Constrained Collaboration Can Derail Conference Improvement April 16, 2015 by Jeff Hurt Collaboration – it’s one of the buzzwords of business today. Collaboration is when people work together to achieve a goal. Multiple individuals from different departments work together to accomplish a task or project. Evan Rosen in his book The Culture of Collaboration says “[Collaboration is] working together to create value while sharing virtual and physical … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference organizer, conference planning, conference planning team, constrained collaboration, culture of learning, learning organization, meeting planner, meeting professional, strategy
Pivoting Away From Past Procedures To New Conference Horizon Returns April 15, 2015 by Jeff Hurt Your current conference planning and improvement procedures have its roots in industrial revolution models. We are still designing our conference in the exact same way that companies designed their manufacturing production process, to paraphrase Dave Gray author of The Connected Company. We are trying to imitate the industrial age to make our conference networking, programming … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference organizer, conference planning, conference planning team, culture of learning, learning organization, meeting planner, meeting professional, strategy
Triple Loop Learning, The Loop Of Doom And Conference Transformation April 14, 2015 by Jeff Hurt Are you really, really good at what you do? Sure you are. You’ve probably mastered your discipline and expertise. You may even be one of the best conference organizers in the world. Meetings And Conference Success Those meeting professionals that are almost always successful at their work rarely experience failure. And those that have rarely … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference best practices, conference improvement, conference organizer, double loop learning, meeting professional, organizational learning, single loop learning, triple loop learning
Implementing Double Loop Learning For Conference Improvement April 9, 2015 by Jeff Hurt Most professionals, like you, are really good at single loop learning. We have a mental map that we use for conference improvement. We follow standard, prescribed routines to solve typical conference problems. That’s single loop learning. (BTW, single and double loop learning applies to any type of organizational improvement. I’m applying it to conference improvements.) … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference best practices, conference improvement, conference organizer, double loop learning, meeting professional, organizational learning, single loop learning, triple loop learning
Helping Smart Planning Teams Learn So That Their Conferences Prosper April 7, 2015 by Jeff Hurt As conference organizers aspire to succeed in tougher and progressively more complex environments, they’ve got to resolve one basic and major quandary: Success today depends upon learning. We can’t continue to do what we’ve always done and expect different results. We’ve got to learn new ways “to conference,” so to speak. Success today depends upon … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference organizer, conference planning, conference planning team, culture of learning, learning organization, meeting planner, meeting professional, strategy
