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Conference Moderator Or Link Presenter - The Difference Explained!
In the live events industry the terms "Moderator", "Facilitator" and "Presenter" tend to be used interchangeably by clients, speaker's bureaus, agents as well as some conference production companies. These days, many presenters and celebrities "claim" to be a conference "moderator" or a "facilitator". But are they? And does it matter? The difference between the two can have a profound impact on whether you can meet your event objectives and expectations...
🇬🇧 Strategy Session: What To Look For When Hiring A Professional Speaker
How do you know if the speaker fits? How do you avoid embarrassing mismatches?
🇩🇪 Finding Facilitators That Fit!
The aim of this guide is to prepare you for discussions with a bureau, and to get you thinking about all the factors that affect your Facilitator choice.
🇩🇪 Value Talk: Getting The Most Out Of Your Speaker
Valuable insights on using your speaker to maximise the success of your event
🇩🇪 The Neutral Zone Or The Swamp?
Facilitators are often faced with change issues. Sometimes we are brought in to help with change programs. Sometimes the solutions that workshop participants come up with require little or big changes. And sometimes we have to face change going on within the group as we facilitate their meetings.
🇺🇸 Facilitation For High-Performance Teams
Twenty years ago, it was estimated that American businesses held a million meetings a year. Today, collaborative work is becoming even more important to achieving the innovation and performance that is needed simply to survive, much less thrive. Business Week has called teams "the essential building block of the organization of the future." In this environment, meetings are playing an even bigger role in organizations of all types...
🇺🇸 Facilitation 101
While volumes have been written and graduate degrees offered in facilitation, the basic duties of a facilitator are to make sure everyone is working on the same challenge with the same approach, make sure everyone participates and protect participants from verbal abuse, and remain neutral and establish trust. This paper, and this session, will provide the rudiments of doing this in a variety of groups and settings, hopefully providing a foundation on which more advanced facilitation learning and skills can be built.
🇺🇸 Being Your Own Best Intervention
This informal, participative session explores the ways in which who you are impacts your effectiveness as a facilitator. It combines an overview of basic material with participative discussions and experiential exercises to provide you with an opportunity to look at the impact you have on the groups you work with.
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