Director's Issues: Roundtable members become a supportive yet tough peer group who help one another analyze and explore current issues and hot topics. The goal is to help you gain perspective, additional options, and support in addressing your issues. Typical issues might include:

• How to involve staff and board in strategic planning.
• Handling a problem staff member.
• Conflicts between staff, director and board.
• Attracting new visitor segments.
• Responding to a fiscal crisis.

Leadership and management development: Brief presentations including practical, take-home concepts and tools are a part of each session. The content is based on the needs of the members. It covers all the essential elements to help you redesign and lead your museum successfully. Typical topics include:
Understanding your management style and how to balance weak areas.
Building a strong top management team.
Improving coordination and productivity in the exhibit design process.
Restructuring and defining jobs.
Running much better meetings.

• Success Sharing: Members report on successes in managing and improving their organizations. Typical topics include:
• New ways to gain audience input.
• Techniques for working with communities.
• Designing management measurement systems.
• Assessing visitor needs.
• Successful marketing campaigns.
• New initiatives in community involvement.
• Building legislative support.

Reinventing the Museum: The changes swirling around museums today demand more than a wait and see attitude. Museums for the third millennium will be different from museums of the last thirty years. This part of the agenda explores what tomorrow's museums will look like if they respond to the changes already underway in the world. Most directors have solved the easy problems they face. Further improvement will depend upon:

• Insight into underlying causes and closely-held operating assumptions.
• Knowing what to change and in what sequence.
• Focusing on the right problems.
• Learning to understand and manage change and transition.

This aspect of the Roundtable explores museums with redesigned departmental structures, collections open to public access, and other future possibilities such as:

• Collaboration between curators and educators.
• The future of the permanent exhibit.
• Collection costs, accessibility and use.
• Museums without walls.
• Telecommunications and virtual reality in museums.