Aaron Wolowiec

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After Action Review: A Critical Component to Event Planning

Aaron Wolowiec

Let’s take a look at a few ways we can use an After Action Review (AAR) to help wrap up an event planning cycle and guide us in future events. When we talk about successful event planning, the emphasis is quite often on the word “planning” and all the tools and techniques we employ to ensure a successful event. But what about after the event?

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Mobile Event Trends for Today’s Events and Beyond

Aaron Wolowiec

In this post, we will review what opportunities await your association’s events this year and beyond! How do we expect mobile devices to affect event engagement this year?

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Your Guide to Compensating Event Speakers

Aaron Wolowiec

Let’s review some common questions about event speaker compensation. Wondering where to start when it comes to paying speakers?

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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.

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

Aaron Wolowiec

Self-evaluations conducted by speakers and peer-reviewed by staff/volunteers. Key insights from an outside consultant conducting an education audit during the conference. Aggregate feedback from attendee evaluations focused more on learning outcomes than on attendee reactions.

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Navigating Extreme Association Trends

Aaron Wolowiec

After reviewing facts supporting both sides of this trend, attendees did not believe that membership is in a desperate state of decay. In fact, in a global survey of 2,300 Harvard Business Review subscribers, 95% said that face-to-face meetings are both key to successful long-term relationships and to building strong relationships.

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Association Hunger Games: Victory or Defeat?

Aaron Wolowiec

According to a 2005 Harvard Business Review article, “Companies typically realize only about 60% of their strategy’s potential value because of defects and breakdowns in planning and execution.”. The Case for Execution.

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