CEOnly® Summit: Future Focus Now

Time

Program

Curt Steinhorst

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The Great Resignation: How Can Your Organization Prevent the Exodus?
1-1:45 p.m.
The “Great Resignation” is real. Tens of millions of employees have or plan on quitting their current jobs for more money and more flexibility—for the ultimate goal of more happiness.

Employees have redefined what it means to have a "good job." Are you meeting their expectations?

The pandemic exposed many of the problems of our pre-pandemic workplace, but it also taught employees valuable lessons about how they work best—and convinced them not to settle for less. That’s why recovering from the pandemic by attempting to install “the old normal” is a reflexive leadership mistake. Does your organization have a plan to stop the bleeding before it starts?

Join this session to uncover the various forces at play that impact organizational morale like generations, technology, office spaces, and culture. Leaders will come away with best practices that not only help keep employees from leaving but also unlock their motivation and true potential, such as:

• Building trust, unity, and buy-in with a dispersed workforce and “return to work” practices
• Identifying the most common and demoralizing threats to retention, productivity, and engagement
• Navigating the varying and conflicting hybrid work preferences based on employee generation, experience, tenure, role, background, and personality

Break
1:45-2 p.m.

Sherrif Karamat, CAE
President & CEO, PCMA

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Promises and Challenges of a Post-COVID World: What is the New Value Proposition for Events?
2-2:45 p.m.
Value and relevance have been a continuous focus for Associations and the COVID-19 pandemic has put a laser focus on the value that has served as a wake-up call for everyone, every industry. It changed the way audiences engage with Associations and business events and has challenged traditional value propositions. In this conversation with Sherrif Karamat, he will share his insights about the need to be agile as we uncover how society has changed and how Associations and their leaders must evolve to maintain relevancy.  

You will walk away from this session with:

• Ways to adapt to our audience’s reshaped worldview and perspective on business events in a post-Covid era
• How to truly put the participant at the center of every business event
• How to lead your team, Board of Directors and committees in discussion strategies around these four important pillars:
  • Content
  • Commerce
  • Community
  • Experience 

Facilitators

Sue Pine, FASAE, CAE

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Hannes Combest, FASAE, CAE

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Leadership Competency of Foresight-Preparing Your Association for the Future
2:45-4 p.m.
The aftermath of the pandemic has association leaders more acutely aware of the impact external forces have on their members and association. While futures-thinking and the practice of foresight may not have been incorporated into association discussions in the past, volunteer leaders are now more open to exploring current trends that may drive change in their organization.

• How might the drivers of change affect my association’s vision?
• How will these drivers potentially impact our business model and members’ needs
• How can I best prepare my team and Board to respond?