Aaron Wolowiec

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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? Growth in the delivery of conference presentations is an iterative process.

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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). Response 2. Just the Facts.

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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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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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Our screwed up thinking about creating conference experiences

Aaron Wolowiec

And we’ve even institutionalized some defective planning processes based on those experiences and what serves us best in our practice. We bring our beliefs from our experiences with other institutions into our conference planning process. The Political Action Committee. We’ve had experiences with institutions and organizations.

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Achieve more: How research should inform your association’s meetings strategy

Aaron Wolowiec

When organizations want to reimagine a signature program or an entire annual meetings calendar (and don’t have the knowledge, skills and expertise of a professional development pioneer), I very often recommend the following five-step research process: Develop and conduct a member survey. Evaluate the process and the outcomes.

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Straight from an intern’s mouth

Aaron Wolowiec

RFP processes. I am responsible for our sponsorship program, registration process, evening events for ABA committee meetings and special events and many other day-to-day operations. I interned with the ABA three separate times. I worked directly with both the meetings and membership departments. Contract negotiation.

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