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The production line approach to meeting design

Gallus Events

I have always used the metaphor of a production line to explain the need for meeting design. The production line approach to Meeting Design. Able to deal wth different models using the same systems. But throw in a gala dinner, or a golf day and the systems really struggle to cope. And neither will my events.

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5 Trends That Are Changing Meeting Design

PCMA Convene

Businesses that are setting up smart systems and underlying infrastructure to collect information, make sense of it, and translate it into tangible action are increasingly coming out on top. It demonstrates the idea of celebrating local surroundings in meeting design. Orchestrated Serendipity. Kelsey Ann Rose).

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Venue Ventilation: Reasons for Planners to Pay Attention

MeetingsNet

A meeting designer used a carbon-dioxide meter in all the spaces he moved through while attending a recent conference. In late May, Adrian Segar attended a meeting-industry leadership summit in San Juan, Puerto Rico. What he learned could help other planners as they make sure they are fulfilling their duty-of-care obligations.

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How OpenAI Has Misappropriated My Copyright: ChatGPT’s Land Grab

Conferences that Work

I am resigned to the fact that OpenAI ‘s Large Language Model ChatGPT has scraped every blog post I’ve written here (over 750 posts in the last 13 years—around half a million words) so it can parrot my thoughts about meeting design, facilitation, and other topics.

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The declining influence of leadership positional power in a network society

Conferences that Work

There’s no longer any reason to pick either positional or network era power; we can create systems that incorporate the best features of both. Here’s Harold Jarche again: “…it is up to all of us to keep working on new structures and systems. This is perhaps the only great work to be done for the next few decades.

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Six reasons why unconferences aren’t more popular

Conferences that Work

Conveners of well-designed unconferences explain, in general terms via pre-event communications what the unconference will be like and how to prepare for it. One way to introduce conference newbies to a recurring unconference is to use a buddy system. To conclude When designed and executed well, unconferences tend to endure.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

Obvious problems (“known knowns”) have known solutions, often called “best practice” For example, how do I: Determine what employee data to store in the human resources system? Implement a customer relationship management system for my veterinary circus animal practice?