When you come to an event, you’re tasked with the job of justifying the investment, and a big part of that is bringing back tangible learnings to your management and/or your team.
That got our team thinking:
- How do you stay organized?
- How do you take notes in sessions and remember the key ideas the speaker shared?
- How do large groups from the same company come back with notes with some semblance of consistency, especially if you’re collectively trying to hit as many sessions as possible?
- How do you communicate that “ah ha” moment back to your team – and convey exactly what you wanted to say after traveling home?
I asked the CMI team how they work when they attend conferences and events – either now or in the past – and the methods were certainly mixed.
- Some have a specific way of note taking – whether on their computer or with good ol’ pen and paper.
- Some work straight into Powerpoint so the deck is being created as you go along
- Some just listen, some tweet, some read and favorite others’ tweets so they don’t have to engage.
One of our teammates summed it up well: “People always have their own systems. But, regardless of the format, having an event give us a template of some sort is a good reminder of what you want to walk out of the session with.”
Here were a few others that I could relate to, and that made me chuckle. (They’re funny because they’re true!)
“Every time I take paper notes they get lost. If I was traveling to an event, I think a digital format of some sort would be a must.”
“If a team is dividing…
