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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? It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That. Conferences That Work goes to Japan! The first Conferences That Work peer conference held in Japan begins today!

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Lessons from Anguilla — Resilience in the Face of Disaster

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Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: A birthday present for you on the 21st anniversary of Conferences That Work What a long strange trip it’s been The first Conferences That Work event was held June 3–5, 1992, at Marlboro College, Vermont. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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Lessons for #eventprofs from an improv and mindfulness workshop — Part 1

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By the end of our time together, I got to know Ellen, Nancy, Nahin, Ellena, Wendy, and Everlyn better in some ways than our Vermont neighbors (and friends), with whom we’ve shared a driveway for over thirty years. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! I’ll. If so, download.

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Five reasons NOT to use a Conferences That Work meeting design

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I’ve run the core Conferences That Work design in a day numerous times, and it’s always a rush. A peer conference design such as Open Space doesn’t need so much time—a few hours can be useful—though it omits some of the features that make Conferences That Work so effective.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

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Respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Vermont? Here are some examples. How should we: Minimize the bugs in our computer software? Get Apollo 13 safely back to earth after an explosion ? Improve our organizational culture? Such problems are complex because we: Don’t really know what questions to ask to start; and.