You can’t make people change. But you can create an environment where they choose to. Peer conferences provide such environments.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/09/cant-make-people-change
You can’t make people change. But you can create an environment where they choose to. Peer conferences provide such environments.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/09/cant-make-people-change
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.
Avoid the common mistake of choosing a venue before designing a meeting. Instead, involve an experienced event designer early.
Designing trust into conferences turns events from transactional into transformative. Here are six practices that reliably create cultures of trust.
How can we incorporate exercise into event programs? Four suggestions: walking maps, standing-in-place exercise, walking sessions, and Grab!
Designing trust into conferences turns events from transactional into transformative. Here are six practices that reliably create cultures of trust.
A reprint of the start of Kelsey Ogletree's CONNECT article "How We Learn: Books That Changed Meetings" about my first book
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2014/01/books-that-changed-meetings
The most popular of the in-person sessions I design and facilitate is The Solution Room. Here's how to run The Solution Room online.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2020/11/run-solution-room-online
Healthcare professionals want participant-driven events. Yet 36% have never been asked to provide input into any agenda or program.
I was honored to be included on MeetingsNet’s annual Changemaker list, which "recognizes 20 outstanding meetings professionals…"
Whenever possible, avoid squaring the circle of a room set design. Here's what to do when you can't use circular seating layouts.
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
The architecture of assembly influences what happens at events. Room sets affect the quality of democracy, sharing, & equality participants experience.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2017/04/architecture-assembly
The Association for Software Testing issued a free guide to creating peer conferences. I contributed suggestions and it's well worth a look!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2020/01/free-peer-conference-guide
You can't please everyone, so get used to it. Try to create events that work for everyone? You'll likely get one that works for no one.
Here's my letter to every event technology company trying to sell me stuff. Please read it, folks—what I describe is far too common!
Reduce Chinese-style self-censorship by participants at your meetings, by including agreements at the start
A glossary of 38 conference participation techniques that I cover in my book "The Power of Participation".
While facilitating, I try to remember that we are all different. Though this is challenging work, it engenders rich rewards.
"How old are you?" can be an awkward question. Here are safe ways for a group of meeting participants to share their "age".
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2020/02/how-old-are-you