Enhancing Soft Skills: A Business Conference Planning and Execution

This report outlines the planning and execution of a business conference centered on enhancing soft skills among employees. The conference aimed to improve communication skills, bridge learning gaps, and enrich soft skill sets through various activities and speaker sessions. The report includes a detailed conference schedule, cost breakdown, and post-conference template for engaging with speakers. Activities included group discussions, interactive sessions, and practical exercises focused on self-awareness, effective communication, and business etiquette. The conference sought to provide employees with the tools and knowledge necessary to improve their communication skills and overall professional development. Desklib provides access to this document, offering students a valuable resource, along with many other solved assignments and past papers.

Running Head: BUSINESS CONFERENCE 0
Business Conference
Individual Assignment
Student name

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Contents
Task - 1........................................................................................................................................................2
Task-2..........................................................................................................................................................4
Activities:.................................................................................................................................................5
Task 3..........................................................................................................................................................6
Task – 4........................................................................................................................................................7
Task -5.........................................................................................................................................................8
Template for post conference:................................................................................................................8
Bibliography................................................................................................................................................9

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Task - 1
Workshop is based on the soft skills, and it will helpful for enhancing soft skills of employees as
well as other peoples. Company has an objective to deliver a high quality soft skill conference
for employees that will complement the business and technical skill for growing the soft skills
(ISORECEA, 2018).
Purpose of the Conference: Enhancing soft skills as well as communication
skills
Conference Style: Softs skill
Related Outcomes:  To create effective communication between
organization and its employees
 To enrich communication as well as soft
skill set of the employees
 To bridge the gap amid contemporary and
conventional way of learning
Identify speakers
/ presenters selected
Speaker A, Speaker, B , Speaker C, Speaker D
Volunteers, convener
Identify any call for papers that occurred  A booked place for the conference
 Good quality sound system contract
 Catering facility contract
 Basic arrangements for the speakers and
participants
Explain why those particular speakers and
presenters were chosen:
They are chosen for their highly qualified
renowned degree, and relevant knowledge to the
conference topic. Moreover, their qualified
experience is desired to achieve conference

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outcomes.
How would you invite the speakers to the
workshop?
Methods for inviting the speakers to the workshop:
1. Email invitation
2. Confirmation call over phone
3. Invitation letters by post
4. Personal invitation to convener

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Task-2
Conference Plan Schedule
Monday, 30 October 2018
S. No. Time Activity
1. 10:00 – 11:00 am Opening ceremony and Guest Speech
2. 11:00 – 11:30 pm Convener’s Speech
3. 11:30 - 12:00 pm Tea Break
4. 12:00 - 1:00 pm Speaker A (Activities and daily soft skills
overview)
5. 01:00 - 2:00 pm Group discussion and an activity conducted by
Speaker A
6. 2:00 – 2:40 pm Lunch
7. 2:40 – 3:40 Speaker –B ( Communication skill and Voice
and accent training overview)
8. 3:40- 4:00 pm Interactive session in between all the speakers
and employees
9. 4:00-4:15 pm High Tea Break
10. 4:15- 5:00 pm Speaker – C (Business etiquette as well as
personal grooming)
11. 5:00 – 6:00 pm Speaker D (Non-verbal communication)
12. 6:00 – 6:30 pm Practical session on desired attributes include
smiling, handshake, posture, voice tone, and
eye contact of a highly soft skilled employee.
13. 6:30 – 7:00 pm Greeting of the speakers and Vote of thanks
speech by the convener
14. 7:00 – 7:10 pm Vote of thanks by the volunteers
15. 7:10 – 7:30 pm Tea/coffee and refreshment

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Activities:
A- Group discussion is on “effective communication for self-awareness” for grooming the
knowledge of every participant in the conference.
B- All speakers share their knowledge to other persons and all learn about new technologies.
C- Different ways for normal daily routine work with a proper channel
D- We providing different facilities to the every person present in the conference, such as
conference kit (Pen, Notebook, and bag), identity card for conference (Rachmawati,
2012).

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Task 3
Cost Break based on provided money for the conference as follows:
Cost Break up for Workshop
Item
Amount
($)
Auditorium rental 50.00
Food and Catering (25 people*$10 per
head) 250.00
Electronics equipment rental 50.00
Supervisors salary (4 supervisors*50) 80.00
Labor and maintenance staff salary 70.00
Other miscellaneous expenses 100.00
Total 600.00
Complete details are mention in the table for 20 member’s conference on soft skills (evolang,
2018).

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Task – 4
In the conference, there will be some activities for all participants, which are so useful for
conference as well as for participants. It will make a better conference and it will be useful for
everyone, who is present in the conference. There are some interactive sessions between
speakers and participants for sharing their great knowledge. This will also beneficial for
conference. It will remove boringness from conference. There are a schedule for proper
management of tea, lunch, and high tea, so nobody feel lazy in the conference. There are highly
skilled persons in conference as a speaker, so that every person in busy in the getting knowledge
from speech. It will have some activities between the session and after the session for removing
boringness of participant during conference. There are individual and group exercises on the
learning objective, such as self-awareness, effective communication skill, reflection, and self-
evaluation. Some games will be played between the conference for prevention of boring. Some
exercise will be beneficial for betterment of conference are case based exercise, demonstration
on-sight, role playing, inquiry-based learning, experimental learning, and hand on learning
(Robles, 2012).
There is evaluation round also for learning and it will be helpful for future learning. Basic theme
is learning by doing. For enhancing communication skills, all these activities are so necessary.
Audiences are really matter for the conference so it is highly required for the conference.
Speakers are expert in their filed and because of it; all participants are energetic for the
conference as well as during the conference (Conference, 2018).
As we know that employees communication skills plays a key role in success of an organization,
hence this conference aimed to increase soft skills set of employees as well as management of
that organization (Griffith & Hoppner, 2013).

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Task -5
Template for post conference:
Hi Speaker name,
Glad we have to meet at conference. I checked out your work afterwards and loved your take on
creating effective soft skills. We are delighted after meeting great personality like you. Your
work experience was proved very beneficial for our employees as well as each member who
attended the conference. We have great review and knowledge from the conference.
Again, it was great meeting you at “enchasing soft skill”, and we hope to see you again soon.
Convener Signature

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ISORECEA, 2018. Criteria for proposing a conference. [Online]
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Rachmawati, R., 2012. The Implementaton Quantum Teaching Method of Graduate Through
Up-Grade Hard Skill and Soft Skill:(Case study on Management Accounting Class).. Procedia-
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