Planning Conferences

Most often we think of strategic planning as something that happens within a specific organization. Sometimes however, the same planning process is used to think strategically about a community, an industry, a geographical region, a profession  or other groupings that extend beyond the boundries of one organization.

Sequus uses the tools on this website to help conference organizers gather input from conference participants well in advance of the event. With these tools you can .......

• PLAN THE ENTIRE CONFERENCE INCLUDING ITS VENUE, LOCATION, AGENDA, GOALS, PROCESSES AND SO ON
  

• GATHER INPUT FROM PARTICIPANTS  PRIOR TO THE EVENT
  

• COLLECT DATA FROM NON-PARTICIPANTS SUCH AS  PARTICIPANT CLIENTS, STAFF, SUPPLIERS, BOARD MEMBERS, MANAGEMENT, FUNDERS  AND OTHER CRITICAL STAKEHOLDERS.
  

• CONDUCT A "VIRTUAL SWOT" FOR AN INDUSTRY
  

• EXPLORE ISSUES IN DEPTH WITH A PANEL OF INFORMED PERSONS PRIOR TO THE CONFERENCE
  

• TEST FOR CONSENSUS ON IMPORTANT ISSUES TO BRING TO A CONFERENCE
  

• REVIEW PROGRESS ON  PLANS MADE AT EARLIER CONFERENCES
  

• ASSESS OVERALL PERFORMANCE IN IMPLEMENTING  PLANS ARISING FROM PREVIOUS CONFERENCES
  

Click on any of the links above to see examples of instruments that could be adapted to your needs.

From a recent client..."On behalf of our directors and staff, I would like to express our sincere appreciation for the tremendous job you did in facilitating our ... conference.  You led the way in organizing the event to make optimum use of the time and the experience of the people present. You then went on to do a masterful job of crafting the recommendations to enable agreement and consensus, even on issues that were divisive. I am convinced that the sense of accomplishment people had upon leaving the meeting was largely due to your skill at achieving that consensus."

"The report you have prepared for us will be very useful in helping us to chart our course to develop the ...... industry in Manitoba. You have prepared a set of well-worded and clear recommendations to give us direction for action."

From a conference participant.. "I want to congratulate you on a very well managed and facilitated session on the ...issue.  Your skills at helping a room translate a lot of talk into concrete recommendations were very much appreciated.  Personally, the results of the session exceeded my most optimistic expectations.  Taking a group that has never discussed this topic before and having them move to supporting the concrete recommendations of the session was an impressive accomplishment"