Oade Associates writes and enacts custom-made scenarios for inclusion in conference agendas and when working with client audiences.
This innovative way of handling key conference issues will enable your audience to observe each scenario in turn, discuss the issues in small groups, and feed back comments and suggested ways forward to the conference hosts.
Your conference scenarios could illustrate a wide range of themes. Examples of scenarios from our recent projects include:
- Illustrating how the same meeting can be handled in a bullying manner, an aggressive but not bullying manner and in a non-bullying manner.
- How mistakes made by internal supplier groups ultimately affect customers.
- How to handle sexist comments and bullying behaviour at work.
- How to respond effectively to harrassing and intimidating clients.
- Managing the boundaries between personal and professional relationships at work.
- Handling team members whose performance is repeatedly below standard.
- Responding effectively to customer complaints at the time they are verbalised.
Benefits of Incorporating Scenarios Into Your Conference
The benefits of working this way are that your conference audience members can discuss the themes in the scenarios at round tables and:
- Share experiences of how they currently handle the issues.
- Learn from one another.
- Identify workable tactics and strategies for use the next time they deal with similar circumstances.
- Feed back their views on the issues under discussion to the conference hosts.
- Participate in an effective, novel interactive session.