How to help meeting design clients figure out what they really want and need
Conferences that Work
JULY 2, 2018
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How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom
Conferences that Work
MAY 11, 2020
I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. Because participants love these meetings ! Now the covid-19 pandemic has forced meetings online. Zoom has rapidly become the dominant platform for online meetings.
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Something is rotten in the state of meeting industry education
Conferences that Work
APRIL 9, 2018
Over the last five years I’ve heard increasing concern from the meeting professionals community about the deterioration of the quality of our national industry conferences. I’ll illustrate with the area where I have most experience: providing education at these meetings.
Three ways to create truly surprising meetings
Conferences that Work
JUNE 18, 2018
Experienced meeting planners know that every meeting has its share of unexpected surprises. Minimizing surprises like CoffeeGate is default behavior for meeting planners. Surprising Meetings But not all meeting surprises are bad.
Three ways to make it easier for attendees to participate
Conferences that Work
MARCH 13, 2017
How do we get people to participate at meetings? Seth Godin describes a desirable meeting mindset: What would happen… if we chose to: …Sit in the front row. Seth Godin describes a desirable meeting mindset: What would happen… if we chose to: …Sit in the front row. Ask a hard question every time we go to a meeting….
Reduce Chinese-style self-censorship at your meetings
Conferences that Work
JUNE 13, 2016
Why mention this on an event design blog? Well, the most effective aspect of China’s online censorship regime illustrates what happens when you don’t incorporate covenants into your meetings. When such freedoms are agreed to individually and as a group at the start of a meeting, ambiguity about meeting behavior dissipates.
Why switching to active learning is hard — and worth it
Conferences that Work
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meeting design. Most meeting presenters still lecture. And most meeting session presenters resort to lecturing as their dominant session modality. There is overwhelming evidence that we can improve meetings by switching to active learning from passive lectures.
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