![]() ![]() Most conferences offer a wide variety of presentation formats. Use the proposal process to help define your special perspectives and insights. Your proposal readers (and your audience) will want to know how you are uniquely qualified to speak on the subject you are discussing. You might start by aligning your subject matter expertise with established interest groups. Where do you have subject matter expertise (through education or experience)? If you are a young professional, could you co-present with someone more advanced than you? Part of the excitement of a conference is the ability to connect with others who have similar interests and expertise in a related area. We all have special knowledge, abilities and talents as well as unique professional skills. This will help you begin to attach your work to the national “big picture”. Keep your eye on recent conference themes regionally and nationally. Step 3: Conference Theme – Related Topics?Ĭonferences are often organized by theme. If you are brave enough, ask others if they would be willing to share their proposals with you. Start by simply attending a regional conference and closely observe how good presentations are constructed (paying special attention to what feels especially interesting and creative). It can be very helpful to view previous conference proposals, abstracts, learning activities and visual presentations. What are others finding interesting, useful and currently relevant? What ideas, research or major thinkers do you see as being particularly important to advising or student affairs currently? Be sure you are picking a “fresh” but relevant topic and are adding something special and unique to the conversation. Some topics are very well worn (advisor burnout, for example). Try to add to, not simply duplicate what has been presented in the past. While you want to contribute to what’s trending you also want to offer a fresh perspective and insights. You can do this by picking up a journal or other professional publication, looking at a recent conference program, or talking with others who have published or presented recently. As you begin to think about presenting at a conference, start by getting a sense of what’s trending regionally and nationally. You are likely to learn as much as you teach if you approach the proposal process with thought and care.Ĭonferences are wonderful places to access new ideas, scholarship, and research. Conferences are learning platforms as well as opportunities for collaboration and networking. ![]() The following seven step process is designed to help you knock it out of the park on a first try. Great (and successful) conference proposals take both time and effort. Consultant for Advising and Abigail Garcia, Associate Director, Academics, Pre-College Trio Programs Standing ovations are also often given in a sporting context to reflect an outstanding individual performance.Elizabeth Wilcox, Sr. However, by tradition all ovations that occur before the speech begins, as opposed to those that interrupt it, are given in praise of the office itself, rather than the individual office-holder, and the president is never introduced by name. It is routine, rather than exceptional, for this address to be introduced, interrupted and followed by standing ovations, from both the president's own party and his political opponents. Examples include party conferences in many countries, where the speech of the party leader is rewarded with a "stage managed" standing ovation as a matter of course, and the State of the Union Address of the President of the United States (see ovations at 6:15 and 7:00 here on YouTube). Some audience members worldwide have observed that the standing ovation has come to be devalued, such as in the field of politics, in which on some occasions standing ovations may be given to political leaders as a matter of course, rather than as a special honour in unusual circumstances. ![]() Lazarus receiving a standing ovation from Russell Simmons ![]()
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