IPMA Wraps up Conference, Celebrates 50 Years

At Monday's opening keynote, magician and author Billy Riggs wowed the crowd with impressive illusions and mind-reading feats while urging managers to "practice people development" at their in-plants. Other conference highlights included two sessions from NAPL Consultant Howie Fenton in which he described some of the tactics of leading in-plants, and a keynote by InfoTrends' Barb Pellow, in which she listed the seven habits of successful in-plants. Also notable was a high-speed panel discussion ("55 Ideas in 60 Minutes") in which four managers of leading in-plants offered their advice, in two-minute commentaries, on topics like metrics, making it easy to do business with the in-plant, new products and services and employee engagement. IPG Editor Bob Neubauer also presented the latest IPG research data (along with a telling video documenting his daily life in the office).