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Fall 2007 Professional Forum
Top-10 Professional Development Take Home Values
Themed The Right Balance of Labor, Location and Logistics, the Fall 2007 IAMC Professional Forum is designed to offer attendees timely, practical take-away information and best practices that can be implemented immediately:
- A study of the significant structural changes that are underway including globalization, technology, demographics and the labor pool.
- The world economy — from the U.S. current account deficit to the decline in the US personal savings rate and more — as examined by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President & CEO William Poole.
- Winning the talent wars: Practical strategies for attracting and retaining quality white-collar and blue-collar labor.
- How and why the workplace and the work force are changing.
- Critical human capital management issues facing organizations today.
- Property auctions as a means to dispose of surplus corporate real estate.
- Changing management strategies — from portfolio management to mergers & acquisitions — as globalization evolves and corporate expansion extends into offshore markets.
- Best practices in employee recruitment, including forming partnerships with academia to address the skilled worker shortage issue.
- How to use Conscious Communication® to successfully transform behaviors like whining, negativity, attacks, tantrums, know-it-alls, think-they-know-it-alls, sniping and more.
- What is now state-of-the-art in new logistics facilities and how specific areas are putting this key infrastructure in place, from the air to rail and intermodal fields.
Top-10 Reasons to Network at IAMC Professional Forums
| New at the St. Louis Professional Forum - "Talk or Text" |
| The Fall 2007 IAMC Professional Forum will offer attendees a new way to participate in the education programs. For selected sessions, you will be able to text questions to the presenters via your cell phone or PDA. This can be done at any time during the conference, including during the programs. The presenters will work the questions in or, if they cannot be answered during the program, provide a response in the next IAMC Dispatch Newsletter.
This flexible participation opportunity will apply to the Tuesday afternoon Get Some Help! discussions and the Wednesday General Session, which will feature an extra 20-minute Q&A segment facilitated by guest speaker and visionary Ed Barlow.
Hand-held or aisle microphones will be available in both sessions, but you may choose to communicate from the privacy of your mobile telephone or PDA. For your texting convenience, IAMC will provide a unique text mailbox for each of the two programs.
Give it a try in St Louis. Participate via "talk or text"!
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IAMC networking events are unique in the industry. In addition to hosting them at locations of note, IAMC works to ensure that the tone of the events is collegial and not "sales focused." The proven value of IAMC networking events keeps attendees returning year after year, as they know they will:
- Benefit from intimate receptions and meaningful face-to-face interaction.
- Network in a collegial, non-sales-focused environment.
- Visit some of the best venues the host city has to offer, including in St. Louis: The Gateway Arch, the City Museum and the Missouri Botanical Gardens.
- Share their experiences with IAMC members and benefit from their fellow IAMC members' experiences.
- Build stronger relationships with clients and potential clients.
- Enjoy top-quality catering and refreshments.
- Have the opportunity to meet and network with every other attendee.
- Carry on meaningful dialogue with fellow IAMC members across more than 10 networking-focused events, from evening receptions to session breaks and from breakfasts to a golf outing.
- Be able to customize their personal guest's experience by taking advantage of IAMC's new three-tiered program.
- Build ongoing relationships with top corporate real estate executives from companies such as Anheuser-Busch Companies, The Linde Group and Weyerhaeuser Company.
Please invite your Personal Guests to join us on Monday, October 8, at 8 a.m., in the Personal Guest Lounge for refreshments and a special presentation. Matt Brinkmann from the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission and Dianetta McIntyre, Hyatt Regency Concierge, will give an overview of things to see and do in St. Louis. Materials will also be available including visitor guides and maps of the city.
For more information about the Personal Guest Program, including IAMC's new three-tiered options, please click here.
The deadline to RSVP for the Women's Networking Event is September 10. If you have not yet RSVPed, please e-mail angel.fortenberry@iamc.org.
Click here to review IAMC's Program Policies, including badge requirements and private events.
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