The Brain Trust

CEO Conference

Thomas W. Cramer,
Founder, Co-Chairman, The Brain Trust

 
12 Ingredients Of A Successful CEO Conference
 
Here are 12 essential ingredients of a successful CEO Conference

1) A successful CEO Conference is an executive gathering that provides business leaders with an opportunity to exchange information, support professional development, build partnerships, share and develop insights and best practices.

2) A successful CEO Conference, like any effective meeting, is led by an agenda, sticks to specific time frames and provides time for questions and answers.

3) A successful CEO Conference takes place in a positive, comfortable environment that is clearly work-focused. The atmosphere and furnishings should express success. Sound quality and lighting support rather than impede the work to be done.

4) A successful CEO Conference is centered on candid and confidential exchanges with peers that help the leader to become more trusted, confident and capable.

5) A successful CEO Conference confronts the transformative decisions that shape the destiny of the organizations the attendees lead. Truly pivotal issues are addressed, discussed and either resolved or significantly advanced toward resolution.

6) A successful CEO Conference that includes companies undergoing fundamental change will address the need to adapt growth-models to that change.

7) A successful CEO Conference will be focused on “nuts-and-bolts” operations that may include issues relating to stimulating the growth of the company, reducing debt, attracting investment, curbing excess, raising profits, improving productivity, fostering innovation and relating to current events of the world community (like a global recession or new emerging economies).

8) A successful CEO Conference will be highly motivational, and provide constructive channels for that motivation to empower both career and organizational progress.

9) A successful CEO Conference will be focused on maximizing individual and organizational performance through a deeply personal exploration that fosters clearer and more comprehensive understanding of yourself, your followers and “external” factors. 

10) A successful CEO Conference will help you discover the “blind spots” in your leadership, access your own most authentic and powerful leadership style, and “tune in” to your “gut feelings” or intuition for problem-solving and creative breakthroughs. Leaders will emerge with a clearer sense of their “inner compass”, guided by their core values and principles.

11) A successful CEO Conference will cover not just essentials of leadership, but also of “followership”, helping you to understand the keys for harnessing the full potential of a fully engaged “followership”. A deep look into the power of motivation, ethics and leadership style most certainly factors in. A related aspect will have to do with how to develop leadership in others.

12) A successful CEO Conference will frame the powers of establishing a vision for the future and inspiring others to engage fully in that vision’s manifestation through both incremental and radical change.
 
Through a focus on the leader’s role in the context of specific scenarios, a successful CEO Conference will strengthen the leader in essential ways that include the ability to build an organization that can overcome crucial challenges to sustainability and growth. Participants emerge from a successful CEO Conference better prepared to expand their responsibilities and successfully tackle formidable business challenges.
 
Summary: A successful CEO Conference strengthens leaders to build an organization that can overcome crucial challenges to sustainability and growth.