Session Preparation
Preparing for Your Session
Looking for tips and guidelines to get ready for your Learning Leadership Conference session? Check out these answers to some commonly-asked speaker questions:
What should I know about the audience for the Learning Leadership Conference?
The Learning Leadership Conference attendees represent learning leadership at all levels of their organizations. Attendees include learning, training, and education professionals from around the globe, all of whom are exploring proven practices that can be applied to modern learning strategies. Many attend the Learning Leadership Conference to meet and share ideas and experiences with their peers and learn best practices and strategies that have worked for others. Attendees tend to appreciate sessions that:
- Are conversational and collaborative
- Are built around the context of learning leadership
- Go beyond theory to focus on strategy and successful approaches
What do I need to do before building my session?
The description is critical. It’s one of the main ways that people decide which sessions to attend. You’ll want to make sure the session you create fully matches the details of the description we have posted, especially the takeaways (In this session, you will learn …).
Be sure to review your session description on the conference website/app. This provides a refresher on the talking points you’ve committed to; it’s also your opportunity to ensure that the description still matches your goals for the session.
Should I create additional resources?
While it’s not required, you might want to consider sharing your slide deck and creating practical resource materials for your audience.
This is a great way to enhance attendees’ experience and help them apply your content when they return to work. You can also share materials for attendees to use during the presentation.
Examples:
- Your slide deck
- A short summary of the key points from your presentation
- Checklists and/or action plans
- Job aids or tools
- A list of recommended websites, articles, books, media, and more on your topic
Notes:
- Your session presentation and supplemental materials should not include promotional material of any kind, including large company logos. We may send materials back to you for revision if we cannot remove these.
- They also may not include links or QR codes that ask attendees to provide personal contact information in order to gain access to the materials. We will remove these prior to posting session materials.
- We will add a cover page to all session materials and create a PDF, which we will link to your session in the event app.
I have additional questions. Who should I reach out to?
We want your session to be a success and will help you in any way we can. If you need any additional assistance getting ready for your talk, please contact the Learning Leadership Conference programming team at [email protected].