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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B1 Intermediate

I would attend to Leading small businesses with Cheng Wei. In Latin America entrepreneurs is a new way to do business because it reduces costs. Small business are totally different in compare to an enterprise. How to manage and how to lead is very important to the small business success.

I would like to attend to Managing change conference because I think that the companies have to be prepare to the change and being able to fit to the dinamic of the market.

I would like to attend the conference "Giving feedback" because is really important to handle skills about that and been ensure the message will be transmitted correctly to the team.

I'd like to know more details about the conference "Leading in uncertain times" with Omar Abboud, because I understand the it´s necessary to get deal with the imprevisive situations that this excepcional moment of our history, with the Cov-19 pandemy, place for companies and it strategies.

I would like to watch "Using storytelling in leadership communication" because I think that it is enjoy and necessary for make us creative for deal with many people in a company.

Developing creative thinking in your team- because if a team is creative and original, it will show to the world and everyone that the employees have good ideas and strategies for their company and that they don't copy ideas from other companies. This means that any team with these qualities is absolutely unique and special.

From my point of view, all of the conferences and discussion topics are useful for a good working team.Confidence in yourself as well as capability to work with your team, managing problems together makes the perfect team with a lot of success.

I would not attend any of the conferences because I don't believe they are useful. Full of clichees and spending time waste.