Timothy Hyde - Creating Fresh Ideas Faster

Trade Shows - Play Fair?

Another interesting discussion on Trade Shows.

What's your real reason for taking part?

http://tinyurl.com/yl74zye

Conference MC Feedback

Just received this feedback from my client and delegates from the Future Energy Conference I was MC at in Hobart.

Dear Timothy

We would like to formally thank you for facilitating the smooth running of our Conference recently.

From the perspective of the Conference Coordinators you were flexible, responsive, professional and greatly assisted the smooth running of the Conference.

Your style and wry humour was appreciated by the Delegates and the formal feedback we have recieved has indicated a resounding "excellent" in the quality stakes.

Association Conferences - Outlook for 2010

As a lot of my work is as an MC or Keynote presenter to the Association market, I found the following survey very interesting.


After a couple of hard years the outlook is a bit more confident  

http://tinyurl.com/yfmtocr

Corporate MC - Tips on Pronouncing Names

One of the challenges every MC faces is the correct pronunciation of peoples names.

And with the global village we live in, increasing these names are becoming more and more exotic.

Two great resources were shared with me during the week.

http://www.pronouncenames.com/

http://www.howtosaythatname.com/

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I shared these with my MC Tips List during the week.
If you would like more tips like these or to access other
great MC Resources Visit

http://www.timothyhyde.com/mcresources.html

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Corporate MC - Feedback

Received some great feedback from my recent Corporate MC engagement at Crown Casino Melbourne.

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Timothy was absolutely fantastic, just the right mix for our type of industry and as one person said, "not over the top like a lot of MCs". He was entertaining but also very professional. Our guests responded well to his opening address. I asked the Committee to respond and these are the responses I received.

“I and my guests thought he was excellent, a real pro! I found how he seemed to relate to our industry extraordinary. He was very well prepared, obviously took in his brief well and introduced the main speakers with aplomb.”

“Excellent. Timothy was very entertaining as an MC and complimented our efforts to make a very enjoyable and relaxed night.”

“I think he did an excellent job, he made the night go well, contributed to the introductions and read his notes well, to me he was another positive about the evening and I wouldn’t have any problems with him doing another night in the future, he came across as very professional.”

“I think he worked the room very well and it shows that when you have a professional MC it really is worth it. Some humour, his very professional delivery and “that jacket” seemed to go down well with the audience. I’d be happy to use him if I needed an MC.”

 

Feedback

I did a big keynote presentation two weeks ago.

I thought it went well. The audience laughed in all the right places, took part in all the exercises and responded well with their applause at the end.

But I had doubts if the client actually liked it. They had been there the whole time watching, but very little feedback, stated or unspoken was forthcoming. I followed up with a thank you note a couple of days after and received a nice comment, but again brief. Oh well I thought, win some lose some.

So imagine my surprise yesterday, when the Speaker Bureau rings to tell me the client absolutely LOVED me and wants me back to MC the whole conference next year.

Perhaps they had to wait to read the evaluation forms.

Corporate Xmas Party Sydney 2009

November and December is always a busy time for me with End of Year Party's, Awards Nights, Gala Dinners.

Coming up in the next few weeks I have engagements for Panasonic, Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation and ARICA (Australian Radio Communications Industry Association.)

Assignments include acting as MC for the events and/or performing my Mind Magic Show.These bookings are in both Sydney and Melbourne.

While most of these have been booked for months and we've had planning meetings / phone briefings, I'm still getting calls for assignments just a week away!

Some people are leaving things to the last minute. However there are still quite a few prime dates available on our calendar, so happy to help out if we can. Luncheon dates especially!

Phone the office on 02 4758 8961 or ask your local Speaker Bureau to contact us.

http://www.TimothyHyde.com

http://www.MentalistAustralia.com

Brilliant guide to being a Corporate MC!

Extreamly pleased to see that the Peter Miller and Ron Tacchi book UP FRONT IN CONTROL is available again!

I get asked all the time about what is the very best guide to being a Corporate MC and this is it. Peter must have found another few boxes so be quick and check out the special bundle deal.  DETAILS HERE

Fantastic Blog for Meeting Planners.

Big thanks to my colleague Marcel Oudejans over in Cape Town for sharing this link to a great resource.

http://www.eventmanagerblog.com/

Meeting Planners & PCO Ideas - Part 6

Continuing our series of Extracts from our "White Ideas Paper"

Seven Successful Strategies
to make your next Conference Job easier

 

An Ideas Paper for - Professional Conference Organisers
Meeting Planners, Association Executives, Conference Committees

Idea Generation!

Another approach that I have offered to some of my clients in the past is a short Facilitated Brainstorming Session aimed specifically at developing ideas for a Conference.

Part of the TeamBuilding and Professional Development services we offer is a Keynote & Workshop on Creative Thinking / Problem Solving and there are several exercises we commonly run that are perfect for Conference Idea Generation.

The way to get “great ideas” is to generate a “lot of ideas” and then evaluate their feasibility with your budget and aims.  A facilitated session can really fast track this process.

This can be conducted at a Conference Planning meeting with the Committee, Staff and PCO present. If I am onboard with a Conference, especially a multi day event this session is a complementary addition. Talk to us about the details.

Note 1 – Some of the techniques we cover in the short session, you will be able to use yourself on other projects.

Note 2 – We also offer a free Brilliant Brainstorming guidebook that you can use yourself. Go to the Resource page at

http://www.timothyhyde.com

or give our office a call and we will send you a copy.

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If you would like to download the complete "White Ideas Paper"
you can do so via the    Resource Page