Getting People to Attend Your Meetings
We have all been there. You build a great training session based on the expressed needs of your audience. You then circulate the agenda with a sign up form. Lots of folks sign up. Then ---- there are a lot of "no shows." What happens between the time these folks sign up for the training and the actual day of training?
Many of our Intermediaries have asked for suggestions on how to encourage attendance follow-through and how to decrease "no shows." While the following suggestions have been made by a number of our Intermediaries, these are terrific recommendations for any organization.
Here are suggestions that I can do?
- Use word-of-mouth referrals. Have previous participants who have attended past trainings personally invite their network to attend;
- Serve lunch;
- Have a potential participant determine the workshop topics;
- Advertise heavily through newsletters and emails;
- Call each participant the week before the event to confirm attendance and then follow-up the day before the training;
- Overbook registration by 30%
Warning: CCF Intermediaries cannot charge for training. This includes collecting a token registration fee (e.g. $10.00) even if it would be returned at registration.
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