It is the Year of Innovation at the University of Wisconsin and I’m honored and excited to help my alma mater kick off the year at their Innovation U launch event. Hear from Chancellor David Ward first and then I’ll take it from there with a highly interactive program held at the Wisconsin Institutes for …
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This advice holds true for both the speaker and the conference organizer advising the speakers on their presentations. A killer presentation is like a killer product. It takes some time to develop and involves many prototypes and iterations. If the presenter is giving their speech or facilitating their program for the first time, it will …
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Conferences for leadership educators have been growing the past 10 years . There is ILA, NLS, LEI, and ALE. The 2011 ALE conference is happening in Denver July 10-13. Here is some of the pertinent information for leadership educators from the ALE website. The Association of Leadership Educators is proud to invite you to the …
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The 2010 Leadership Educators Institute will be held in December in Tampa, FL. Visit this NASPA webpage for more information. NASPA’s Stated Overview of the Institute: Leadership education of college and university students is an important and ongoing process within higher education institutions. Student affairs professionals play an essential role in coordinating, shaping, and evaluating this …
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Tools & Techniques for Facilitating Group Discussion & Activities This session will introduce tools and techniques for facilitating group discussion and activities. Participants will engage in different types of facilitation and discussion and identify the challenges that they expect to face. Participants and the facilitator will generate ideas for how to achieve the desired group …
Teambuilding Event Desired Outcomes: Help participants get to know as many fellow participants as deeply as possible in a condensed time frame. Move towards a more collaborative culture of teamwork for the dual purposes of greater effectiveness and satisfaction. Format: Learn the value of teamwork and group development by doing it together with activities in …
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Creating & Communicating Concepts that Stick! How do you generate a number of ideas and develop a great concept? You may have generated a great concept but then how do you communicate it so that it sticks? How do you show the story so people can understand it and will collaborate with you as you …
The role of brainstorming in sustaining an organizational culture of innovation How can brainstorming in individuals and groups be catalyzed and sustained in an organization so that it contributes positively to the culture of innovation the organization is seeking? + Implementing ongoing brainstorming initiatives + Launching brainstorming events + Assessing and engaging employees Program Innovation …
Facilitating brainstorming with groups Enable your team of brainstormers to generate hundreds of ideas per hour and zero in on the best concepts to develop further. Learn how to bring the best team of thinkers to the table. + How to prepare for the brainstorming session + How to stimulate new ideas + How to …
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Individual techniques and tools for brainstorming Break out of ruts, generate more ideas, or think in new directions with ideation tools and techniques for individual brainstormers. + Applying individual idea generating tools & techniques + Facilitating group idea generating tools & techniques + Training brainstormers in using thinking tools Program Innovation is a topic area …
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