SENSEI VALUE FOR TIME CONFERENCES - our antidote to ‘Death by PowerPoint’

Sensei has helped many major corporate organisations to deliver a significant return on the time and effort invested in their conferences. Find out why one-way PowerPoint presentations should play NO part in your next annual conference...

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We are inviting you to spend a private working lunch session with us to explore innovative ways to solve the problems traditional conferences create - and all at no cost to your organisation*.

If you feel your last conference did not fit the bill and this sounds interesting to you, simply reply to info@senseiuke.com and put 'Working Lunch' in the subject line. We will then contact you to arrange a mutually convenient date. Alternatively just call us on +44 (0) 20 7917 1830. 

*We suggest that the venue should be at your premises. We will provide the lunch. 

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“I like company conferences, they are great habitual events where the really important things are said over cocktails and are never done” - Peter F Drucker, writer, business guru and ‘social ecologist’.

We tend to agree with this perspective and have built an outstanding reputation for helping our clients co-create and deliver memorable and effective conferences that deliver valuable outcomes. This is not just down to the fancy location or the wit and insights delivered by our keynote speakers - although both can help - but because we deliver substantial, tangible benefits that are appreciated both by the participants and our client organisations.

Are you getting more out of your conference than just a bill? 

All too often company conferences can cost the earth - quite literally if you measure the carbon footprint of many global organisations - and, as Peter Drucker so eloquently points out, results are really only generated when the corporate jargon stops and participants are released to talk freely, in their own time and in their own way. 

You don’t need us to tell you that your annual conference is a vital communication and motivational tool to engage your people, to champion your vision for the years ahead, to align teams in results-sharing conversations, to generate great ideas and to move forward on action plans.

You want your teams to be inspired by your vision. You want them looking forward to an exciting and fulfilling year ahead and not to the buffet lunch at next year’s conference. But fast-forward a month and all too often the results fall far short of expectations, with little remaining besides the bill.

Sensei’s Value For Time Conferences break the mould to help you achieve strategic business aims that make the investment in time and money worthwhile. Like all great journeys, your conference will have an air of anticipation and excitement beforehand, a clear roadmap to guide progress along the way, space for adventure and discovery built into the trip and a desired destination that inspires enthusiastic commitment to the organisation’s strategic intent.

Making you shine even brighter at your next annual conference and making the investment in time and money worthwhile.

A conference is a rare opportunity to engage your people in the organisation’s strategic journey and tap into their latent desire to be involved. Our Value For Time Conference concept is specifically designed to create an environment where organisational intent can be transformed by all the participants into big ideas and lasting change.

#1 Purpose. We help you set a clear mandate. Why are you organising this conference? What do you want to achieve from the investment of time and energy? Clarity, consensus and commitment from your executive team will ensure the event delivers the agreed outcomes.

#2 Design. We co-create the experience with you to change participants’ perceptions of their organisational role and prepare them for the journey ahead. We prime the key players to engage the head and the heart to maximise the vital role they play in the experience and make the best impression possible.

#3 Facilitation. We help you manage the process required to get you to your destination. From short skill-share sessions to keynote speeches with a difference, we enable authentic, action-orientated discussions to take place, leaving pure entertaining to the entertainers!

#4 Delivery. We work with you to ensure the ideas, energy and insights generated actually get embedded into your organisation and don’t die on the conference floor. Without this step any conference, no matter how well designed, executed or highly rated, is simply a ‘talking shop’ that will change little.

OUR EXPERIENCE

We have helped clients such as Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, DuPont, Danone and Firmenich to create conferences that are genuinely engaging and deliver ‘outcomes’ - not just talk. These outcomes can never be achieved through the traditional ‘transmission-heavy’ designs used by far too many organisations these days.

"I’m writing from Penang, Malaysia, after a Global Conference for a global personal care powerhouse. We helped design it, organize it, facilitate it and coach key leaders in engaging their people. It was in direct contrast to typical conferences which truly are elaborate time wasters. There are numerous problems with conventional conferences...", read the full blog entry made by Omar Khan, author of 'The Global Consultant - How to make seven figures across borders'

TESTIMONIAL

“Our leadership team had only been together for around 6 months and the global supply chain conference had lots of people from different countries coming together for the first time. I think the conference was a very important first step in building our supply chain community. We wanted to create a community where people could contribute, add, as well as take from the community; contribute, as well as be told what to do. So the conference was an important part of setting that scene, it set the tone for how we wanted that community to work in the future. At the end of the day we did the conference to achieve a result. We have very clear cost objectives and service objectives as an operations community. In order to achieve those, we have to cooperate. We have to cooperate across functions, across countries, across technical areas. We have had a very successful year and a lot of that can be traced back to our ability to effectively operate as an integrated whole.”
Bob Woodburn - Global Supply Chain Director, Danone Medical Division - read the DANONE case study