9:00 am - 10:00 am
Opening Keynote: Help Me Understand™ (The Power of an Idea Everyone Gets)
Speaker: Monica Wofford, CSP
In leadership, it's teams that gets things done, but few leaders really know how to create, maintain, and support a thriving team. Knowing how to get others to collaborate, communicate, and cooperate is where the best ideas happen and results start to rise. Help Me Understand™ will do just that by turning your audience on to the ways team members think. Leaders will learn to clarify their message. Bring teams together with those they lead and let’s get them to understand each other better so they can get more done together. Through the use of emotional intelligence and guidance on how to use it, Help Me Understand™ will reduce their stress and remove much of the office drama and mess. Leaders will become better coaches and employees will become more motivated with Help Me Understand™.
CMP Credit: 1 hour Human Resources
Breakout Sessions:
Meeting Planners 
Leadership 
Association Staff
10:15 am - 11:15 am
What are Your Attendees Trying to Tell You?
Speaker: Dave Wenhold, CAE, Kautter Wenhold Management Group
Learn what every body is saying to you and how to utilize those subtle signals to judge any situation. Whether it is in the elevator, the office, a boardroom or in a seminar, the unconscious signals that a person’s body sends out will allow you to better read them and better gauge your attendees. This fun and interactive session will show you how to make an impact with others though nonverbal communication.
Studies show that 93% of communication effectiveness is based upon nonverbal cues. What is your body telling others?
CMP Credit: 1 hour Stakeholder Management
Eliminate Conflict in the Office and Reduce Your Stress
Speaker: Monica Wofford, Contagious Companies
Monica Wofford offers a more in-depth discussion of creating effective teams by eliminating conflict in your office environment. Participants will learn:
• How others are more different than difficult
• How to stop taking anyone else’s behavior personally
• How to assess, address, and modify your own behavior
CMP Credit: 1 hour Stakeholder Management
Culture Shock - What Small Associations Can Learn From Tech Company Culture
Speaker: Mark Sedgley, MemberClicks
Technology companies dominate "Best Places to Work" lists. Their company cultures attract and keep top talent in highly competitive and often stressful fields by offering refreshing work environments and unique benefits. The success of their brand is rooted in the way they approach that culture.
Small associations face some of the same challenges that smaller technology companies face - they're short on time and resources and trying to do more with less. By incorporating some of the same cultural attitudes and practices that tech companies embrace, small associations can greatly increase staff and member engagement. Learn the elements that make up an exceptional culture and how they can be applied to transform any organization.
Takeaways:
- Learn what steps you can take to immediately transform your association's culture
- See how a great culture doesn't have to cost more to provide more
- Learn what questions to ask your staff and your members to increase engagement
11:20 am -1:20 pm - Trade Show Lunch
1:30 pm -2:30 pm
Move Their Bodies, Move Their Minds - An “Exercise” in Creative Brainstorming
Speaker: Tara Liaschenko, CMM, The Link Event Professionals
How do you improve your attendees productivity, creativity and loyalty to your meeting? This physically interactive session takes the attendee on a journey of creative and interactive brainstorming you can learn to apply to your conference or meeting sessions. Learn real-world applicable examples of corporations that design creative cultures in an effort to increase productivity, creativity and loyalty. Realize the value in using physical movement as a means to elicit creative thought, retention and brainstorming. Learn how to use the conference and meeting setting as a way to experience this concept. Rather than have a speaker or panel, the audience becomes the content driver through the use of brainstorming during “netwalking” and then debriefs the best of the ideas and concepts. Let us take you on a creative brainstorming journey! (Disclaimer- this session is physical)
Takeaways:
- Learn real world applicable examples of corporations that design creative environments and how to apply that to your meetings and conferences.
- Realize how to incorporate physical activity in to your meeting or conference with applicable knowledge as the end result.
- Walk away with a creative brainstorming session that you can bring directly to your meeting or conference.Content Categories – Meeting Design, Program Design, Experiential Learning Lab,
- Creative/Innovative Thinking (based on each conference)
CMP Credit: 1 hour Meeting or Event Design
The New Frontier: What You Need to Know About the DOL’s New Overtime Rules and Independent Contractor Guidance
Speaker: Michael Spellman, Sniffen and Spellman, P.A.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division had a busy summer, issuing new proposed regulations that would dramatically narrow the scope of the Executive, Administrative and Professional exemptions (the "white collar" exemptions") to federal overtime rules, and a new Administrator Interpretation on independent contractors that may expand which workers are employees protected by the Fair Labor Standards Act. In this seminar, Michael Spellman, an attorney who specializes in representing management in labor and employment matters, will explain the proposed rules and review the implications of the new interpretation.
CMP Credit: 1 hour Human Resources
Take Flight (Ignite) Session
Seven different association professionals will share with you their tools and tips for success in the industry—but they each have only six minutes to do so! Join us for this highly interactive and engaging session that will cover everything from the benefits of obtaining certifications to branding and technology. Speakers include:
Ben Graybar, Commercial Banker, Hancock Bank– Cyber Security
Lisa Chamberlain, CMP; National Sales Manager, Visit Tampa Bay – CVB Offerings
Cathi Lundgren, CAE; Senior Account Executive, HPN Global – Meeting Planner Ethics
Taproot Creative – Audience Targeting
Frank Rudd, CAE, CMP, President & CEO, FSAE
Jessica Lowe-Minor, Executive Director, Institute for Nonprofit Innovation and Excellence
3:00 - 4:00 pm
How Gamification is Improving Your Meeting Experience
Speaker: Wendy Phillips, Gather Digital
Learn how to use gamification, check-ins and live polling to encourage behavior and engage attendees at your events. Gamification can assist with attendee networking and help you gain valuable insights for your members and the organization. In this session attendees will learn:
- Best practices for implementing badge games at events
- The power of using an app to allow attendees to earn points, including continuing education credit points, at an event
- How to design interactive in-agenda session and conference-wide polls to break the ice, get people talking, take the pulse of participants and tap the collective wisdom of the group. Participation in the polls can be tied to earning badges!
- Effective use of metrics and reports to interpret the learnings from attendees’ participation in the game, earning points and polls
CMP Credit: 1 hour Marketing
Is Your Organization a Red Ocean or Blue Ocean?
Speaker: Cheval Breggins, FL Psychological Assn
How does your association define the market space for opportunity and prospective members? Your strategies could be limiting your possibilities without you even realizing it. Red Oceans and Blue Oceans are different mindsets that affect your success - no matter which ocean you're swimming in. This session will help attendees understand the difference and why it matters.
- Discover the difference between a Red Ocean and Blue Ocean organization
- Self-identify if their organization is a Red or Blue Ocean
- Learn the strategy and management philosophy for a Red Ocean and Blue Ocean organization
CMP Credit: 1 hour Strategic Planning
What is Your Uber: Finding Your Future Association Disruption
Speaker: Tom Morrison, Metal Treating Institute
This energetic and informative session will provide the keys you need to research and determine what future disruption is coming your members' way. Technology is the #1 disrupter, but it maybe some other form of disruption. Over the last 5 years, disruption has transformed the taxi, real estate, publishing and music industries putting the association and their members at risk for competing. The question is… Do you know what may be lurking to create havoc in your industry? Tom Morrison will share various forms of disruptions that could wreak havoc in various industries and the associations that serve to them. Learn what your association needs to do to embrace these shifts.
CMP Credit: 1 hour Strategic Planning