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
Sadly, in my view, some meetings are primarily about asserting and demonstrating status. If your conference attendees come from a culture where power and influence is firmly controlled by the people in charge, a peer conference will be a poor fit, as the powers that be will be threatened by a format that does not reinforce their dominance.
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Conferences that Work
DECEMBER 16, 2019
They go against hundreds of years of cultural programming. Yet as I entered the world of research and academia I realized I was also curious about the social and organizational cultures I found there. Meeting design and facilitation. When my first book was published, I was discovered by the meeting industry.
Conferences that Work
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
Presentation versus interaction at meetings. But our meeting designs, in large part, haven’t changed to reflect this shift in cultural awareness. In the 1960s, we finally began focusing on interaction versus presentation in our culture. That was half a century ago. It’s time to practice what we preach.
Conferences that Work
AUGUST 16, 2021
And it made me think about meeting design. And, me being me, I thought about what Marcy had just said in the context of meeting design. And meetings are no exception. The art and craft of the meeting designer. It’s a meeting designer’s job to create these contextual layers.
Conferences that Work
OCTOBER 11, 2021
All meeting design needs to recognize this reality. The things we do reflect our culture. And the organizations we’ve constructed incarnate our culture. All too often, top-down institutional culture leads inexorably to hierarchical meeting formats. Institutions.
Smart Meetings
JUNE 11, 2021
What can meeting professionals learn from this popular pop-up social media craze? While Van Gogh’s art was groundbreaking in his time, it has long entered the popular consciousness as a cultural touch stone. Tell a Vivid Story. Audiences flocking to immersive shows are looking for something else—a story, an escape, a spectacle.
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