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The function of such meetings is primarily top-down : effectively communicate management objectives, answer questions, and get employee buy-in. As a result, many conference attendees have not encountered these designs before and have not experienced how effective they can be in creating valuable connections and learning with their peers.
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An event that: Asks potential presenters to submit pre-event proposals for sessions isn’t an unconference. Includes breakout sessions as well as presentations isn’t an unconference. [No, When this doesn’t happen (sadly, most of the time in my experience) the conferencedesign, no matter how good it is, suffers.
Their expertise can, therefore, be shared with participants via traditional presentations. Interactive conference sessions allow more opportunities for participants to share specific complicated problems and get targeted advice. Sadly, traditional lecture-style sessions are only good for solving participants’ obvious problems.
Prolonging the misconception, as BizBash implicitly does, that meetingdesign is principally about sensory design is slowing the adoption of fundamental and innovative process design improvements that can significantly improve our meetings. Instead, let’s broaden our conceptions of what meetingdesign is.
After I talked about my meetingdesign work with pioneer tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference, the testing community somehow adopted the term peer conference for their get-togethers. Can you see why software testers like Lisi think that peer conferences rock?!
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