Agenda

Each year's agenda reflects a common theme and provides a range of activities. As an example, the 2009 agenda is below.

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Sunday, October 4th

  • Welcome reception and wine tasting
  • Dinner
  • Mystery activity

Monday, October 5th

  • Minnesuing fitness
  • Welcome session
  • Member double-dates
  • Communicating during uncertain times: Member cases and the CRA playbook
  • Theory break: Expectancy Theory
  • Keynote: Tribal Leadership, David Logan
  • Lunch
  • Minnesuing case studies: Demonstrating value to leadership, Dave Jackson, ConAgra
  • Reverse panel discussion: Day 1 wisdom
  • Activities
  • Cocktails
  • Dinner

Tuesday, October 6th

  • Minnesuing fitness
  • Life at the leading edge: What we’re seeing in culture research, new media, and global team management
  • Theory break: Framing
  • What I learned from the school of hard knocks (six members share failures and what they learned)
  • Minnesuing case studies: Coke’s Great Place to Work initiative, Diana Martin, Coke
  • Lunch
  • Mining best practices cohort breakouts:
    • New media
    • Leveraging the rumor mill
    • Aligning with external communication
    • Finding and growing great talent
    • Building strong internal partnerships
    • Influencing senior leaders
  • Best practices report out
  • Discussion and debrief
  • Free time
  • Cocktails
  • Dinner

Wednesday, October 7th

  • Theory break: Fear appeals
  • “If I ruled the world …”
  • Open forum: Predictions on 2013
  • Final Qs and As
  • Reverse panel
  • Lessons for us and next year
  • Departure

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