Conference 2024
APDO Conference 2024 – Inspiring a Sustainable Future
7 & 8 March 2024
Further programme details below.
Thursday 7 March
In today's dynamic digital landscape, we all need to leverage our online presence, especially video platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, to build our brands, get new clients and have an impact that stands the test of time.
During this presentation we'll get into concrete steps you can take today to create consistent branding on social media, easy to implement content ideas specific to professional organisers and efficient video and image editing methods.
After this presentation you will have the tools to maintain a sustainable and influential online presence that evolves and adapts to the ever-changing landscape of social media, ensuring your professional home organising business thrives year after year.
10.15am – 11.15am
Top Digital Productivity Tools to reclaim your time, energy and focus
Top Digital Productivity Tools to reclaim your time, energy and focus
Keynote
In this session, Digital Productivity expert, Liz Hardwick, will share some simple and actionable tips to help you reclaim your time, energy and focus... even in the most busiest of times.
We will work together on Liz's new "Wheel of Productivity Tool", and she will share her top digital productivity tools to help you to prioritise what matters first. Liz will also share her favourite
apps to get stuff DONE! and harness digital to work for you... and not become a distraction!
In this session you will learn...
- 3 Top Productivity Tips with a productivity process and supportive app to use
- Reflection prompts to quickly and easily check-in on your productivity and goals throughout your working day/week
- How to use Liz's brand new tool, The Digital Productivity Wheel – enabling you to go deeper with your digital productivity journey and focus on what matters to you
Speakers
Liz Hardwick
11.45am – 12.45pm
Top Digital Productivity Tools - Implementation Session
Sustaining Success: Nurturing Yourself to Fuel Business Growth
Sustaining Success: Nurturing Yourself to Fuel Business Growth
Focus Session
Discover the transformative journey in our workshop, "The Power of Self-Care for Entrepreneurs," designed to create a sustainable foundation for long-term business success.
Connect Mind and Body: Embark on a journey exploring the intricate mind-body connection, gaining insights into alarming statistics surrounding entrepreneurial stress and burnout. Engage in an interactive exercise for personal reflection, recognizing signs of burnout.
Quick Stress Management Techniques:
Nurturing Your Mind and Boosting Productivity:
Uncover the importance of mindfulness in entrepreneurship. Embrace 5-minute mindful breaks for clarity and focus. Engage in a guided mini-mindfulness session to elevate your productivity.
I share the importance of Integrating physical activity into your daily routine with practical tips. Receive hydration and nutrition insights and witness a quick desk exercise demonstration to keep your body in optimal shape.
Empowering Your Spirit: Learn strategies for maintaining motivation and cultivating resilience in the face of challenges. Participate in a group discussion to share and discover personalised resilience tactics.
We discuss Integrating Self-Care into Daily Entrepreneurial Life & understand the importance of setting boundaries and gain practical tips for effective time management.
Speakers
Alison Magee-Barker
1.45pm – 2.45pm
Sustainable Social Media Strategies for Professional Organisers
Sustainable Social Media Strategies for Professional Organisers
Focus Session
Join me as I dive into sustainable social media strategies tailored to help home organisers establish long-term success.In today's dynamic digital landscape, we all need to leverage our online presence, especially video platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, to build our brands, get new clients and have an impact that stands the test of time.
During this presentation we'll get into concrete steps you can take today to create consistent branding on social media, easy to implement content ideas specific to professional organisers and efficient video and image editing methods.
After this presentation you will have the tools to maintain a sustainable and influential online presence that evolves and adapts to the ever-changing landscape of social media, ensuring your professional home organising business thrives year after year.
Speakers
Allison Weigensberg
The Best Boss You Can Be To Yourself
The Best Boss You Can Be To Yourself
Focus Session
Helen will be speaking about how you can be the best boss that you can be,to yourself. During the session we will cover our expectations of ourselves, how to stay motivated and treating ourselves kindly & handling our mistakes all from the point of view of building a business that is sustainable for your health & wellbeing. We have all had frustrating Managers and we all know when team leadership is good 7 when it sucks. Becoming self employed we think hurray I am free of all that rubbish & then we take on all the traits of every bad boss we have ever had and we treat ourselves like C**p Join me to understand how the be the best boos to yourself that you have ever had.
Helen regularly travels to the States as her boyfriend lives in Buffalo and she has seen Niagara Falls 3 times even when it was frozen. Helen’s passion is in helping women treat themselves with excessive kindness as the best strategy for gaining confidence & making progress.
Speakers
Helen Calvert
4pm – 5.15pm
Behind The Finds: the very best secrets of Charity retailing.
Behind The Finds: the very best secrets of Charity retailing.
Keynote
In Jo’s session she will introduce us to Charity retailing; how it operates and the various ways the charity drives the contributions for their causes. Jo will take us on the various different journeys that donated items can take. Jo will also discuss sustainability and how every delegate & organisation can help charities reach their goals
Speakers
Jo Mewett
Friday 8 March
10am – 11am
Hoarding: What You As Organisers Need To Know
Hoarding: What You As Organisers Need To Know
Keynote
Sooner or later every organiser will walk into a hoarded home. You may know in advance from your phone intake, and you may not. What you see can be overwhelming.
We're going to talk about the psychology behind hoarding, and when you leave you will have some real-world tips and techniques to help you to better work with those that hoard (and those that don't).
Speakers
Maria Spetalnik
11.30am – 12.30pm
Hoarding: What You, As Organisers, Need to Know - Implementation Session
Fostering a Mindset for Change and Sustaining New Habits for a New Way of Living
Fostering a Mindset for Change and Sustaining New Habits for a New Way of Living
Focus Session
This will be an interactive and informative session, teaching delegates how to create a mindset motivated to make positive change, and covering the psychology of creating and sustaining new habits for a more beneficial way of living.
Delegates will have tangible tools and strategies to implement, either in their own lives or in their work with clients. They'll get engaging and relatable examples of how to utilise these new mindset and CBT tools and learn ways to motivate themselves, or clients, to embrace change and work in a collaborative way, to get the best outcomes.
Speakers
Clare Flaxen
1.30pm – 2.30pm
Digital Data Legacy
Digital Data Legacy
Focus Session
Our Digital Data consumption continues to increase, we use cloud storage and online accounts for our files, pictures, documents and more. Maintaining this data has a huge impact on the environment. Have you ever considered what will happen to this data after your demise? In her session Marianne will present staggering facts & practical steps to minimise your own digital footprint and assist your clients in doing so.
Speakers
Marianne Winter
Be Reuse and Recycle Ready: What To Do With Unwanted Items
Be Reuse and Recycle Ready: What To Do With Unwanted Items
Focus Session
During the session we'll be asking, what happens behind the scenes in the charity shop world and should we trust our donations to the charity shops.
Delegates will be presented with 5 reasons to help them decide if they should trust their donations to charity shops, expanding knowledge on how things work and sparking discussion and introspect amongst attendees.
We'll look at;
- What can charity shops REALLY except?
- Real life charity shop scenerios that must be solved
- Different ways to further support local charity shops
Speakers
Sheena Taylor
3.30pm – 4.30pm
Panel Discussion - The Psychology of Consumerism and Addiction
Panel Discussion - The Psychology of Consumerism and Addiction
Panel Discussion
Join us as we delve into shopping habits, the difference between men and women when it comes to shopping and how the impact of social media has changed shopping habits over the years.
Facilitated by Penny Moyes from The Clean and Tidy Show, we'll discuss the psychology behind shopping - when are we just shopping and when does shopping become an addiction?
Speakers
