As your career has grown, I bet that you've had more and more opportunities to go to or at least be invited to professional conferences to further your expertise in your field or maybe the field of your customers and clients.

In this episode we're going to be looking at the secret to success at conferences, how

to get the most out of them, and how to be as effective as possible in making

connections with others. This is Coaching for Leaders episode number 73.

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

Greetings from Orange County, California.

This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host Dave Stahopiac.

This is a weekly show to help smart people improve their communication and leadership skills.

Now you may be tuning in because you've never had any formal education or training

in how to communicate and lead.

And now you either want to lead or need to lead or manage others.

And if that's you, welcome to the club.

I think most of us who are a part of this community

never had much leadership or communications training before moving into a management role or just wanting to be more influential with people.

I know I had very little I sure would have liked to have a whole lot more and And my hope is that by listening to this show

that you'll get a lot of actionable advice

and information that will help you to be more and more effective.

And that's why this week I'm so excited to bring you the topic of the secret to success at conferences.

And one of the things I always try to do is to bring in people to this show as guests who've had some experience in doing the things that we're talking about.

And about a year ago I met my friend Chuck Wood and Chuck, we were just talking this week as we sat down to record

this interview and we were counting up how many conferences Chuck had been to in the last

year and I think we finally lost count.

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