Enhancing Meetings and Conferences

Enhancing Meetings, Conferences, Celebrations, and Campaigns

Almost every organization engages meetings and conferences to reinforce their organizational culture, and often key decision-makers have to manage a nagging doubt about whether their gatherings are making the most of their organization’s resources of both time and money to convene large numbers of people. We are obsessive about the quality of meetings. We can help clients at all phases in the planning process. With our coaching, assistance, and/or facilitation, we can make sure there is great alignment between preliminary activities, process design, participant expectations, and meeting objectives. Our work has covered a wide variety of events for a myriad of clients. See our testimonials and client list here.

Research shows that direct participation in meetings and events that include audience polling have a larger impact and long-term positive effect on participants. The Dialogue Company has world-class expertise in audience polling and other engagement methods, and our clients rely on us to make their trainings and meetings more interactive. David Campt is a renowned expert in polling technology. See his book Read the Room for Real.

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Enhancing Conferences with the People’s Plenary

People from CEOs to professional meeting planners know that a key factor in creating a dynamic and invigorating conference is providing an experience early in a conference that creates a sense of excitement, informs the participants about what to expect, and strengthens the sense of community. To achieve these goals, many of our clients engaged us to deploy our signature experience called the People’s Plenary. This 10- to 90 minute experience combines audience polling, humor, groups surveys and sometimes short un-facilitated conversations. In addition to creating an unparalleled conference energizer, some of our clients have leveraged this opportunity to add a few questions that can help provide conference organizers with key information to assist with conference management or gather data about important longer-term dynamics within the group.

Planning a conference or extended stakeholder engagement campaign

Increasingly, people who manage high-functioning organizations or community processes know that the best way to address complex problems is to get more information from stakeholders and invite them to play a role in creating solutions. We provide assistant to clients who pursue excellence through high quality participant engagement. Our clients in this work have ranged widely, from philanthropists discussing equity in the region to regional associations planning and creating a multi-year community engagement process. We work closely with our clients so that together we can think through the inevitable trade-offs in creating first rate processes such as managing complex and diverse objectives, making participants feel included, and getting actionable information.

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