30, 60 and 90 days).

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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). Is this really a big need?

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A new face, a new format and all things ORGPRO

Aaron Wolowiec

As you likely know, I’ve served as the chair of the ORGPRO 2013 Program Committee for the last year. Henry Center for Executive Development , will share with us the projects she’s working on as chair of the ORGPRO Community Engagement Committee. June 18: Shana Killips, CMP, CTA, sales manager at The James B.

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No more burnout blues

Aaron Wolowiec

Do-nothing committees. We believe that’s because the current model of association volunteering, based on standing committees, is broken. However, the era in which members had ample time and resources to serve on traditionally-organized committees that made all decisions slowly, deliberatively and collaboratively is over.

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Speaker coaching: The key to unlocking top-rated conference sessions

Aaron Wolowiec

When’s the last time your organization’s education committee was asked to identify the three to five greatest challenges currently inhibiting its industry speakers from reaching their fullest potential during the annual conference?

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Volunteer management: I gotta feeling

Aaron Wolowiec

In addition to committees and councils, volunteers support our organizations as board members, SMEs and speakers (many of whom are uncompensated). And with the amount of work our associations set out to accomplish each year, we simply cannot afford to perpetuate these types of off-putting experiences.

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Change is good…right?

Aaron Wolowiec

Those organizations with a specific system tend to handle new ideas in a variety of ways: 50 percent rely on staff initiative; 48 percent have a special committee or group; and 41 percent develop new ideas with the CEO. Permission to take risk also plays a major role in getting personnel on board with innovation.