Summary: <a href="https://www.complianceandethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/turteltaub-adam-200x200.jpg"></a>By <a href="mailto:adam.turteltaub@corporatecompliance.org">Adam Turteltaub</a><br> <br> You’re all signed up for the <a href="https://my.corporatecompliance.org/s/community-event?id=a1m5f000002aqa7AAA">Compliance & Ethics Institute</a> or another SCCE or HCCA conference. Now, how do you make the most out of your time there?<br> <br> <a href="http://www.compliancekristy.com">Kristy Grant-Hart</a> CEO of Spark Compliance Consulting and a former compliance officer, herself, shares in this podcast several excellent tips for making your conference time truly valuable.<br> <br> Her recommendations:<br> <br> * Plan out which sessions you want to attend before you arrive. It makes for a much more strategic and less stressful approach than picking sessions hurriedly at the breaks.<br> * Pick the sessions based on both the topic and the speakers you want to listen to and meet.<br> * Map out time to do work and answer email. It’s a lot easier to sit and listen to a session when you have a defined times to work and a defined time to be fully present at the conference.<br> * Start your networking before you go. Announce on LinkedIn that you’ll be there and try to connect with others who will be attending.<br> * Take advantage of vendor receptions and dinners to meet more people.<br> * When you connect onsite, also connect on LinkedIn right then and there.<br> * If you promise you’ll send someone a follow up email, do it that night before you forget.<br> * Don’t be afraid to approach people you don’t know. They’re probably there to meet new people, too.<br> * Put your follow-ups for once you’re back in the office into a list that you can easily find.<br> <br> Listen in to hear more great ideas for getting the most out of your time at the conference.
