Smart Meetings
JANUARY 30, 2019
Real meetings are all about content,” he says. You can skip just about any other part of a meeting—a venue, a meal, even a speaker and still be productive, but if there isn’t relevant content, then it isn’t a meeting.”. The power of meetings depends on the human dynamics they are capable of unleashing.
Conferences that Work
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
I’m indebted to Martin Sirk for sharing remarkable information about an 1828 conference designed by the German geographer, naturalist, and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Read what follows to discover that Humboldt was also a meeting designer way ahead of his time! Martin Sirk Modern meeting design!
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Conferences that Work
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Community versus audience I began my first book with the research finding (and common observation) that people go to conferences to network and learn. My later books (and many posts on this site) have emphasized the superiority of active over passive learning. Active learning occurs almost exclusively in community.
Conferences that Work
JUNE 4, 2018
But the growth of the network era , where leaders and workers need to connect outside the workplace in order to stay up to date professionally and to be open to new and innovative ideas, is creating a shift away from traditional hierarchical power models. When consulting, one of my biggest meeting design challenges is to get boss buy-in.
Conferences that Work
MAY 20, 2024
I was your guy if you had a problem with personal computers, flaky local area networks, or database systems. Improving Conferences That Work I designed and facilitated my first peer conference in 1992. I ran them in my spare time for thirteen years before writing my first book. I made them free to download.
Conferences that Work
AUGUST 24, 2020
Here are five meeting design books I especially recommend. In an outrageous display of chutzpah , I wrote three of these books. [If Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Intentional Event Design ( ebook or paperback ).
The MICE Blog
MARCH 11, 2021
A common example is booking websites. The gamification strategies on these websites endeavour to make us book as soon as possible. It’s not about fun but to make us book.’. We used meeting design to do that, which already had some gamification elements to it. And we really wanted to bring that online.
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