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I hope you're well! A Little Elf is truly inpired! I've just returned from our annual Professional Organising conference in Brisbane. It was two and a half information packed days with many Professional Organisers from Australia, NZ, Japan, Malaysia, and America.
I was one of the expert panelists answering questions about how to be a Professional Organiser, called Ask the Organiser, along with two other seasoned professionals. The conference was a great success and I am looking forward to spreading my knowledge about organising!
Best wishes for continued success and a clear focus on your goals!
We look forward to continued contact with you and the opportunity to assist you with your organising projects! Please enjoy the newsletter and send any ideas and questions you have. Happy Organising!
Karen Koedding
A Little Elf
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Organising for a Conference
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Whilst it's fresh on the brain, let's talk about organising your vast amount of paperwork accumulated at your annual conference.
Here's some tips...
1. Plan some goals for the conference before you go, people to meet, things to learn, plans to develop. Review your goals list at least twice a day during the conference.
2. Go through the conference program during the conference and pull out the seminar sections that you would look back at again in the future...but be realistic and honest...only take what you will really look at again.
3. Keep what you need to prove for your continuing education requirements for your license or certification, staple together and put in a file.
4. During the conference write notes and action items in your notebook, not in the conference handouts. When you get back to work, re-write them into your task list or on pages to put in your research files.
5. Bring postcards to the conference. Each night address them to your new contacts, and write a brief note, and leave them with Reception to post for you.
6. Bring your own food to stay on your eating/fitness plan...bring oats for breakfast, fruit, small snacks. Some hotels don't have tea in the room. When I went to my NAPO conference in Florida they didn't have fruit! Florida - no fruit?!
7. Dump your show bag in your room as soon as possible, go through and recycle anything you are not interested in...don't bring it home if you are not interested.
8. Bring your own day bag...less chance of someone grabbing your bag by accident. Write your name in your program book. Bring some plastic folders to file things as you go.
9. Plan a full day or two after the conference for acting on all that you learned.
10. Input those new contacts into your database right away.
Remember to bring your business cards! Hope your conference is successful!
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