If there’s something strange in your conference-hood Who you gonna call? (paradigm busters) If there’s something weird And your event don’t look good Who you gonna call? (paradigm busters) I ain’t afraid of no paradigm I ain’t afraid of no paradigm (Adapted from songwriter Ray Parker Jr. Ghostbusters lyrics.) Who You Gonna Call? Paradigm Busters Our cognitive frameworks—our mental models and paradigms—shape our thinking, behavior, operations and success of our conferences. The … [Read more...]
Conference Innovation Through Paradigm Busting
A strong driving force lies just beneath what you do on a daily basis. It is the unspoken, unrecognized, and unquestioned assumptions that steer your thinking, decisions and actions. These views developed over time and through education, experiences and interactions with others. These mental models are deeply embedded in our conference planning and management practices. We often become prisoners to our mental models. They cage our thinking and doom us to experience our own personal looped … [Read more...]
Challenging Our Conference Mental Models To Build Future Effective Events
How do we think? And just as important, how and what do we think about our conferences and events? How do we understand our conference planning processes, its underlying assumptions, and our customers, partners, exhibitors, and stakeholders? How do we create knowledge about our conferences that serve as our cognitive maps and meaning structures during the planning and execution stages? What is the result of our conference assumptions and perceptions? How do we anticipate the needs and … [Read more...]
