Audience Engagement
Ensure your final presentation includes audience engagement techniques, such as but not limited to group work, small group discussions, flip charts, QR codes, or digital tools to engage individual responses (Wordly, Padlet, jamboards, Mentimeter are just a few examples). The WERC team will be happy to support you if you have any questions about how to make your session as engaging as possible!
Structure Your Presentation
Develop your presentation in a logical, progressive flow based on your session learning objectives. Create an outline of the presentation and share it with your audience to begin the session. Include a summary to end your presentation to reiterate your learning objectives.
Go In-depth
When building your content, keep your audience in mind and provide in-depth content vs. high-level concepts. Based on feedback from the 2023 event, the WERC global attendees are looking for sessions that go beyond surface level and dive deep into your topic.
Know Your Timing
Breakout sessions will be 60 minutes, including your presentation and time for Q&A. It is essential to the conference and attendee experience to stick to the schedule. When building your presentation, be mindful of how much content you can cover within the time allotted.
Panelist Presence
When building your panelists, consider the following:
- Ensure all panelists are subject matter experts on the topic
- Panelists with unique perspectives from one another
- Panelists from varying practice settings. For example, a large firm, a small firm, a government, a nonprofit, etc.
- Panelists of similar job levels
Limit the panel to no more than 4 panelists and 1 moderator