For those heading to Las Vegas next week for the annual work comp meeting, it’s time to re-confirm meetings, check for double booked time slots (I always have at least 2), and finalize the sessions you’ve got to attend.
Here’s a list of must-dos when preparing for Vegas. It’s far too easy to miss essential sessions or forget to stop by booths to meet with vendors so be sure to set that calendar up with the right alerts. To help navigate to sessions and around the exhibit floor, I strongly encourage all to download and use the NWCDC smartphone app.
Bob Wilson, the legendary WorkCompKing, John Plotkin and I will take the stage at 5:30 pm Nov. 11 at the Mandalay Bay in Vegas to discuss how social media can be used for good. Bob’s public discussion of SAIF’s appalling treatment of Plotkin is well known and but one example of the power of social media. If you haven’t signed up for ISG’s Social Media: SAFE and Uncensored get-together, registration is here; cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
Random notes
Here’s a great post on how to know when to move on from a chance meeting; I expect a few colleagues will employ these techniques when they run into me unexpectedly. No worries, no offense taken.
Be smart and don’t cross the stupid line. Have a great time but remember someone’s within watching or listening range – and that someone could be a potential customer, boss, employee, or colleague.
Finally, it’s a long week – pace yourself.
I’ll be live blogging from Vegas when I get the time; planning to get a couple posts out each day but plans have a way of changing.
If you can’t make it to Vegas, or even if you do and can’t get to all the sessions you want, you can see summaries of many conference sessions on the Safety National Conference Chronicles blog
https://www.safetynational.com/conferencechronicles/
I will have two of my staff there attending sessions and blogging.
Not a shameless plug….It’s a public service announcement. :-)