As a conference organizer or meeting planner, what keeps you up at night? What traits do we normally monitor of a conference? What are the healthy monitors of a sustainable conference? How should conference organizers define success?

1. How Healthy Is Your Conference?

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4. Director of Education & Engagement 4

5. Discuss normal health 5 monitors of your meetings.

6. Identify the signs of 6 excellent health for your meetings.

7. Explore the formula 7 to create sustainable healthy conferences.

9. WIIFM

10. WIIFM

11. 11 Prevention

12. 12 Early detection chances for treatment & cure higher

13. Produce vibrant participants

14. What keeps you up? Keeps you up at night?

15. Acid Reflux

16. Sleeplessness

18. Fear no one coming

19. Monitor

20. Monitor

21. Inputs & Outputs Inputs & outputs

22. Inputs & Outputs Inputs & outputs Expense/Rev

23. Inputs & Outputs Inputs & outputs Expense/Rev Attendance

24. Inputs & Outputs Inputs & outputs Expense/Rev Attendance Exhibitors

25. Inputs & Outputs Inputs & outputs Expense/Rev Attendance Exhibitors Sponsors

26. What should we monitor? Should Monitor

27. What should we monitor? Should Monitor Loyalty – 70%

28. What should we monitor? Should Monitor Loyalty – 70% Resigns – 80%

29. What should we monitor? Should Monitor Loyalty – 70% Resigns – 80% Speakers – 80%

30. What should we monitor? Should Monitor Content problem-centric

31. What should we monitor? Should Monitor Content problem-centric Adult White Space

32. What should we monitor? Should Monitor Content problem-centric Adult White Space Risk taking - 20%

33. We need to measure The Human Stuff

34. People are not cogs!

35. People are not #s, inputs and outputs

36. Performance changes through participants

37. Leverage collective brain wealth of participants

38. S = (PT)C

39. S = (PT)C

40. S = (PT)C S = Success

41. S = (PT)C S = Success P = Purpose

42. S = (PT)C S = Success P = Purpose T = Talent

43. S = (PT)C S = Success P = Purpose T = Talent c = Culture

44. Purpose

45. Purpose Why coming together?

46. Purpose Why coming together? Shared purpose.

47. Purpose Why coming together? Shared purpose. Threaded content.

48. Talent

49. Talent Don’t just define topics & fill.

50. Talent Don’t just define topics & fill. Identify big goals.

51. Talent Don’t just define topics & fill. Identify big goals. Help speakers know intended outcomes.

52. Talent Secure speakers as you find them.

53. Talent Secure speakers as you find them. Work with veteran educators.

54. Culture

55. Culture Participants identify your corp. culture by how you treat them.

56. Culture Participants identify your corp. culture by how you treat them. Do you trust team & each other to do right thing?

57. Culture Who cares about the baby?

58. Culture Who cares about the baby? When participant’s experience not co-owned, things fall

59. Culture MTG: not sum individual outputs

60. Culture MTG: not sum individual outputs Team produces together with each not against

61. S = (PT)C 0 - Purpose 0 - Talent 0 - Success

62. Healthy conferences reinvent meeting logistics against objective measures of purpose, talent & culture.

63. Discuss normal monitors 63 conditions of your meetings.

64. Inputs & Outputs Inputs & outputs Expense/Rev Attendance Exhibitors Sponsors

65. Identify the signs of 65 excellent health for your meetings.

66. What should we monitor? Should Monitor Loyalty – 70% Resigns – 80% Speakers – 80%

67. What should we monitor? Should Monitor Content problem-centric Adult White Space Risk taking - 20%

68. Explore the formula 68 to create sustainable healthy conferences.

69. S = (PT)C S = Success P = Purpose T = Talent c = Culture

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