When Your Conference Planning Process Eclipses Your Purpose July 21, 2016 by Jeff Hurt Did you ever play the board game of Chutes and Ladders? The object of the game is to get to the end of the path first. You avoid landing on a chute, which makes you slide backwards. And take advantage of the ladders which help you climb ahead. I played this game a lot with … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference planning, conference planning committee, conference planning team, conference stakeholders
When Committee Bureaucracy Stymies Your Conference Potential December 7, 2015 by Jeff Hurt It is often said that an association’s board of directors is the brain of that organization. Its committees serve as the central nervous system influencing all parts of the body. The conference planning committee is similar to our spinal cord, serving as the internal communication highway between the parts of the body and the brain. … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , association bureaucracy, conference planning, conference planning committee, equipping catalhyst conference committee, nosend, organizational theory, structures
