A compact disk, including all of the presentations, agenda, and list of participants from the workshop, is available online at http://www.cdc.gov/narms/mce/animalfeeds.htm.htm
Titled Ditch the Pitch: The Art of Improvised Persuasion, Yarrow states in chapter one, "Sales people go on sales calls armed with PowerPoint presentations, scripted agendas, and preconceived notions about what should happen on the call".
Presentations and agendas were developed at the national level to ensure standardization.
Despite the understandably bitter reaction to John Ashcroft and to President Bush's anti-abortion stance on foreign aid, Democrats in Washington admit to being impressed by the new president's charm offensive, nicknames and all, and by the tactical dexterity of the White House's presentation of its agenda of issues.
The officials ended the conference a half-day early, saying the formal presentations on the agenda had been completed ahead of schedule.
One morning, when the presentations on the agenda included "Char as a Model for Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Arctic Fishery Resources," I decided to rent a car and take a drive.
Therefore, planners of the 2010 roundtable included several background presentations in the agenda.
But things need to get done now as the local media have put the presentation on their agendas for tomorrow afternoon.
The workshop agenda, presentations, background materials, roster of the invited panel and other attendees, and public comments can be found on the NTP website (http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov; see "Meetings & Workshops" or directly at http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/go/18592).nih.gov/go/18592
Finally, perceptions and opinions of the pilot training workshop agenda, presentations and materials were assessed through focus group discussions and self-administered questionnaires completed by the teachers and semi-structured interviews also took place with three of the facilitators.
The concept note, agenda and presentation are available and various background papers will also be shared to the participants of the meeting.
