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
Leading Others Through Organization Change Requires Effective Brain-Friendly Plans May 18, 2015 by Jeff Hurt Yes, when dealing with change, the details of the change are important. Equally important are the plans we develop to bring others along with the change. We often omit creating a plan that our team can own. We make a barbaric blunder and create a plan about the details of the change. We forget about … [Read more…] Filed Under: Experience Design Tagged With: , brain friendly strategies, brain-friendly meetings, change, change management, leadership, neuroleadership, neuroscience
Breaking Through The Guardians Of Change By Addressing The A In ACE May 15, 2015 by Jeff Hurt How can you unlock the grip of failure on your organization? “What?” you ask. “My organization is not operating at a loss or failing.” Oh, I beg to differ. If your organization strives to achieve status quo, a failure mentality has taken hold. Fear of failure and fear of change are probably your organization’s biggest … [Read more…] Filed Under: Ramblings Tagged With: , brain friendly strategies, brain-friendly meetings, change, change management, leadership, neuroleadership, neuroscience
Brain-Savvy Leaders Foster ACE May 14, 2015 by Jeff Hurt In order to grow, your organization must change. Organizations that refuse to move become stagnate. They become trapped, treading water through a set of regular routines while getting nowhere. Without lasting change, organizations become dull, sluggish and deteriorate. They eventually die, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly. Unfortunately, the majority of organizational change fails, misses the mark … [Read more…] Filed Under: Ramblings Tagged With: , brain friendly strategies, brain-friendly meetings, change, change management, leadership, neuroleadership, neuroscience
Activating Attendee Heart Coherence Thru Intentionally Crafted Conference Experiences November 24, 2014 by Jeff Hurt What type of emotions does your conference experience activate? “Huh?” you say. “My conference is supposed to connect on an emotional level with attendees?” Whether you like it or not, your conference does initiate some type of emotion. Unfortunately, many conference experiences are bland, sterile boring events. They lack passion, enthusiasm and emotional highs and … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , adult learning principles, brain-friendly conferences, brain-friendly meetings, Brain-in-heart, conference best practices, education best practices, heart coherence, neuroscience
Improving Conference Experiences With The Ground Breaking Discovery Of Brain-In-The-Heart November 14, 2014 by Jeff Hurt We’ve all heard people say: “Go with your gut.” “Just follow your heart.” “Trust your instinct.” These colloquial sayings feel more like fuzzy-thinking, sensitive touchy-freely speeches or lyrical metaphors. It’s not normally something that you expect experts to say at a conference. Nor is it something we strive to create in conference experiences. But should … [Read more…] Filed Under: Experience Design Tagged With: , adult learning principles, brain-friendly conferences, brain-friendly meetings, Brain-in-heart, conference best practices, education best practices, heart coherence, neuroscience
Three Levels Required To Build And Support Brain-Friendly Conferences And Events August 21, 2014 by Jeff Hurt You can transform your conference or event into one of the best in world by using brain-friendly strategies. And you can help your event participants transform their personal and professional lives by applying the current science to your event. Three Levels Of Change Require Putting the neuroscience to work for your conference or event requires … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , brain-friendly conferences, brain-friendly meetings, neuroscience
All Brains Use These Four Things To Survive Conference Experiences August 15, 2014 by Jeff Hurt We are born with the capacity for fear and pleasure. Unfortunately, we are not born with the knowledge of what to fear. Or what gives pleasure. We learn those things. Our Brain’s Four Wants At A Conference Our brains survive most conference experiences. Regardless how good or how bad they are. It is rare to … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , adult learning principles, brain-friendly conferences, brain-friendly meetings, conference best practices, education best practices, neuroscience
Your Brain Wants To Avoid Thinking In Conference Settings August 14, 2014 by Jeff Hurt Your brain is built to survive! It’s in the biology and chemistry of your brain to survive at all costs. Survival and protection are at the top of the list when it comes to brain activity. It even outranks thinking in priority. Survival Trumps Thinking Your brain will avoid thinking in order to conserve energy … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , brain science education, brain-friendly conferences, brain-friendly meetings, conference best practices, conferences, education best practices, thinking
