AGENDA
Friday
3:00pm – Registration
4:00pm–6:00pm Tradeshow and Networking
Core competency: Leadership
6:30pm – 9:30pm Reception sponsored by Omni Corpus Christi Hotel
Saturday
8:00am–Registration
8:30am Breakfast & Raffle Opens - sponsored by Omni Corpus Christi Hotel
9:00am Welcome – President
9:15amOpening Session
KeynoteMaribel Garcia Valls, MPH, ACC
Stress & Management: Mind Your Own Busy-ness with Yoga and Meditation
Learn the benefits of a regular meditation practice to reduce stress and burn-out. During the session, participants are introduced to meditation, journaling, and habit-development techniques that are accessible at and away from the workplace.
Core competency: Leadership
10:30am – 12:00pm
Scavenger Hunt-more to come
12:15pm–1:30pm
Keynote & Lunch - sponsored by Omni Corpus Christi Hotel
Dr. Robert Lemon
Now is Your Time - Balancing Work, Life and Education
The demand on your time has never been greater. Working productively, making good decisions, and maintaining cooperative relationships with others enable you to stay energized and focused. Understand the importance of honoring your own time. Visualize your future, and make it happen now. Prioritize and choose your activities, and establish boundaries. Manage multiple priorities and focus on the important and valid. Recognize key components of effective goal setting through time management. Plan your way to success; Create clearly defined goals; recognize the key components of goal setting. Your confidence in time management will sky rocket. You will find yourself experiencing fewer struggles and stress immediately.
Core competency: Education & Programming
1:45pm – 2:45pmBREAKOUTS
Newest Social Media Trends for Events-Veronica Morales and Julia Miller
Stories with Facebook and Instagram, Frames, and chatbots are trending. Social Media trends change all the time, but staying current and active is what keeps your event current.
Core competency: Technology
1:45pm – 2:45pm BREAKOUTS (cont.)
Effective Delegation-Terri Stafford
Delegation is a key skill for all leaders, and necessary for any person wanting to get ahead. If you ever feel stressed and overwhelmed because the demands are too high, then it’s time to sharpen those delegation skills. It is not always easy for highly driven people to give up the reins, but it’s critical for the success of the organization. If your struggling and don’t know where to start, then this is your session, participants will learn to delegate, when to delegate, and how to effectively delegate.
Core competency: Leadership Skills
Active Shooter Awareness-Curtis Purintun
In a study done from 2002 to 2015 an average of 6.4 incidents occurred in the first 7 years studied, and an average of 16.4 occurred in the last 7 years. 70.0% of the incidents occurred in either a commerce/business or educational environment. I’m going to make sure you know what to do in this type of growing crisis.
Core Competency: Education, Programming
2:45pm – 3:00pm Break - sponsored by Omni Corpus Christi Hotel
3:00pm – 4:00pm BREAKOUTS
The Unconventional CVB Experience: A secret weapon for planners with restricted resources –
Mia Monroe, CSEP, CGMP, CMP
The modern meeting and event planner is constantly dealing with the challenge of producing high-impact, cost-effective events with limited time and resources. Far too often the term “less is more” has turned to “do more with less”, which creates more stress for the planner and can at times, compromise the integrity of the event, if one isn’t careful. Regardless of how crafty and creative one gets, planners always need a surefire resource in their toolkit to execute the impossible…and live to tell about it! Enter the convention and visitor’s bureau.
Core Competency: Facilities and Services
TEAM – Together Everyone Achieves More (The Power of Diversity)-Dr. Robert Lemon
This presentation encourages diversity and leadership skills, self-esteem and integrity. Discover ways to connect with others, learn tips for capitalizing on the talents of a diverse team. Recognize and respect those whose skills are
strong enough to take the team where they need to go to achieve higher levels of success. Your style of coaching has the power to enhance relationships, open lines of communication, and improve credibility with others. Participants will
learn how to effectively work with unresponsive or difficult team members. Simply changing one’s approach can affect their success with others. Collaboration, cooperation, and coaching brings quality, excellence, and integrity in the workplace.
Core competency: Leadership
4:30pm Raffle salesClose
Dinner on Your Own
Sunday
9:00am Brunch sponsored by Omni Corpus Christi Hotel
10:15am Closing Keynote
Ballet to Bullets-Christopher Fairbanks
The goal of the presentation is to encourage a positive change in our communities and workforce. This unique presentation highlights the skills needed for individuals to become leaders with integrity and to be the change that “I” (as in you) want to see in the world. These skills include the importance of listening and building relationships with fellow team members and with others who you interact with on a frequent basis. You will learn how to motivate yourself and others along the way. Together, we will discover ways to unite with others while making the most of individual talents.
Core competency: Leadership
11:15am Closing Ceremonies
12:00pm Conference Concludes