The Advocacy Guy’s Pledge

Part 1: Preparing For Your Event
I will;

1. Be available to discuss plans for my advocacy training or advocacy keynote;
2. Know who you are, what you do, and why you do it;
3. Understand my role and have specific plans to meet or exceed your goals for my presentation;
4. Know why your people want to hear what I have to say on this training or development topic;
5. Know and understand the theme of your meeting and relate my program to it;
6. Work with you and other speakers, speakers bureau to assure your program goals are met; and
7. Keep you informed in advance of my travel itinerary

Part 2: On-Site Action
I will;

1. Immediately notify you when I arrive on site. Notify you immediately should there be any serious delays;
2. Be available to you the whole time that I am at the site;
3. Be considerate in the use of my room charges and incidental expenses;
4. Be available in the meeting room 1 hour ahead of when I speak;
5. Coordinate with set-up crew and other presenters to make sure my needs fit your overall needs;
6. Stay out of the way until I speak;
7. Be appropriately dressed to fit the program;
8. Work with the set-up crew to maximize program impact on you audience and vise versa;
9. Be in the room, ready to go, prior to my introduction; and
10. Provide an easy, brief introduction and be available to coach my introducer

Part 3: Program Commitment
I will;

1. Be energized and focused in opening my program;
2. Interact and involve the audience through dialog, asking them questions, a show of hands, eye contact, and exercises;
3. Present well researched, accurate, profound information;
4. Use appropriate slides and audio clips, video clips, to enhance the look, feel and impact of the program;
5. Never be rude to an audience member;
6. Allow for questions and comments form the audiend during my presentation;
7. Relate my points to your organization and people;
8. Never abuse my assignment by turning my speech into a sales pitch; and
9. Stick to my time frame and adjust if needed.

Part 4: Post Convention Work
I will;

1. Stay after my speech and interact with the attendee’s, answering questions or to hear comments;
2. Check out with minimum effort to you;
3. Itemize my expenses and bill you quickly, per our agreement;
4. Send materials to members of the audience who requested it;
5. Suggest strategies to continue the impact of the presentation on the audience; and
6. Accept personal phone calls or email to follow up on the speech individual audience members or executives

Pre-Program Questionnaire