Conversations, Collaboration and Chemistry April 5, 2017 by Dave Lutz Judith E. Glaser, an author, business executive, and self-described “organizational anthropologist,” says science has now proven that the chemical nature of relationships, conversations and collaboration is more than an attraction metaphor: it’s a reality. So the quality of our conversations — especially those participants have with others at conferences and meetings — has a direct … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Networking, Experience Design Tagged With: , active participation, brain health, brain-friendly conferences, collaborative intelligence, human network
Specific Strategies To Take Your Conference Full Frontal! March 22, 2017 by Jeff Hurt You can make your conference the purple cow of all conference experiences. That is if you want to be seen as unique and different. So how do you do that? By creating conference experiences that help your participants think smarter! This means designing conference experiences that go full frontal! Going full frontal means engaging the … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , brain friendly strategies, brain health, brain-friendly conferences, brain-friendly meetings, cognitively stimulating, conference best practices, executive functions of the brain, full frontal, higher order thinking skills, lower order thinking skills, neuroscience
Take Your Conference Full Frontal March 20, 2017 by Jeff Hurt It’s time to take your conference full frontal! No, not a full frontal lobotomy. Nor a behind the scenes look at the private parts. It’s time to challenge and encourage your conference stakeholders to focus on engaging their brains at a higher level. It’s time to develop conference experiences that help your stakeholders think smarter. … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , brain friendly strategies, brain health, brain-friendly conferences, brain-friendly meetings, cognitively stimulating, conference best practices, executive functions of the brain, full frontal, higher order thinking skills, lower order thinking skills, neuroscience
Creating Sticky Learning To Combat Our Illusion Of Knowing July 30, 2015 by Jeff Hurt Much of what we take for gospel about how to learn is wasted effort. Learning is grossly misunderstood. The most effective learning strategies are counterintuitive. We believe that attending education and listening to a presenter leads to learning. Just give me the crib sheets, the list of tips, the high level takeaways and I have … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , brain-friendly conferences, conference best practices, conversations, discussions, Education & Adult Learning, lecture, peer-to-peer, sticky learning
Encourage Conference Experiences That Lead To Practice-Rich Lives Not Knowledge-Rich Brains July 29, 2015 by Jeff Hurt Your conference doesn’t have to be the place that only offers expert lectures. It doesn’t have to only offer authorized, approved speeches. Or one-way monologues and panel dialogues. You have the opportunity to pave the way for rich, two-way, peer to peer dialogue. You can create education offerings that provide time for audience elaboration, discussion, … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , brain-friendly conferences, conference best practices, conversations, discussions, Education & Adult Learning, fearless conversations, lecture, peer-to-peer
More Dangerous Assumptions About Your Conference Education Part 2 July 24, 2015 by Jeff Hurt The research* shows that much of what we do in our conference education is actually counterproductive. (*See partial list of research and books at the end of Dangerous Assumptions Part 1 post.) We spend too much of our conference time on delivery of information. The web is a better information delivery model than our events. … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , adult education, adult learning principles, adult learning strategies, brain friendly strategies, brain-friendly conferences, conference education, conference strategy, education best practices, learning myths
Dangerous Assumptions About Your Conference Education Part I July 23, 2015 by Jeff Hurt It’s a very dangerous assumption. We assume that if our speakers are talking, our attendees must be learning. We equate telling from the stage with audience education. Telling does not equal learning. We’ve placed a value on experts talking instead of a value on attendees’ learning. It’s backwards thinking and it’s one of our conference’s … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , adult education, adult learning principles, adult learning strategies, brain friendly strategies, brain-friendly conferences, conference education, conference strategy, education best practices, learning myths
Creating Sticky Learning: Complimentary (Sales Free) VCC Webinar July 30 July 20, 2015 by Jeff Hurt As adults, we are rather lazy learners. Much of what we hold as fact regarding learning is actually illusion. We waste a lot of effort, time and resources with common-sense accepted educational practices that are rooted in intuition, tradition and myth. The most effective learning strategies and education programming are counter-intuitive. We need to build … [Read more…] Filed Under: Ramblings Tagged With: , adult learning principles, adult learning strategies, brain-friendly conferences, conference best practices, conference education, learning
Inject These 5 Education Disruptors In Your Conference January 13, 2015 by Jeff Hurt Brain science is not a fad and neither is online learning. The more we learn about how we learn, the more opportunities we have to provide more meaningful and lasting learning experiences for attendees at our meetings and events. Inject These 5 Disruptors In Your Conference Education Here are the slides from my joint presentation … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , brain-friendly conferences, conference education, learning trends, meeting industry trends, neuroscience
License Attendees To Drive Their Brains To The Streets Of Increased Conference Value December 16, 2014 by Jeff Hurt The majority of your conference attendees believe that their conference learning is all about self discipline. They think that the more conference education sessions that they attend, the more information they can absorb. The only strategy they know is to strive hard and fast to physically hear as many speakers as possible. That intentional effort … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , adult learning, adult learning principles, adult learning strategies, brain-friendly conferences, conference best practices, Event ROI, metacognition, neuroscience
