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Maximise your conference dollar by actually having a strategy to ensure the ideas and information from the event are acted upon back in the work place. This process brings together the best of team coaching theory, facilitation and communications. Our facilitator works with you pre, during and most importantly post conference, to ensure the momentum is maintained.
As a guide we work to some simple but effective post-conference communication formulae.
As professionals we all attend training, conferences, seminars and more. In the best experiences we leave fired up and motivated to apply the great new ideas we learned. And even in the poorest experiences we tend to learn something that would be useful for us in our work. Far too often though, the excitement and ideas we have when we leave the workshop are replaced with a deluge of voice mail and emails and very little real change back on the job.
mww presents a process that is totally in your control outside of the training experience itself that you can complete in remarkably little time. This process and these specific steps will skyrocket the value you will receive from your investments of time, effort, and money.
After The Workshop
1. That evening.
a. Review your Action Idea notes – just read through them and reflect on the learning from the workshop (this doesn’t need to take more than a few minutes.)
b. Build an action plan. Identify the 1-3 things you are going to do very soon with what you have learned. Write out your goal and a quick action plan. Make sure your plan includes dates. If this was done during the workshop, great – all you have to do now is review it briefly.
2. The next day
a. Teach someone else the key concepts from the workshop. By sharing the main ideas with someone else you are helping them, and solidifying the learning in your own mind.
b. Review your Action Ideas. Again – 5-10 minutes of review is all that is required.
c. Add the “to-do” and action items from your action plan in your calendar.
3. Day 2.
a. Share your action plan with your Supervisor, coach or mentor. Use this person as a sounding board and a source of support and accountability for you.
b. Briefly review your notes.
4. Day 3.
Review your notes, adding any ideas or notes to them as appropriate. Make sure you are on track for the “to-do” items you added to your list.
5. Day 7.
Review your notes, adding any ideas or notes to them as appropriate. Check on your Action Plan too – are you on track with your plans?
6. Day 14.
Review your notes, adding any ideas or notes to them as appropriate. Make sure you are on track with your Action Plans.
7. Day 30.
Review your notes, adding any ideas or notes to them as appropriate. Finish your action items, and/or make sure they are on track.
While the time required to do this will vary based on the topic and length of the workshop, typically you can complete all of these steps (except completing the specific Action Planning items you committed to), in two hours or less.
This is such great news! Why? This two hour investment will be one of the best investments you will make in terms of improvement, growth, confidence and results. Beyond that, it is an investment that is completely in your control.
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