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Why our meetings are still full of lectures

Conferences that Work

When the leading candidate for the Mayor of New York City has this take on how people learn, perhaps it’s not so surprising that we’re still sitting through endless broadcast-style sessions at meetings and conferences. Learning researchers and our best teachers and meeting designers have known this for a long time.

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Anca Trifan interviews me about participation-rich meetings and event design

Conferences that Work

Here’s her video and podcast for your viewing and listening pleasure. 07:45 Behind the scenes: How I got into designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. 11:00 What participant-driven and participation-rich meeting design means, and the core components. Thank you, Anca!

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Powerful Panels interview with Adrian Segar

Conferences that Work

During our 25 minutes together, we discussed various panel formats, their value, and how to structure and design powerful panel discussions into the larger context of meetings, conferences, and events. Annotated timeline of the video. 0:00 Introduction. 5:30 When and how to use panels, and why. 8:00 Different panel formats.

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Are Online Meetings Reducing Our Collective Intelligence?

Conferences that Work

New research from Carnegie Mellon has been widely interpreted as concluding that, for example, “Zoom is actually less effective than a phone call” , and “Video conferencing can hurt collaboration” Not so fast. New research about online meetings. But I have no problem accepting their results.

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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. At times, the video stream for some participants on stage (including me) was blank.

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PCMA EduCon Los Angeles 2019

Gallus Events

And the best way to get a grip of texturising content is to look at the principles of meeting design. I know that the idea of scaling the “meeting design” mountain can seem daunting. If you are designing a physical or an online event these simple tips will set you right.

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Exploring the Second Question

Conferences that Work

I’ve used it myself at hundreds of events, and many facilitators and meeting designers have also adopted it as an effective way for attendees to get to learn about each other and uncover what they would like to discuss while they are together.