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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.
Far too much money is spent on meeting glitz at the expense of good meetingdesign. “There’s no budget” I’ve noticed over the years that every meeting has a budget for F&B. There’s often a budget for a dramatic big-name speaker or two. Seth Godin makes an analogous point in this post….
Designed by an event planner, this company curates fun virtual experiences in addition to their signature gift boxes. Give speakers, committee leaders, or your team a feel good moment by purchasing a bracelet with a favorite animal to track in the wild. A great engagement gift for influencers too! Cheers In A Box.
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Because they make assumptions that what has to happen is what happened at just about every meeting their authors ever attended. They assume that meetings will consist of sessions with speakers on a stage. They assume that the core purpose of a meeting session is to transmit content to an audience.
An entrepreneur since he was only 18 years old, Maarten has over 35 years of experience in meetingdesign. He’s an author, a speaker, a trainer. Ready to hear all about the ground-breaking magic of multi-hub meetings? In 2006, Marteen started the MeetingDesign Institute. These people are so in demand.
And yes, I admit it, during the second day of my vacation while enjoying the harmonies I hear, I’m jolted to think about religious meetingdesign…. Religious services are thought to be around 300,000 years old — by far the oldest form of organized meeting that humans have created.
The event industry unduly focuses on large meetings. Our trade magazines mainly report on big events, the ones with big-name speakers and eye candy razzle-dazzle. For too long, we’ve equated a meeting’s “success” with its size. It may help to remember that in reality, most meetings are small meetings.
Still heating up is the ongoing battle of women against sexual harassment in the entertainment industry and the lack of female keynote speakers for one of the biggest consumer and tech trade shows. Controversies won’t die even for the latest Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea because of its proximity to North Korea.
According to Felix, the term ‘participant experience design’ is a work in progress. It was established based on the theory of meetingdesign, a well-known ‘tool kit’ used by planners worldwide. These elements — curiosity, openness, flow and willingness to learn – can be planned with the methods of ‘meetingdesign.’
Tahira Endean tweets about the intersection of experiential, immersive meetingdesign and technology. Dahlia is an event technology evangelist, speaker and educator. Events Uncovered is an innovative space for event experts to meet, discuss, learn and share their knowledge of the event industry. TahiraCreates. ChipConley.
This (slightly edited) interview by JT Long appeared in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine. I invented the format by accident 26 years ago when there were no expert speakers to invite for a conference on administrative computing issues in small schools. What led to writing the book, Conferences that Work ?
At a traditional meeting, however, perceived status roles rarely change significantly during the event. This leads to a number of problems, which I described in my first meetingdesign book: Conferences That Work. Speaking truth to power often involves questioning what a speaker has said.
All of the above is driving the generation’s expectations for meetings and events, ultimately redefining the meeting industry entirely. Attendees want more control over the meeting agenda. Gone are the days of static schedules, where speaker after speaker shuffle on stage while attendees remain seated.
Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meetingdesign. Most meeting presenters still lecture. And most meeting session presenters resort to lecturing as their dominant session modality. .” Superstar lecturers and motivational speakers.
Also solicited/accepted are keynote/motivational speakers who get paid large fees and provide exciting presentations with, in my experience, little or no content of long-term value to the meeting attendees. In my case, the demand for the meetingdesign and facilitation services I provide has been exploding. (In
All of the above is driving the generation’s expectations in regards to meetings and events, ultimately redefining the industry as a result. Control over the meeting agenda is moving to attendees. Gone are the days of static schedules that shuffle through speaker after speaker while attendees remain seated.
A case in point: During the years that Juraj Holub, a digital marketing and branding expert, worked as chief meetingdesigner for interactive meeting software tool Slido, he used LinkedIn to connect with the contacts he made at the conferences he attended all over the world. We are passionate about events and meetings.
Although engaging attendees is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to enhance the quality of a meeting, there is still a lot of resistance, according to Bo Krüger, meetingdesigner, facilitator, trainer and speaker and owner of Moving Minds.
Nine expert speakers (one remote) broadcast training sessions from the main studio in Rome, with 180 remote participants. In a post on his Conferences that Work blog , conference designer Adrian Segar writes: “If you want maximum learning, interaction, and connection at a meeting, small meetings are better than large meetings.
This coming June will mark my 30th year of designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. So I designed the workshop as an “ Ask Adrian Anything ” about meetingdesign and facilitation. I’ve shared the why? and the details of how I typically run this format here.
PSFG has a deep appreciation for the importance of meetingdesign. We also had them confirm any facilitators or speakers during this creating time, which made the voting/scheduling piece easier for us. Who here could you enlist as an ally or speaker or support person? I copied the details below. Full group share outs.
Some seating issues we heard back about in our seating survey included participants having trouble understanding the layout, not being connected enough to the speaker, and needing more spatial/seating flexibility for networking. Traditionally, event teams have seated attendees based on elements such as relationships, titles, or industry.
This fundamental shift changes the way we think about everything from our meeting spaces to our speaker content. Moving from static to active meetings. Time to rethink meeting environments, using spaces and room sets where people are best able to learn and network. Speaker: Roger Haskett. Moderator: Sue Hatch.
Although I have good reasons to champion meetingdesigns where the participants get to choose what they want and need to discuss and learn rather than a program committee , there is invariably a place for some predetermined presentations at conferences. Read the full article at Conferences That Work.
To execute a successful virtual event, our team was tasked with developing a strategy that enhanced meetingdesign, optimized the attendee’s experience, and increased attendee engagement. There also needs to be someone seamlessly transitioning between speakers and breaks. Virtual Event Platform and AV Partner.
1992: I organize a conference where there are no expert speakers available (it’s a new field, there are no experts). I quickly discover the size and interest of the meetings industry. Due to interest and demand, I become a meetingdesigner and facilitator of participant-driven and participation-rich meetings.
The first speaker, Farshida Zafar, L.L.M., We used meetingdesign to do that, which already had some gamification elements to it. These themed nights will be two hours long and will also include a keynote speaker, presentations and panel discussions. Why use gamification? And we really wanted to bring that online.
Fun fact: the testing community often uses my term “peer conferences” for their get-togethers, due to a chat about meetingdesign I had with tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference.) Most meeting conveners concentrate on feedback about meeting content (“great speakers!”)
Industry Performance Trends Attendee Experience Trends Meeting Destination Trends Event Technology Trends MeetingDesign Trends. The unprecedented rise in demand for meetings and events will continue this year, with CWT Meetings & Travel predicting a robust 5-10% growth in demand. MeetingDesign Trends.
We’re tapping the talent of PCMA’s staff so they can share the design thinking and process behind the innovative experiences they create for PCMA events. Most meetingdesigners know that beginnings and endings matter, but struggle to craft meaningful experiences that resonate with attendees.
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Such workshops routinely meet the outcomes they’re designed to achieve: creating useful and memorable learning experiences and connections. These workshops are not successful because of the: excellence of a speaker; beauty/novelty of the venue/F&B/entertainment; or extraordinary facilitation.
Paul Nunesdea : And hello, hello, dear viewers, this is a soft start of our third episode in 2024 of Talk to Your Meeting Doctors. As you probably know by now, we are pleased to entertain today our guest speaker Adrian Segar. Lovely to meet you, Adrian. I define myself as a meetingdesigner and facilitator.
MeetingDesign Consider the format that is most likely to achieve the goals of the meeting. Try to understand what people really want (and why), what their goals are and create a rough outline of an agenda. Encourage participation. Most importantly, demonstrate what it means to work in a collaborative environment.
Corbin Ball is an international speaker, consultant and writer dedicated to helping clients use technology more efficiently for improved productivity. also share ways to improve audience interaction on their helpful blog, “where meetingdesignmeets technology” – a front-of-mind concern for most event planners today.
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