Why Audiences Detest Presenters That Abuse Or Avoid PowerPoint [Revisted] September 19, 2013 by Jeff Hurt Revised and updated from original post about presentations and images published on October 25, 2011. Presentations are the business currency of today. PowerPoint is often the legal tender of those presentations. We trade and share PowerPoint presentations like baseball cards, stamps and money. And SlideShare is the largest online community for sharing great presentations! When … [Read more…] Filed Under: Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , conferences, presentation best practices, presentation strategies, speaker tips
How To Be An Invisible, Successful Rock Star Panel Moderator August 16, 2013 by Jeff Hurt Good panel moderators wear camouflage. We’ll not really. But they blend in so much with our panel experience that we often don’t even notice them. Why? Successful moderators keep the panel focused on attendees and their problems, not the panelists. They drive the panel discussion towards solutions that meets the audiences’ needs. Five Moderator Rules … [Read more…] Filed Under: Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , panel discussion, presentation best practices, speaker tips
Overcoming These Six Barriers To Audience Resistance To Participation July 24, 2013 by Jeff Hurt Even when you’ve adequately communicated the transition from passive attendee to active participant, some audience members will still resist. You’re challenging their comfort zone of passively sitting in a lecture. You are now asking them to engage on a different level which requires being fully present and doing something. And you’re challenging their past school … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Experience Design Tagged With: , adult learning, adult learning principles, adult learning strategies, brain science education, brain-friendly conferences, conference best practices, conference education, learner-centric, meeting planning best practices, participant-centric, presentation best practices
Presenter Tips For Audience Discussions July 19, 2013 by Jeff Hurt “Nobody can’t teach nobody nothing,” says O. P. Kolstoe, author of College Professoring. We need better presenters, as our conference attendees often suggest. Or we need better attendees as our speakers often state. I think Kolstoe hit the bull’s-eye. As a presenter, so also a learner–the conference attendee. (paraphrased Joseph Lowman, 1995). If there is … [Read more…] Filed Under: Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , active learning, conference best practices, conferences, Education & Adult Learning, master presenters, presentation best practices, presentation strategies, presenter, speaker tips
Aligning Conference Schedules With Neuroscience To Avoid The Attendee Overwhelm Epidemic March 14, 2013 by Jeff Hurt Too many conferences foster attendee information overload. The plethora of presenters pushing information at warp speeds cause fragmented attention, overburden brains and data excess. It’s a silent epidemic that cause stagnate mental engagement. And our conference schedules stretch attendees in ways that may have bigger implications than just unhealthy eating. They cause mental disconnection. Seven … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Experience Design Tagged With: , adult learning, adult learning strategies, andragogy, associations, conference best practices, conferences, presentation best practices
Why Participant-Centered Education Rules March 11, 2013 by Jeff Hurt Participant-Centered Education from Jeff Hurt Our current association adult education is a victim to an outdated teacher- and expert-centered model. It has its roots in puritan beliefs that wisdom is evil and the less we know, the more innocent we are. To succeed we must move out of the didactic traditional training box. We must … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , adult learning, adult learning strategies, andragogy, associations, conference best practices, conferences, presentation best practices
Why Speakers And Attendees Resist Participant-Centered Education February 25, 2013 by Jeff Hurt Once you as the conference organizer are convinced that you want to move your education to more learner centric approaches, with a focus on the attendee as participant and learner, you may discover that your speakers do not respond with the same zeal. In reality, speakers and attendees may resist the new approach both passively … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , adult learning, adult learning principles, adult learning strategies, brain science education, brain-friendly conferences, conference best practices, conference education, learner-centric, meeting planning best practices, participant-centric, presentation best practices
Getting Started With Brain Friendly Presentations February 21, 2013 by Jeff Hurt Ideas that the brain thinks about and accepts usually lead to some type of action. That seed of a concept, thought or insight can transform you life. Ultimately, learning involves change. When you learn something new, your brain changes and then our attitude or behaviors also change. When you refuse to adapt to change, you … [Read more…] Filed Under: Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , adult learning, adult learning principles, adult learning strategies, brain science education, brain-friendly conferences, conference best practices, conference education, meeting planning best practices, presentation best practices
Fostering An Extremely Powerful Tool At Your Conference: The Session Discussion February 14, 2013 by Jeff Hurt Can we talk? I certainly hope so! Two-way communication is an extremely powerful tool that your conference needs to foster. Discussions are critical to cement learning in the brain. Without peer discussions, your conference education sessions are nothing more than audio voices blowing in the wind. Let’s Talk Talk! We can’t get enough of it. … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , active learning, active participation, adult learning, adult learning principles, adult learning strategies, conference best practices, conferences, lecture, presentation best practices
Five Strategies To Improve The Common Conference Lecture January 18, 2013 by Jeff Hurt All learning IS experience. Everything else is just information. ~ Albert Einstein Talking is a critical part of that learning experience. We talk so we can understand. We talk so we can remember. We talk so we can learn. But who does the majority of talking at a conference and who does the majority of … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , active learning, active participation, adult learning, adult learning principles, adult learning strategies, conference best practices, conferences, lecture, presentation best practices
