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Facilitating an online participation-rich workshop in Gatherly

Conferences that Work

This coming June will mark my 30th year of designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. So I designed the workshop as an “ Ask Adrian Anything ” about meeting design and facilitation. Designing an online workshop in Gatherly. I’ve shared the why?

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Working with suppliers and practitioners at meetings

Conferences that Work

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.

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Control versus freedom at meetings

Conferences that Work

As Dee W Hock , founder and former CEO of VISA, put it: Any idiot can impose and exercise control. Any idiot can impose and exercise control. Surprisingly, clinging to control is the easy way out. It takes genius to elicit freedom and release creativity. — Dee W Hock (@deewhock) August 9, 2020.

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5 Tips for Designing Engaging Virtual Meetings

SmartMeetings

Virtual meetings require careful design to keep attendees engaged and deliver value for the hosts. But how do you translate the energy and insights from a face-to-face meeting through a computer screen? Borrow Bonding Exercises from the Ballroom. Quality Eats Quantity for Lunch. Finally, people want to have fun at events!

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Are Online Meetings Reducing Our Collective Intelligence?

Conferences that Work

My second objection concerns the brevity of the research exercises. “Six tasks ranging from 2 to 6 minutes each” simply doesn’t reflect what people with more than a passing relationship do in real-life meetings. This occurred during the first Meeting Design Practicum in Utrecht, The Netherlands: more details here ).

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How to Plan Better Medical Meetings by the Numbers

Smart Meetings

Now that events are going back to in person, how can meeting professionals deliver the same level of detailed success metrics to the executive team about the range of value delivered on the investment? Two veteran meeting designers joined Smart Chat Live!

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The effects of meeting space design

Plan Your Meetings

The simple idea is to make a small notebook, where there is both pre-written key messages and a mix of exercises that invites to either write or draw own thoughts, reflections and ideas. begins when you succeed in getting all of the five elements into your meeting design. The real magic….