A conference programme

Read the programme for a management conference to practise and improve your reading skills.

Do the preparation task first. Then read the text and do the exercises.

Preparation

Reading text

Morning programme

9.00–9.30	Conference opening Dr Jon Martinez
9.30–10.45	Management styles with Helena Clark Consider the different management styles and how you can adapt yours to suit your team.	Giving feedback with Amelia Novak Explore the different ways to give feedback to maximise development.	Managing change with Akira Yoshida Help your employees deal with change and to see the positives change can bring.
10.45–11.15	Coffee break
11.15–12.30	Using storytelling in leadership communication with Antoine Martin Sometimes, the best way to communicate with your team is by telling stories. Find out how to do this in this workshop.	Leading small businesses with Cheng Wei How is leading small businesses different and how can leaders of small businesses bring success to their team?	Leading in uncertain times with Omar Abboud Uncertainty can affect the success of your team. Learn to bring confidence to your team in a time of uncertainty.

Afternoon programme

12.30–2.00	Lunch
2.00–3.15	Managing international projects with Alisa Petrov Consider how to ensure successful intercultural communication in your international teams.	Developing creative thinking in your team with Mariana Silva How can you get your team to think more creatively? Explore the different ideas that can help your team see things in a new way.	Conflict management with Tracy Edwards Conflict can create problems in your team, but managing conflict well can bring about development. Learn how to manage conflict in this workshop.
3.15–4.15	Group discussions
4.15–5.00	Conference closing Dr Grace Moloney

Task 1

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Task 2

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Discussion

Which of the conference sessions would you attend? Why?

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I would rather atend in the developing creative thinking in a team. Because of creativity is most vital factor in job prospects. Espesialy you work in a team. I amn't keen on majetment, however I work with the team. I wonder to know how we develop our creative thinking.

I would attend to the "managing change" session. Lot of employee work in their own routine and It's difficult to change their behaviour. They are attached to their way of working or their local office and so they are reticent to change any thing that could disturb them and they doesn't want to see any positive things around changement. I hope that this session could give me opportunity to learn some tools to adapt my communication and my project to apply changement as better as possible. Note: sometimes employee are in rigths to manifest against a changement, so i hope there are some tricks to listen correctly an employee ("how could we see if an employee talk about his privilege or a real issue linked to the changement ?")

Leading in uncertain times. Among all the programme, this is the most urgent and apt considering the challenges and opportunities that the pandemic crisis brought. I think not only the private sectors are experiencing uncertainties, but everyone should be concerned about the effect and the solution on this crisis globally. It should not be taken as a problem of one country since we don't live in an independent world. If a country was able to solve the problem but not the rest of the world, it should not be considered as solved. One remaining case unsolved in a country will still leave high probability of spreading it all over again globally.

"Giving feedback" with Amelia Novak is my favourite.

Being positive and patient help employees to adapt fast to the new changes and situation is the core issue for adaptation in business.

i would like attend managing change session and management conflict. Both of them are interesting session and usefull.

It was a good exercise

Very good exercise

I prefer to join Helena Clark's session because cope with varies managements styles will enrich our out come.

I would like to attend to Cheng Wei conference " leading small business" because I am going to establish a small business in my area and it could help me to learn many new things.