Call For Presentations
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2009 (11:59 pm USA CT)
The 2010 Conference Program Committee invites submissions to present at the 22nd Annual Conference and Organizing Exposition of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO). The conference theme is: Innovate. Connect. Inspire.
Professional Organizers enhance the lives of clients by implementing systems and processes, and through transferring organizing skills. Professional Organizers also educate the public on organizing solutions and the resulting benefits.
Proposals are sought for 90-minute concurrent sessions or 3-hour “mega-sessions”. The primary conference objective is to provide organizers at all levels with content-rich programming of the highest caliber. We are looking to address a broad range of organizer experience levels, from beginners to experts. Our speakers are of the highest caliber in presentation and topic. Below are some suggested categories for your consideration:
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- Action plan development and implementation
- Business Models, including organizers as consultants, employers or subcontractors
- Assessment
- Chronic Disorganization and Hoarding
- Communication skills
- Ergonomics and Feng Shui
- "Green" organizing
- Intellectual property, trademark and copyright issues
- Learning styles and working with different client and personality types
- Marketing or sales for Business/Corporate, Small Business or Residential Organizing
- Organizing skills for Business/Corporate, Small Business or Residential Organizing
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- Specialty niche marketing and organizing skills (such as financial organizing, organizing students, etc.)
- Personal or professional growth
- Products and passive income
- Project management
- Public speaking
- Psychology and mental health issues
- Social media
- Space design and planning
- Special needs clients
- Strategic alliances
- Time Management
- Tools and technology for organizers
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Workshop proposals are encouraged to align with the Conference theme, Innovate. Connect. Inspire. Please feel free to submit more than one proposal.
Pre-conference Sessions:
Pre-conference workshops are for those who would like more intense training on a subject. These are designed to cover topics in more depth with a half day, four hour session. Our Pre Conference workshops should go beyond theory and give attendees information that can put into action! The focus should be on building skills.
Our attendees are more and more sophisticated every year and we feel it is vital to recognize this when putting together this proposal.
Speaker Expenses:
All speakers are responsible for personal travel and hotel expenses, and presentation expenses such as slides and handouts not included in the program book.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
All proposals must be received by NAPO
by July 15, 2009 (11:59 PM USA CT)
NOTIFICATIONS:
You will be notified if your proposal is accepted by or before the end of August, 2009.
PRESENTATION PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
By submitting a proposal to NAPO:
- I understand that I must travel to the conference in Columbus, OH at my own expense.
- I authorize my presentation to be recorded and/or videotaped. I agree to follow the recording guidelines to enhance the quality of the audio or videotapes.
- I understand that a submission of a proposal implies a commitment to make the presentation, if accepted.
- I understand there are to be no back-of-the-room sales at the 2010 Conference.
- I agree that all handout materials will be my original work or I will have the author’s permission, in writing, to reproduce and distribute his/her copyrighted material as handout copy. Proper reference will also be noted in the handout.
- I agree to submit all materials for my presentation to the NAPO Meeting Department by the deadlines established by NAPO staff.
- I understand that as an educational speaker I will have the opportunity to submit a 10-page single sided handout for the conference program book that may include one page of marketing/product order information. The preferred format for handouts is power point. It is strongly recommended that your submitted handout, which will be printed in the program book, be congruent with what you will be presenting at conference.
- I agree that no other marketing or promotional materials may be distributed during my presentation, even if I did not submit a handout for the printed conference program book.
- I understand that his is an education conference, and will limit any direct marketing of programs or products in my presentation unless it is extremely relevant to my topic.
- I understand that NAPO cannot guarantee that speakers will have access to the Internet during their presentation. Therefore, I agree to adapt my presentation to not require a live Internet connection.
- Only submissions that lists ALL speakers/presenters (primary and co) will be reviewed by the Conference Program Committee.
- No co-speakers/presenters may be added after the submission.
- Conference sessions should not be religious in nature, have no reference to religious practices, and should not be exclusionary to any attendee.
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CONFERENCE WORKSHOP SESSIONS.
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PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS.
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