IMC NCR Speakers Bureau

The Speakers Bureau is a referral service for members to market your skills and experience to potential clients by speaking to organizations and business groups. It is a way to market you specifically and IMC NCR generally by addressing businesses, organizations and government agencies on management and consulting related topics according to your area of expertise and your speaking experience and effectiveness. To submit a speaking topic, please complete a Speakers Bureau Signup Form (active later in the month).

Guidelines:

• Any active member of the IMC NCR Chapter may volunteer for the IMC NCR Speakers Bureau

• IMC NCR will place special emphasize on recruiting CMCs for the Speakers Bureau

• The first requirement to join the Speakers Bureau is to be a good speaker and present on a topic that falls within the domain of the management consulting discipline

• Speeches may cover any topic that the IMC member has sufficient expertise and credibility to deliver. Below are some sample topics.

• Virtual Corporations fad or the wave of the future

• Interpersonal Skills not technology is the true key to productivity

• Keys to IT project implementation success

• Why planning is more important than plans

• The importance of effective performance management

• How to make change work for you, not against you

• All speakers will be expected to devote a few “sentences to explain IMC and to motivate the audience to consider IMC NCR consultants as a source for meeting their management consulting needs.  The paragraph below is an example of information that may be shared regarding IMC.

• Speakers are encouraged to share copies of their presentations with IMC NCR when appropriate to make it easier to increase the number of speakers willing and prepared to present.

Speakers Bureau Procedures:

To get the program kicked off in October 2002, we are suggesting you identify a topic on which you have already spoken. For now, place yourself in one of the categories below for each speaking topic (you may nominate as many prepared talks as you have already delivered). We will expand and modify these categories as more speakers sign up and the list of distinct topics grows.

• HR/Professional Development

• Strategic, Operational & Financial Planning

• Marketing & Sales

• Technology & Production

The IMC NCR Speakers Bureau chair will maintain a list of speakers and develop a list of potential organizations interested in hearing a speaker. It will be the collective responsibility of the chapter membership to build the list of organizations as well as speaker volunteers. In other words, when you see an opportunity to suggest a speaker, do so for the benefit of your member colleagues.

The chair will match a requesting organization with an appropriate speaker from the list of volunteers and confirm the speaking engagement.

Speakers will be given as much notice as possible but at least thirty days notice unless there is a good reason and the volunteer has no problem with a shorter notification period.

Speakers will be given the following information:

• Organization

• Objective of the organization for requesting a speaker

• Time allotted for the speech

• Date and location

• Point of contact from the requesting organization

After the speaking engagement, IMC NCR will ask organizations to provide an evaluation of the speaker's effectiveness, to be used in assigning speakers to future engagements.

To submit a topic, complete the Speakers Bureau Signup Form.