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Design your meeting BEFORE choosing the venue!

Conferences that Work

Clients invariably ask me to help design their meeting after they’ve chosen a venue! Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Related posts: Help Wanted—Venues for my participation techniques workshops! Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Please help me (and hopefully yourself)!

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Free workshop — Experience The Three Questions, Friday, June 26

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I’m leading a free online workshop on Friday, June 26, 12 – 2 pm EDT, that will give you a unique opportunity to experience The Three Questions : in my opinion, the best way to open a conference designed for active learning, connection, and engagement. Related posts: Help Wanted—Venues for my participation techniques workshops!

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Designing 21st Century Conference Learning Experiences And Spaces

Velvet Chainsaw

The Best And Biggest Question To Ask During Your Conference Planning Process. Above all, start your conference design with this major question: Do our conference venue spaces serve as learning spaces? Remember, your conference participants deserve life-giving transformational learning experiences.

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Six reasons why unconferences aren’t more popular

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3—Overlooking the space needs of unconferences Novices who try to hold unconferences invariably underestimate venue space needs. Venue room capacity charts don’t include these designs. The result is that novice-organized unconferences rarely have the venue space they need to work well.

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We are biased against truly creative event design

Conferences that Work

A “creative” event design is one with a novel venue and/or decor and lighting and/or food and beverage. Consequently, planners restrict the entire focus of creative event design to novel visual and sensory elements. Can we overcome bias against truly creative event design?

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Mediocrity Is Your Biggest Conference Competitor

Velvet Chainsaw

So consider these questions: Is your conference designed to give your customers the experience they expect? If you plan to meet their expectation of just one or two takeaways, you’ve already lowered your conference standards to average at best. This means you need to refocus on your conference strategy!

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How to help meeting design clients figure out what they really want and need

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The needs assessment trap Conference design clients who “know what they want” have already decided on their “ why? I understand their perspective, because I also feel the temptation to pin down specifics — number of participants, duration, venue, budget, etc. ” and “ who? ” stage.