Fall Convention Presentations
Call for Presenters
The South Carolina Assisted Living Association (SCALA) invites professionals, educators, and
industry leaders to submit proposals to present at the upcoming SCALA Conference and Training
Series. This event features in-person day trainings, live webinars, and conference sessions designed
to support excellence in assisted living management, resident care, compliance, and leadership across South Carolina. Presenters are needed for spring conference sessions from 1 to 1 1/2 hours and 1-3 hour live webinar presenters as well as our full day seminars which are usually broken up to 3 or 6 hours.
Educational topics may include but not be limited to:
- Leadership/Management
- Marketing/Sales/Public
Relations - Technology in Assisted Living
- Staffing/ HR/Operations
- Motivational
- Regulatory & Compliance
- Risk Management
- Resident Care
- Activities
- Dining Services
- Clinical
- Memory Care/Dementia
- Legal Topics
Specific Requests include:
- Interviewing/hiring
- Preventing burnout
- Life/work balance
- Education vs. marketing of product
- Scheduling tips
- Staffing suggestions
- Panel of caregivers for a discussion -Peer panels
- Trends in management for todays employees
- Employee engagement – how to improve
- Psych services for resident (what to do)
- Creating energy with managers to achieve team goals
- Lead generating/advancing with maybe % of how many tours/leads/move in’s needed to make revenue with statistics from previous quarter?
- Behavior skills
- Understanding influence
Other speaker requirements:
- To work closely with the Conference Committee and Executive Director and meet all deadlines.
- To make no substantial changes to content, format, audio/visual needs, room set-up, identity or number of presenters without prior approval from SCALA.
- To design and provide high-quality PowerPoint presentations if applicable, in electronic format, by the deadline given and provide SCALA a copy of the presentations.
- To give SCALA permission to audio and/or video record their session if needed and to allow photos of the presentation event to be taken for the purpose of using on the SCALA website and/or newsletter and other printed or digital material used by SCALA marketing.
- To respect SCALA as the sponsoring organization with either positive or neutral comments from the platform. Please note that we will provide for each session:
- Laptop, Screen, Projector, Sound (Speakers), Wireless internet, Wireless Microphone
