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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
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
Management have desired outcomes for the meeting: e.g. developing new products and services, communicating changes in company strategic goals, training and incentivizing sales teams, implementing successful product launches, etc. So when should you use the Conferences That Work design? I thought you’d never ask.
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Endless Events
JUNE 21, 2019
“It’s working smarter, not necessarily working more” In the end, it’s all about communication and understanding the other person. But on the matter of inclusion at events, our host Tahira Endean sat down with Maarten Vannest e of the Meeting Design Institute. In this case, the other gender.
Endless Events
OCTOBER 19, 2018
Event professional turned full-time blogger Irina Graf has created an event industry networking and destination focused blog with an international view. Conferences That Work is the creation of conference design and facilitation legend Adrian Segar. Plan Your Meetings. The MICE Blog. Velvet Chainsaw Consulting.
Social Tables
APRIL 17, 2019
100% of event professionals believe communication among their teams could be better. In this survey, planners told us that many details change up until the last minute, communication is not shared across the entire team, there’s not enough consistency in documented event details, and communication isn’t concise enough.
Conferences that Work
JULY 19, 2021
A hub and spoke meeting is one where there’s a central hub meeting or event that additional groups (aka “pods”) of people join remotely. Hub and spoke is an event network topology. In-person meeting : participants are physically together. The hub event and each pod may be either in-person or online.
Convene by PCMA
AUGUST 2, 2024
In response to our sacred cow question, meeting designer Adrian Segar posted on X that we should “get rid of expensive keynotes, predetermined schedules of lectures, large events that try to cover everything with no support for tribes to find each other.” Sound familiar? Among them: Urgency is an investment. Risk creates opportunity.
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