We've been researching how effective learning happens for decades. Yet most meeting & classroom practice is astrology, rather than astronomy.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2020/10/most-classroom-practice-astrology
We've been researching how effective learning happens for decades. Yet most meeting & classroom practice is astrology, rather than astronomy.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2020/10/most-classroom-practice-astrology
The most important reason people go to conferences is to usefully connect with others around relevant content. Here are five reasons to change conferences.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2018/12/five-reasons-change-conferences
For better event outcomes, how can we maximize the likelihood that attendees will make good resolutions and keep them?
One day, participant-driven and participation-rich formats will become the norm for events. Until then, remember that words are not enough.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/participation/2014/09/sometimes-words-are-not-enough
Some stories have a dark side. Should we support those storytellers among us who use stories for immoral and unethical ends?
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2017/01/stories-have-dark-side
Most meeting planners think that conference session topics must be preplanned. Instead, build a program that reflects actual wants and needs.
A perfect description of leadership for meetings: "Leadership is helping build the structure and then protecting the space to do meaningful work."
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/leadership/2019/02/leadership-meetings
Passive conference programs are past their prime, because we now possess tools to make fundamental meeting change happen
Meetings are a mess. The dominant paradigm for sessions is broadcast: a lecturer and listeners. Here's how they got that way.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2014/07/meetings-are-a-mess
A mythodology is an erroneous but commonly held belief about how something should be done. Here are nine mythodologies about conferences.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2018/05/nine-conference-mythodologies
Develop products and services with clients at conferences so company representatives and participants can work on possible future directions and outcomes
Dinner seating — a study. Huge round tables, crowded together, all men, and you can't reach the wine. What else do you notice?
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/02/dinner-seating-study
A false assumption: Supporting meaningful connections with other attendees is not the conference organizers’ job.
Destroy the conference to save it! If we try to save conferences by keeping them the way they've always been, we'll destroy them.
Here's how to create amazing panels, where everyone has the opportunity to be up on stage, rather than passively listening.
Can meetings where no one says a word exhibit significantly different interpersonal dynamics? After my third silent meditation retreat, I say: Yes they can!
How can we make conferences better? Here are two suggestions, plus my comments, by Samantha Whitehorn of ASAE's Associations Now.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2013/06/make-conferences-better
Human process technologies can fundamentally improve your events at far less cost and in ways that a new device or app cannot. Don't reinvent the wheel!
Meetings are a mess. The dominant paradigm for sessions is broadcast: a lecturer and listeners. Here's how they got that way.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2014/07/meetings-are-a-mess
An interview with journalist Jeff Jarvis highlights some of the fascinating parallels in the ways that journalism and events are evolving