Conference Speakers and Where to Find Them

2007-03-08 10:33:40

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Important Roles of Conference Speakers

From time to time, you find the need to organize a face-to-face meeting or audio conference call for your company. The success of your company's training or business conference is mainly dependent upon the personnel that you hire as your conference speakers.

Conference speakers have the skill to conduct or facilitate the training process. Although most of them utilize their own materials and equipment, it is mainly their skill in motivating and keeping the attention of the audience that can make or break the learning process.

What is a Conference Speaker?

Conference speakers must have first-hand experience about their topics and are the experts in their fields. If you want to have a seminar on stress management, for instance, you should hire someone who has extensive experience in industrial psychology or family counseling.

Furthermore, you need to get a conference speaker who has had quite a number of speaking engagements and is well-seasoned in handling not only the basic contents of his topic but also the issues or problems that may arise during the training process. He should anticipate which parts of his lecture may be more tedious to comprehend, and therefore have a well-planned set of strategies in handling the sessions. He makes his materials interesting as well as challenging for his audience.

Competent speakers also have excellent time management, so that the content and training tools can be utilized within a specific time frame. They keep a well-balanced program to accommodate all types of attendees, and leave enough room for questions and clarification.

Where to Find the Right Conference Speaker

Choosing the right conference speaker depends a lot on the topic you want to cover. You may want to tap your own human resources or benefits department to handle such matters as health insurance options or labor policies. However, you need to hire outsiders if you cannot find anyone in your organization to handle the job.

More experienced and better-known conference speakers usually have their own websites or mailing address and contact numbers. There are also many organizations that can help you in contacting and arranging for a competent speaker. Most are accessible online, and even give you the topics and credentials of the conference speakers.

Aside from choosing the speaker, you must also consider other factors such as the length of the conference, the speaker's availabilities, and your company's budget.

It will also be best to start looking for the speaker a few months before the actual conference, and to have several alternative sources.


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