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Visit the Mile High City, networking, learning & a $25 discount
January 7th, 2011 | 
Author: Where will you be April 12-15, 2011?
If you are an internal or external facilitator, or if you are just looking for ways to improve your facilitation skills, you will not want to miss the 2011 North American Conference of the International Association of Facilitators in Denver! Register now and review the program at www.IAFNA.org and use the promotional code amazing (lower case) to receive the $25 discount.
Here is your opportunity to experience leading facilitators sharing their best practices across a wide spectrum of hard and soft skills and topics. These sessions are designed to give you proven strategies that you can use right away.
Topics include:
• The 5 keys to facilitation mastery
• Tools for creating and nourishing a living strategic plan
• When clients go bad: a roundtable
• Better results faster using visual facilitation methods
• Consensus-oriented decision-making
• Great tools make great teams
• Designing an elegant process flow
• Facilitating tangible vision through business process improvement
• Creativity tools for team facilitation
• How institutional power makes us clueless: becoming an inclusive facilitator through a practice of self transformation
• Facilitation tools for collaborative projects
In between these power-packed sessions are plenty of times for networking and holding one-on-one conversations with other facilitators with interests similar to yours.
And you won’t want to miss the opening plenary session facilitated by one of the leaders in the industry in a highly engaging, high energy and thought provoking breakdown of “The Anatomy of a Facilitation: Bringing Top Education Leaders to Consensus.”
Sign up now at www.iafna.org. Use our promo code amazing to get an additional $25 discount. This will also let the IAF know that you heard about the conference through us.
I’m looking forward to a great conference. See you in Denver!
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Tags: clients, Denver, faciliators, Facilitation tools, IAF, learning & networking, networking, process flow, process improvement, tools, www.iafna.org | 
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My law of attraction networking technique
I’ve had an abundance of networking opportunities this year which I’m very grateful for. Even though I am an extrovert (no matter what behavior style tool is used to identify me–I am what I am) and I find it easy to talk to people, connecting to new, interesting people is always a challenge.
This year I’ve taken a new tact to networking. I find an empty table near the center of the action, choose a seat facing the room, make myself comfortable and open my energy to be welcoming, receptive and filled with positive thoughts of attracting the people I need to encounter during that event.
The results have been amazing, I have connected with the most interesting people. Many of whom I would not have connected with otherwise. They arrive alone or in small groups and within moments the entire table is filled with warmth, comraderie and instantaneous connections. Sometimes the connections are formed between others and the environment of the table seemed to make that possibility happen for them. It creates such an interesting phenomenon to watch and enjoy.
I’ve connected with new clients, new friends, new colleagues and meet business idols I’ve only known virtually all these years. I found many cases where the degrees of separation are just one or two people away.
What’s your favorite in person networking technique?
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Tags: behavior style tool, Comraderie, connections, events, gratitude, networking, social media |
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