Is your conference experience one that hurts your participants' brains or one that helps their brains learn? In other words, is your conference brain-adverse or brain-friendly? Does the experience align with how your attendees' brains work? Or does it work against the brain's natural systems, shutting it down from learning? Two Critical Conference Factors To Consider Two of the most critical conference factors that you need to consider when evaluating whether it's brain-adverse or … [Read more...]
Helping Conference Participants Move From Superficial Knowing To Understanding
Have you ever walked out of a conference education session and said, "Now I understand," and then can't remember the main point? Sure you have. You've been a victim of superficial knowledge. You have a false sense of security that you "got it." Then when you try to talk about it, you can't remember the main point. It seems lost. Forgetaboutit Imagine the following scenario. You and a friend decide to watch a movie together. You've already seen the movie and agree to watch it again. As the … [Read more...]
Ten Learning Shifts For Conferences, Events And Associations
To paraphrase cognitive scientist and author Cathy Davidson: Our nonprofit institutions, for the most part trade and professional associations as well as professional societies, are acting as if the world has not suddenly, irrevocably, cataclysmically, epistemically changed. Learning Is Changing Learning is changing. Anyone. Any time. Anywhere. By the end of 2011, 2 billion people will be connected to the web. That could be 2 billion predators or 2 billion initiators, depending upon your … [Read more...]
Where Is The Conference Revolution Headed Next?
Like potter's hands on clay, social technologies continue to shape our world. We are witnessing one of the greatest cultural revolutions in some time. It's impacting everything from our personal lives to our families to our work to our relationships. The Social Network Era has arrived. From Things To Ideas Society has shifted from a focus on the industrial age to a focus on ideas. Things like factories and equipment can be an albatross around the neck of business owners. Even Wall Street has … [Read more...]
Are You Corrupting Your Education Sessions?
Less is more. Too much, too fast, it won't last. That's a favorite adage used by some educators. The underlying concept is that you can present more and faster. But your listeners will simply forget more and faster! Overloading The Mind Organizations and conference planners are often pressured to offer more presentations and content. More, more, more is the customers' cry, not just the lyrics of a disco song. Pushing more content in a fixed time only burdens the mind. It guarantees … [Read more...]
Are Conferences Flushing Education Dollars Down The Toilet?
Companies spent more than U.S. $125.88 billion in 2009 for training, including conference education. (ASTD 2010 State Of Industry Report) And less than 10% of what employees are taught sticks. (Influencer: The Power To Change Anything, VitalSmarts) That's $113.29 billion dollars wasted, flushed down the toilet. What Really Matters The top two reasons people attend conferences are education and networking. They want to improve their professional lives and meet other likeminded … [Read more...]
Engineering Education Strategies for Next Generation Conferences and Events
This is not your Grandma's conference learning strategy. Traditional conference strategies of attendees sitting passively, listening to a talking head is out. Seeing your conference attendees as participants, co-creators, experts and advocates is in. In the digital age, people are learning in new ways that are both communal and autonomous. They contribute to Wikipedia, comment on blogs and teach themselves programming. They follow links and discuss issues in online chats. All of these acts are … [Read more...]
Four Principles For Planning Brain-Friendly Annual Meetings
My post for ASAE’s Acronym’s “Big Ideas” month for association bloggers. What if associations provided brain-friendly annual conferences? If you wanted to create a conference environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like today’s conferences, meetings and workshops. If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would design a full day of lectures in … [Read more...]
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