Conferences that Work
MARCH 15, 2021
Recently, I’ve been appearing as a guest at college event planning and hospitality courses to talk about meeting design. (I Rather than lecture for an hour, I’ve been using an Ask Me Anything (aka AMA ) meeting format. I love to do this. Teachers, please contact me , it’s free!)
Conferences that Work
JULY 3, 2023
Back in 1992 , I developed The Three Questions as a fundamental opening process for participant-driven meetings and conferences. Of course, that’s OK because there are no wrong answers to The Three Questions. ” These people are hesitant to share specific top-of-mind issues or questions they have.
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Conferences that Work
APRIL 11, 2022
First, you need to understand before the meeting what your practitioners and suppliers want, need, and expect. As a meeting designer, if a meeting is going to include both practitioners and suppliers I always ask my clients about the relationship between these groups and their wants and needs.
Conferences that Work
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meeting design. Most meeting presenters still lecture. And most meeting session presenters resort to lecturing as their dominant session modality. . Extensive research supports this observation, especially in college-level science courses ( 1 ? ? ? ? –
Conferences that Work
MAY 22, 2023
Hey everyone, especially educators who teach courses on meetings and hospitality. My ebooks are now available on VitalSource , the largest global supplier of digital course materials to higher education! And, of course, if you or your students prefer, my ebooks are still available for purchase directly from this website.
Conferences that Work
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
At a traditional meeting, however, perceived status roles rarely change significantly during the event. This leads to a number of problems, which I described in my first meeting design book: Conferences That Work. In particular, it removes the—often self-imposed—barrier to asking a “stupid” question.
Conferences that Work
MARCH 28, 2022
Unfortunately, you wouldn’t know this from looking at meeting planning textbooks. The meeting industry has redefined novelty as creativity. A “creative” event design is one with a novel venue and/or decor and lighting and/or food and beverage. Most assume that a meeting planner is all they need.
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