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How to Increase attendance and engagement and impact at your next conference!

Great Results Team Building

But if you want to increase attendance and engagement and really impact the audience at your next conference, we need to focus on more than the message. We need to frame the conference experience to ensure it adds value by changing behaviors! – 30-day social media promotional blast. – Podcast interview.

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5 Ways Social Media Can Accelerate Your Old School Sales Strategy

Let's Grow Leaders

“Oh, I don’t need any of that social media crap. You know, like building relationships, having a real conversation, solving problems…” I laughed, “Sounds like the perfect way to use social media to me!” 5 Ways to Use Social Media to Improve Your Sales. I’m old school. Solve a problem.

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Courage, Connection and the Flow of Ideas

Michael Lee Stallard

In early May I spoke at the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) International Conference and Exposition in Denver on the topic “Do Leaders Need to Make Employees Happy?”. Nine thousand learning and development professionals from 70 countries attended the conference.

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Antidote for Widespread Employee Discontent

Michael Lee Stallard

Last year, The Conference Board published a report with the subtitle “America’s Unhappy Workers.” ” The report pictured storm clouds on its cover and concluded that employee satisfaction was at its lowest point since The Conference Board began surveying it more that 20 years ago.

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How to Be an Education-First Leader and Why It Matters

Thin Difference

This extends past asking your team to read a handbook or attend a seminar. Find opportunities to learn with your team, in addition to attending training seminars, conferences and other events. If you want to create a framework that values education, you need to immerse your team in this environment from the moment you hire them.

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Encourage Employees to Talk More

Tony Mayo

The famous MIT Media Lab has developed a compact device, pictured above, to track and quantify these all-important employee interactions. Informally talking out problems and solutions, it seemed, produced better results than following the employee handbook or obeying managers’ e-mailed instructions.

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What Creating Sketchnotes Taught Me About #Learning

QAspire

My alternative pursuits like writing , blogging, photography , social media etc. People shared these sketch notes in their classes, meetings and even during conferences. – – – – – Additional Resources for sketchnote enthusiasts: Read a sample chapter from Mike Rohde’s book “ The Sketchnote Handbook ”.