16. culture
Bet big on creative people,
give them enormous leeway
and support, and provide
them with an environment
where they can get honest
feedback from all.
38. Promotions & Outreach
•Create a strategy that ensures all tickets are sold.
•Work with the Student Life media team to ensure conference maintains a
positive brand that adheres to the values of the conference.
•Build a team to manage conference social media accounts in an innovative,
meaningful and consistent manner.
•Create a strategy to ensure at least 5-7 institutions from the region attend
the conference.
•Work with experience captain to oversee all outreach with attendees.
•With the support of the conference advisors, build a team of 5-7 students
that will work with you to accomplish the goals within your area.
39. Conference Experience
•Manage aspects of the student center reservation requests for the
conference.
•Create a menu for the conference and work with appropriate vendors to
coordinate meals for the conference.
•Dream up and execute a creative conference experience. This includes
stage design, the look of the lounge spaces, and any other components of
the overall conference experience.
•Oversee components of the registration and check in process to ensure
that the experience of attendees is cohesive from purchasing a ticket to the
closing speaker.
•With the support of the conference advisors, build a team of 5-7 students
that will work with you to accomplish the goals within your area.
40. Team Development & Communication
•Responsible for designing and coordinating the “full team meetings” with all
conference planning team members
•Come up with new ideas to streamline communication efforts between the
conference captains as well as the full conference planning team
•Organize new initiatives to build cohesion among the conference planning
team
•Work with the conference advisors to identify topics for training team
captains and coordinate those trainings
•Oversee the Mark Story Project--working with Promotions and Outreach
•With the support of the conference advisors, build a team of 5-7 students
that will work with you to accomplish the goals within your area.
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41. •Create a strategy to raise funds for the conference. You will set the
fundraising goal for the conference, and then work to achieve that goal with
hopes of surpassing it.
•Build strategic partnerships at the university. Partnerships that will help to
build in unique components to conference and/or cover costs of speakers.
•Develop good relationships with local business that can serve as
conference sponsors.
•Come up with creative ways to involve conference volunteers. Work with
experience captain to identify needs.
•With the support of the conference advisors, build a team of 5-7 students
that will work with you to accomplish the goals within your area.
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Conference Resources
44. •What's an example of a strong, successful team
you've been on and what made it function so
well?
•What pieces are important to building a strong
team?
BTeamwork Makes the
Dream Work
45. 9Your Communication Style
•How will you communicate with your team?
•How will you know they are doing what they say
they are doing?
•How do you want your team communicating their
progress, struggles, questions?
•How will you communicate expectations to your
team?
