Important Info for your Lean Startup Dinner (Monday) Version 8

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 Important Info for your Lean Startup Dinner (Monday)

Cool news: Our Monday group dinners have turned out to be super-popular. We’ll need your help to ensure they go smoothly. Take note: Dinners start at 7:30pm. Bring cash. The restaurants have requested this to make all the tabs manageable. There are ATMs in the lobby of both the Fairmont Hotel and the Masonic Center. We are sending you to adjacent restaurants: Etsia and Viva Pizza, which will both serve the Estia menu (Greek food). Your restaurant is Viva Pizza. When you get to the restaurant, look for Howard Freidman, who is your moderator and will have a sign on your table. As a reminder, your topic is Lean Analytics. The address for Estia is 1224 Grant Ave. The address for Viva Pizza is 318 Columbus Ave.   It’s about a 12-minute walk from the Fairmont Hotel, or a 5-minute cab ride. Around 7:15pm, look for other conference attendees in the hotel lobby who might want to share a cab.  Guidelines for Group Dinner Conversations We want your dinner conversations to be lively and interesting. With a group of strangers and an unstructured format, though, we realize the discussions could lack focus or vitality. To help make them most interesting and useful, we suggest the following guidelines. * We’ve designated a moderator for your table. It’s the moderator’s job to keep the conversation on track, make sure everyone has a chance to speak and that nobody dominates the conversation. But really, it’s everyone’s job to make sure those things happen. That’s why we’re sharing these guidelines with all dinner participants. * One conversation at a time--unless it’s too loud at the restaurant and your table decides to split into two smaller conversations. Either way, no interrupting. * Everyone at the table speaks at least once, not including intros. * Research shows that once a person has spoken during a meeting, they’re more likely to speak again. Just using your voice helps you use it again. To make the conversations most inclusive, consider a short round of introductions to warm up everyone. * Consider using a round-robin approach, where everyone at the table has a chance to address a topic, in turn. Or consider a stack approach where people indicate they have something to say, and the moderator takes note and then calls on each person in the order they indicated their contribution. * We imagine this goes without saying, but no name-calling or personal attacks. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________FEATURED SPONSORS