For all of you who are using the holidays to hone your PDW proposals, here are a few tips to consider:
1) Remember that PDWs are development workshops and not another outlet for paper presentations or symposiums. Please think hard about what the development goals are. While you are not obliged to do so, you can draft learning objectives to indicate what the outcomes of attending your PDW would be. Any submissions that do not make clear the development part will have a hard time at getting through.
2) Be clear which audience you are aiming at. Are you creating your PDW for junior scholars or senior scholars? Do you aim at colleagues who are not knowledgable about the specific topic and who will use the PDW to get a first introduction, or is the PDW aimed at experts in the topic to push the boundaries? Is this PDW created for ONE scholars who will use it to expand their horizon or do you want colleagues from other divisions to get to know ONE topics and consider expanding into our field?
3) Ask yourself why you submit to ONE rather than the other divisions. While many topics are obviously cross-disciplinary it helps if you tell a specific story that engages with the ONE audience. For example, if you plan to talk about a theory or method that you consider to be new, tell us how this theory/method is relevant to ONE issues and how it will help us do better research on e.g. environmental management, corporate sustainability, etc.
4) In terms of timing remember to leave ample time for interactive parts of the sessions.
- If you have a panel, make sure that you do not overload it with "talking heads", make sure to select a small number of relevant speakers. While you give them enough time do not assign them 10 minutes slots each which will eat up your PDW time.
- Plan in enough time for the panel to interact with each others' opening statements. It helps if the panel members know each other and/or have been briefed about the specific purpose of the panel and the other panelist statements ahead of time. Plan for 1-2 Skype calls in May/June to plan ahead. Here as well as during the PDW the facilitator will be essential. Show how the facilitator will make sure that all panelists get enough time to interact with each other and stay on topic.
- Allow for meaningful Q&As from the audience. Don't just leave a total of 5 min for this. If the panelists have something to say, then presumable the audience will want to react to that. (If no Qs come you may want to "plant" one or two colleagues to get the Q&A going.)
- Finally, while not all PDW need this it is a good idea to plan for break-out roundtable sessions where PDW participants work in groups on the PDW topic with one panel members assign dot each group. If you want this make sure to ask for the appropriate room.
- TIMING: There are no official limits on timing, but the above indicates that you do not want to err on the low side. At the same time, the longer your sessions the more likely participants are going wander in and out do to competing PDWs.
5) Consider a pre-registration link for those who want to dig deeper.
- While this is not required, you can consider a pre-registration survey link (e.g. Qualtrics, SurevyMonkey etc) in your PDW announcement where colleagues can indicate interest. To be clear pre-registration is *not* required by the AOM or ONE, but it can help you manage expectations about who will attend.
- If you do so, be clear what the pre-registration achieves and also make *explicitly* clear that you still allow and encourage walk-ins who have not pre-registered.
- If your room ends up being overrun you can use the pre-registration to decided who gets a seat.
- If the round table part of the sessions allows for working on specific issues of participants you can for example assign pre-registered participants to certain tables / panelists.
6) Examples for how to use the pre-registration:
- If your panel aims at developing teaching abilities you may ask in the pre-registration for people to submit their syllabus. At the printable stage you can then ask pre-registered participants to briefly present their syllabus and then have the assigned panelists comment on how the topic of the PDW could be best applied. For the walk-ins this means a more specific and relevant discussion.
- If you panel aims at developing research paper writing skills you can ask in the pre-registration to have work in progress submitted. Here panelists can use the roundtable phase to give illustrative feedback to the pre-registered partzconats. Walk-ins will still benefit from this more than a broad unstructured discussion.
- If you deal with research methods, pre-registration may ask to submit data that would be discussed as an example.
7) Diversity matters: We encourage PDW submissions teams to be diverse in terms of e.g. gender, nationality, home university, as well as containing a mix of junior and senior scholars. So please make sure to not keep your PDW teams too homogeneous.
8) Expectation management: We do not know how the AOM will deal with PDWs in 2024, however, in the past we have been given an acceptance rate that we at ONE have to live up to. Expect that this rate will be somewhere in the area of 50%. However, this number can be higher or lower depending on how many PDW submissions the AOM receives overall.
Good luck with preparing your PDW! If you have any questions feel free to send me an inquiry to kho.msc@cbs.dk. I am happy to look at this between 4-6 January. Note that this is not required and that it does not affect the likelihood that you will be accepted.
Best regards on behalf of the ONE team
Kai Hockerts
ONE Division Program Chair Elect
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Kai Hockerts
Copenhagen Business School
Frederiksberg
+45 3815 3175
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