SAVE International - Society devoted to the advancement and promotion of the value methodology
Call for Conference Workshops

48th Annual Conference
The Theme: Discovering "Value Added" Strategies
June 9 - 12, 2008
Silver Legacy Casino Resort
Reno, Nevada USA



SAVE International, the premier international society devoted to the advancement and promotion of the value methodology (also known as value engineering, value analysis or value management), is now organizing the pre-conference training program for its annual conference. Our training sessions, to be held prior to the conference, will be geared to the needs of our members and other attendees interested in value-related education. This includes SAVE approved Module I and II training.

Workshop Rating Criteria

When submitting your proposal to provide pre-workshop services, please ensure that you have addressed each of these criteria elements in detail.  All workshops will be judged using the same criteria.  The level of detail provided will have a direct impact on the success of your submittal.  The review team can only review your submittal based on the information provided, not on personal experience or knowledge.  Please make sure the information you provide adequately covers each criteria element so that it can be judged effectively.

The performance will be measured using the following measures:

5 = Exceptional
4 = Very Good
3 = Average
2 = Minimum Standards
1 = Below Standards

The following lists the criteria and the definition of the criteria.

Marketability Will this course attract several attendees; is the workshop limited to one type of discipline (i.e. construction, manufacturing); will SAVE benefit financially?
   
Enhancement to Value Methodology Does this keep with or enhance the value methodology; does it offer unique opportunities within the value methodology?
   
Presentation Skills of Presenter Dynamic speaker(s); holds audience attention; provides audience participation; audience members want to return to hear speaker again.
   
Prior Experience in Delivering this
Specific Workshop
How many times has the instructor delivered this topic; are there reference materials provided for how previous presentations were rated?
   
Course Content/Quality Ease of understanding by target audience; clarity of materials; content relates to the abstract; use of materials after the conference.
 
Proposal Instructions :
  • Please fill out the submission form carefully and completely. Author submissions must meet the input limitation requirements indicated. Responses which exceed these requirements may not be fully considered during the judging process.
  • If you do not know the answer (or if there is no answer) to a required query, then type the phrase Not Applicable into the text field for that query.
  • You can make changes even after you have submitted your proposal by re-submitting your proposal. You can resubmit your proposal as many times as necessary before midnight of the deadline. We will retain only the last submission from each application. The deadline for submitting conference workshop proposals is 11:59 PM on October 15, 2007.
  • Press the SUBMIT button at the end of this submission form.