The Meeting marketplace™ Toolkit
Everything you need to know to run you own!

18 time-tested strategies for running innovative and imaginative meetings that work!

For professionals who run large community and organisational meetings, or for participants of these meetings………..Has the following thought ever crossed your mind?

"Large meetings are inefficient and ineffective, they waste precious time and resources, create false expectations, are elitist (you only hear the voice of the powerful and well connected) and they fail to tap into the wealth of information, knowledge and resources within a room".

? Would you like to know how to increase your impact as a host and/or participant of large meetings
? Would you like to have the necessary tools and resources on hand to run meetings that achieve a solution that is better than expected, has support, can be implemented and is successful
? Would you also like to develop long term and sustained relationships of integrity and credibility between your organisation and community/stakeholders
? Better still, what would it mean to you if you not only enjoyed these meetings, AND participants did also

The Meeting marketplace™ Toolkit has been designed for you!

Click on the links below to find out more about:

• Benefits you’ll instantly begin to experience by implementing the Toolkit
• What you’ll receive in the Meeting marketplace™ Toolkit
  
• Why use the Meeting marketplace™ instead of other meeting approaches?
  
• What is the Toolkit worth - my investment?

Click here to purchase your copy of the Toolkit now, with lifetime marketplace™ membership, for an incredible $95AuD
Click here to get your FREE Toolkit Introduction and Tip now!

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Here are some of the benefits you’ll instantly begin to experience by implementing the 18 time-tested strategies of the Meeting marketplace™ Toolkit:

Feel confident in knowing how to design and run a large meeting for consistent success.

Know that your meeting design and approach is grounded in the values and principles of effective public participation and group facilitation

Experience the satisfaction that comes from knowing how to host a meeting that people want to attend, they enjoy it, feel engaged and effective and you won't bore the pants off them!

Learn how to create highly experiential meetings that have participants energized and taking action long after the meeting is over

Not only have the resources needed to run a great meeting using the Meeting marketplace™ approach, but have the resources required to run any organisational or participation program

Know how to run a meeting that achieves a solution that has support and can be implemented

Save significant time, resources, and money in that the hard work is done for you, with the knowledge that the approach has been tested and refined

Become part of a larger community of practice, where you can share ideas and improve and evolve your own practice

Here’s what you’ll receive in the Meeting marketplace™ Toolkit:

Part A – The Ingredients: Outlines the five essential ingredients to a successful Meeting marketplace™.

Part B – Tips: Presents the Meeting marketplace™ step by step with comprehensive tips that are easily understood and applied. The tips are derived from hours of experience in running and improving Meeting marketplace™s.

Part C – Examples: Contains over 70 pages of examples and templates of the things that you will need to run both an effective participation program and an Meeting marketplace™. Examples include comprehensive participation plans, agendas, displays and posters, newsletters, media releases, checklists, handouts, and Meeting marketplace™ reports.

Part D – Case Studies: ‘Real life’ Meeting marketplace™ stories including evaluations of what worked well and what could be improved. These case studies are markedly different in terms of Meeting marketplace™ objective, context and audience. We frequently update Part D with new case studies.

Part E – Meeting marketplace™ ‘Virtual Tour’: This is a visual tour through a number of ‘real Meeting marketplace™s’ that EVOLVE has conducted. This Virtual Tour is supported by a 90-minute audio with Carla Rogers, the Meeting marketplace™ creator.

Part F – Frequently Asked Questions: The Meeting marketplace™ is dynamic as if the Meeting marketplace™ community and Evolve web. As part of our Meeting marketplace™ virtual workshop series, we enjoy engaging in lively discussion about the Meeting marketplace™ and its evolution. Questions and responses are included here, which again we frequently update.

Lifetime marketplace™ Membership: Ongoing access to the toolkit in a special pass code-protected area, Frequent Toolkit updates, A risk-free satisfaction guarantee and regular virtual workshops with a others who use the approach.

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Why would you use the Meeting marketplace™ approach instead of other meeting formats?

The Meeting marketplace™ meeting format and toolkit provides you with a clear framework and way to COMBINE your favourite meeting approaches to suit the situation and target audience. We at EVOLVE don’t believe that ‘one size fits all’. The Toolkit will show you how to design a meeting to meet your needs, that people will enjoy and where you know that you are meeting the values and principles of effective facilitation, public participation and group dynamics.

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What is the Toolkit worth?

Contracting a facilitator or consultant to conduct your own Meeting marketplace™ or large meeting can typically cost between $2000 and $10 000, or combined with designing and conducting a comprehensive participation program between $5000 and $10 000.

A 2 day Training Course in Facilitation, Public Participation or Different Meeting Formats can typically cost between $500 and $1500.

We are passionate about and believe strongly in the principles and values that underlie the Meeting marketplace™ approach, and believe that relationships and communication between people would be improved if more meetings were conducted in this style. We have therefore priced the Toolkit so that it is as accessible to as many people as possible.

For this reason, we offer the Toolkit and Lifetime membership to the Meeting marketplace™ Community for $95 AuD.

This includes over 170 downloadable pages of Strategies, Tips and Examples and a 90-minute virtual tour of a Meeting marketplace™ with Meeting marketplace™ creator, Carla Rogers.

Click here to purchase your copy of the Toolkit now.

Note: If you are using this material to maintain or improve your current business or professional skills, you will most likely be able to claim this as a full tax deduction. Please keep your receipts and check with your tax professional.

My Satisfaction Guarantee to You
Of course, success will depend on how well you put these ideas into practice. I am willing to guess that you will find the information so easy and practical that I'm going to make this guarantee …
This Toolkit comes with my personal 100% money-back lifetime guarantee so your purchase is risk-free. If you aren’t completely satisfied with the contents of the Toolkit, I’ll refund your money! So if you’re wondering whether to make the decision to get this, you can do so safe in the knowledge that you can return it at ANY time.

I wish you every success with conducting enjoyable and effective meetings. I hope that we have the opportunity to share thoughts and ideas about better ways to communicate and relate.

Carla Rogers, Principal, Evolve Facilitation and Coaching

Champing at the bit to run you own marketplace™?

Here is what you can do:

- Click here to purchase the toolkit and receive instant access to your password protected site
- Watch a video of a real marketplace™ here
- Join into our next ‘guided’ virtual tour (free) here

 

Carla Rogers, Principal, Evolve
“The Toolkit contains the best from over 150 marketplace™s. What to do. What NOT to do. HOW to do it. I could not even begin to estimate the hours of practice (i.e. running marketplace™s) that have gone into formulating this guide. As it is also about great public participation practice, I have made it as affordable as possible. I want as many people as possible running marketplace™s - cause they just work - and I want you to have the experience of a brilliant one!”

Gordon Clarke, Strategic Planning Manager, Shoalhaven City Council
“Council had previously used the traditional public meeting format and was
looking to try something different to reach the wider community. The  Meeting marketplace™, somewhat like a trade fair, was flexible, well received  by the community and Council and provided a range of opportunities,  including an online option, for people to have their say."

Elisia Dowling, Parks Victoria
"We were searching for an innovative way to consult with the community.  The meeting marketplace™ was exactly what we were looking for. It is fun, new, exciting and the toolkit provided us with a step by step guide. There is something for everyone in this approach!" 

Andrew Huffer, Director, Andrew Huffer and Associates Pty. Ltd.
"As a facilitator, I found that the meeting marketplace™ approach and toolkit made my job relatively easy and definitely more enjoyable! Participants could see that this was a genuine engagement process and the client that community engagement was no longer something to be scared of, providing value for the project, organisation and participants. As one participant said:  "Thanks for a wonderful meeting. I thought that it would be very emotional and that we wouldn't get the chance to have our say. It's been completely different from what I expected and what I have experienced in this town before." 

A message from the desk of Carla Rogers, Principal, Evolve Facilitation and Coaching

I will begin by being frank:
Large meetings conducted in a conventional format don’t work, there has to be – and there is - a better way!
This view is based on more than twenty years’ experience as participant, host, speaker and observer with community and organisational meetings involving large numbers of people. A frequent and intriguing observation that I made was that as soon as the ‘cuppa’ break was announced, the room would break into lively conversation, which would often continue when it was officially ‘all over’. As I switched between the various animated groups, I was often struck by the quality of the information exchanged, the ‘real’ issues canvassed and the imaginative ideas suggested. I wondered how this ‘cuppa’ conversation could be captured more effectively.

This question was always uppermost in my mind as my work took me on journeys through Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States, finding different ways for people to meet. Some meeting formats like ‘World Café’, ‘Open Space Technology’ and ‘Open House’ captured part of what I was seeking. What I wanted to add to these approaches was a meeting format that would allow me to use a range of different approaches to suit the topic and the participants AND that would yield a useful and supported outcome.

After some experimentation, the ‘Meeting marketplace™’ emerged: the formalised ‘cuppa’ where there are productive exchanges of information, issues and ideas, and which provides sufficient flexibility for the ‘magic to happen’ through innovative and imaginative thinking.
What I wish to spare you from is the angst of putting hours of effort and time into running a meeting that is not as effective as you wish AND to benefit from the years of experience, experimentation and thinking about different meeting formats.

The Toolkit is designed to do just this - enable you to run a terrific meeting without the angst!