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

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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 like to join the Conflict management session with Tracy Edwards. You asked why would I do that, I think because sometimes the conflicts lead to a huge problem with the team members and then the development and creativity of our business will stop and lose everything we worked for. So the person must learn how to manage a conflict and lead it.

Hello. I assume I will attend the "Leading in Uncertain Times" program with Ammar Aboud. Why Did I choose exactly this program? It's so simple, because when you are a leader of a small business you have to be confident in all your decisions and your confidence also affects your team.

First of all, I would like to attend the conference of Omar Abboud's Uncertain times. I want to learn How to tackle the uncertain suitation in our team and it will help me, to analysis the suitation. Additionally, I have to communicate with my team.I can able to sort out the suitation and bring the confidence to my team.It lead us into the success I believe.

Furthermore, I would like to attend Mariana Silva's conference. Creative thinking is vital and wonderful skill to learn in everyday life. When I working with my team, Creativity is able to connect us in a various forms of thinking in a different suitation to solve or to create something. It makes me to think out of box in a different perspective.

I would like attend the conference by Tracy Edwards because I think that exists a few persons that know management a conflict, we only ignore the problem and waiting that let him pass by, instead of finding a solution

Q: Which of the conference sessions would you attend? Why?

A: I would like to join Managing change with Akira Yoshida for below reason:

Being positive and patient will help you deal with change. When you are willing to change, you can learn to adapt to new environment, colleague, culture.
Facing with difficulty, challenge may make you feel disappointed, angry, disorientation, so if you are positive and calm down, you can handle and resolve them or in case of failure, you are still accept it calmly. After all, you still smile and move on.

i would like to attend leading in small business by cheng wei because i think that was the basic one and i want to learn from the core of management system. afterthat, i think i'm gonna attend the creative class to boost my creativity and exploring the ideas of the small business.

I would love to attend Developing Creative Thinking in your Team with Mariana Silva because creativity is essential to running a business and being an excellent manager, which will boost the success of any company. I'm also not very creative, so I'd attend and appreciate any conference or course that can help me to make my creativity thrive.

I think I will attend the conference Giving feedback with Amelia Novak, because sometimes I do not know how to give a feedback without beeing rude.

I would attend Tracy Edwards conference on Conflict Management, because I consider this topic very important for work teams. Many teams don't know how they can continue work when something goes wrong.

I will take part in the session “Giving Feedback” with Amelia Novak because I have found that I have a problem with giving negative feedback to others. Negative feedback can bring negative emotions, and negative emotions lead to uncomfortable feelings and reduced working quality