Top Creativity Tips To Think Outside Your Box August 30, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Ever been stuck and feel like you can’t get out of your box? Maybe even backed into a corner? I have. And I suspect you have too. Routine Thinking Leads To Being Stuck I believe that often we do the same thing so much that we can’t see another way of proceeding. Our minds really … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Experience Design Tagged With: , adult learning, adult learning principles, brain science education, creative process, creativity
Seven Tips To Jump-Start Your Creativity August 3, 2011 by Jeff Hurt I consider myself fairly creative. I am not more creative than you. I’ve just spent a lot of time practicing creativity. And I’ve surrounded myself with people who constantly encourage me that I can be creative. It helps that my parents, family and teachers always encouraged me that I was creative. Believing that inner voice … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , adult learning, adult learning principles, brain science education, creative process, creativity, creator
Demystifying The Creative Process August 2, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Remember kindergarten when we used to play with finger paints, watercolors, crayons, chalk, colored pencils, markers and other fun things. We’d paint with great abandon not worried about what anyone would think about our pictures. And we’d have fun. Our teachers would hang everyone’s art on the bulletin board. They would ask us, “Tell us … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , adult learning, adult learning principles, brain science education, creative process, creativity, creator
Are You A Right-Brained Creative? August 1, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Where does creativity come from? No, it doesn’t come from the strike of lightning bolt or a handful of hallucinogenic drugs. Although the movie Gothic depicting English Romantic poets Mary Shelley and Lord Byron taking drugs on a rooftop in the midst of a thunderstorm might lead you to think so. Dramatic, yes! And far … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , adult learning, adult learning principles, brain science education, creativity, creator, learning myths, learning styles exposed
Dear Association Executive, That Is Not Education! July 28, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Dear Association Executive: Education is in your mission statement, right? If not, it’s probably in your strategic plan. Isn’t it? (If not, it should be!) How Much? So let me ask you an important question: If education is in your mission or strategic plan, how much of your budget is dedicated to educating your members? … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , adult learning, association best practices, association issues and challenges, conferences, Education & Adult Learning, learning manifesto
We Are All Visual Learners July 26, 2011 by Jeff Hurt How much do you learn from your sight? Most scientists agree that about 75% of your learning occurs through your vision. Looking To Learn Consider infants. They pick up behavior traits by observing people around them. They process and interpret facial expressions and gestures. From a quick glance, they can tell if their parents are … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , adult learning, adult learning principles, conference best practices, conferences, learning myths, meeting planning best practices
Life Long Learning: In Pursuit Of Our Dreams March 9, 2011 by Jeff Hurt What d’ya know? Not enough. We can never know enough in the modern workplace. At least, that’s how I feel. Lifetime Learning A Path To Success Good education serves as the foundation for productive work. Lifetime learning offers a well-marked path to success. It’s up to us to follow it. On average, Americans spend just … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , adult learning, conferences, Education & Adult Learning, learning, meeting planning best practices
The Rise Of Informal Learning: Is Your Organization Capitalizing This? February 16, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Most organizational education is face-to-face in formal training programs. Or it is online in boring elearning text-based courses. Or it may occur at conferences where we try to condense as much content as possible and pour it into our brains. Filling our heads with facts, information and knowledge is ineffective. People forget most of what … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , adult learning, informal learning, workplace learning
Why The PCMA Learning Lounge Worked February 10, 2011 by Jeff Hurt “What if no one shows up? What will we do?” It was 6:45 am on a Monday morning in Las Vegas. We wondered if anyone would actually show up when PCMA’s Convening Leaders’ Learning Lounge opened at 7 am. As the final countdown started, we were about to find out first hand if people would … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Experience Design Tagged With: , active learning, active participation, adult learning, conferences, engagement, Learning Lounge, PCMA11
Your Memory: The Engine And Bottleneck Of Learning February 8, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Myth: The more we sit and listen to conference lectures, the more we learn. Fact: Our memory is both the engine and the bottleneck of learning. The more information we receive without thinking about it, the more we corrupt our learning. Three Critical Factors Of Working Memory Working memory is the part of your mind … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , active learning, active participation, adult learning, conferences, engagement, lecture, meeting planning basics, presentation best practices, presentation strategies
