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How to help meeting design clients figure out what they really want and need

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Recently, a client asked for help designing a new conference. 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!

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Venue Ventilation: Reasons for Planners to Pay Attention

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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. With the meeting-room doors open, my meter typically showed readings between 500 and 600,” he noted.

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How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom

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I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. Because participants love these meetings ! Now the covid-19 pandemic has forced meetings online. In person meetings have vanished overnight.

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Three ways to make it easier for attendees to participate

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This is all very well, but it begs the question: what can meeting designers do to make it easier for attendees to participate more at meetings? Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Seth Godin, What Would Happen. Here are three things we can do.

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Participate! Lab at The EVENT MPI, April 4-6, Montréal

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Organizer Karen Norris , who invited me, summed up The Event as follows: “We pride ourselves on the fact that our conference is not a typical, didactic conference and we are an ‘experience.'” Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Participate!

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Something is rotten in the state of meeting industry education

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Over the last five years I’ve heard increasing concern from the meeting professionals community about the deterioration of the quality of our national industry conferences. In my case, the demand for the meeting design and facilitation services I provide has been exploding. (In

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Why switching to active learning is hard — and worth it

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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. The majority of college STEM teachers choose traditional teaching methods.