How to help meeting design clients figure out what they really want and need
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JULY 2, 2018
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Something is rotten in the state of meeting industry education
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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.
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Three ways to create truly surprising meetings
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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.
How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom
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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.
Reduce Chinese-style self-censorship at your meetings
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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.
Three ways to make it easier for attendees to participate
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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….
Participate! Lab at The EVENT MPI, April 4-6, Montréal
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MARCH 4, 2019
After a highly successful debut in 2018, three Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Chapters — MPI Toronto , MPI Montréal/Québec , and MPI Ottawa — have again joined forces to provide cutting edge, innovative, experiential education at The EVENT. I’m excited to present my Participate! Lab at The EVENT , April 4-6, Montréal!
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