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The Secrets Behind Conference Engagement

Conferences that Work

So you’re holding a conference. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida.

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Three ways to make it easier for attendees to participate

Conferences that Work

This is all very well, but it begs the question: what can meeting designers do to make it easier for attendees to participate more at meetings? Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Seth Godin, What Would Happen. Here are three things we can do. Sources for additional information.

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Reduce Chinese-style self-censorship at your meetings

Conferences that Work

When attendees feel safe to share and empowered to ask questions and express what they think and how they feel, what happens at a conference can be amazing. Bonus insight on another relationship between censorship and meeting design: How you may be treating your meeting evaluations like a Chinese censor. to say and do.

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Save $100 on Adrian Segar’s first 1½ day participation techniques workshop!

Conferences that Work

For over 25 years, I’ve been designing and facilitating Conferences That Work : successful, innovative, highly interactive, participant-driven events that leverage attendees’ expertise and experience to create just the conference that participants want and need. I’m excited! Earn CIC education credits.

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Stay on time!

Conferences that Work

Though it’s clearly sensible to keep a conference running on schedule, we’ve all attended meetings where rambling presenters, avoidable “technical issues”, incompetent facilitation, and inadequate logistics have made a mockery of the published program. I can’t think of any situation where this is a plus.

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Benchmarking Association Events

Gallus Events

I had a brilliant day at the Event Strategy Conference in London on the 16th July. However, attending a conference like this allows organisers to do exactly that. Almost all of the attendees across my two sessions organised conferences however almost half of the attendees didn’t run shorter formats.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

What makes attending conferences worthwhile? As I described in Conferences That Work , the two most common reasons for attending conferences are to learn useful things and make useful connections. But there are numerous other ways that conferences provide value to stakeholders. Complicated problems.