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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? Scenes from a peer conference A slideshow of images from the Third Annual Vermont Vision For A Multicultural Future peer conference, held at the Mount Snow Grand Summit Resort November 6-7, 2014.

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Five reasons NOT to use a Conferences That Work meeting design

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The function of such meetings is primarily top-down : effectively communicate management objectives, answer questions, and get employee buy-in. Much as I would like to tell you that participant-driven and participation-rich event formats are common these days, it just ain’t so. Valuable peer learning and connection takes time.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

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Finally, there are conferences that are entirely experiments! In the meetings world, the most well known are the series of EventCamps that were held around the world between 2010 and 2014. These were volunteer-run, meeting experiments that explored a wide range of meeting and session formats and technologies.