The Brain As A Gambler And Conference Camouflaged Listeners February 7, 2011 by Jeff Hurt If we wanted to create an education environment that is directly opposed to what the brain is good at doing, we would design something like today’s conference lectures. Listening to a 45-, 60- or 90-minute lecture floods the working memory with information. We can’t store everything we hear in our memory. The Brain As A … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , active learning, active participation, adult learning, conferences, engagement, lecture, meeting planning basics, presentation best practices, presentation strategies
Myths, Facts, Challenges And Tips With Learning From Lectures February 3, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Myth: Our minds are like sponges that just soak up information which creates learning. Many of us grew up believing that myth. We believed that we could sit in a lecture and the speaker’s information would magically transfer to our brains. We thought we could automatically recall everything the teacher said. Without studying, our test … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , active learning, active participation, adult learning, conferences, Education & Adult Learning, engagement, lecture, presentation best practices, presentation myths, presentation strategies
Tuning Into Your Conference Participants So They Do Not Tune Out January 26, 2011 by Jeff Hurt In the right hands and delivered on key, the spoken word can be a powerful force. It can move mental mountains. Part emotional Red Seas. Awaken sleepy souls. Change stubborn minds. Persuasion: A Powerful Tool To Create Change Conferences are ultimately about persuading audiences to change. It’s about transforming conference attendees into powerful participants that … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conferences, meeting planner, presentation best practices, presentation strategies
Stuff Your Conference Speakers Need To Know: The TED Speaker Commandments November 16, 2010 by Jeff Hurt I love these ten TED speaker commandments. If you’ve not seen them before, make them part of your conference speaker packet! The TED Speaker Commandments Thou shalt not simply trot out thy usual shtick. Thou shalt dream a great dream, or show forth a wondrous new thing, or share something thou hast never shared … [Read more…] Filed Under: Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , adult learning, conferences, delivery, Education & Adult Learning, engagement, presentation best practices, presentation strategies, speaker
Raining On Your Presentation Parade: Facts Do Not Persuade October 20, 2010 by Jeff Hurt It felt like a scene from Groundhog Day. I was stuck in a time warp loop. Presenter after presenter after presenter started with the same phrase, “I have no financial conflict of interest to disclose.” Then each one launched into a diatribe of data, diagrams, facts and research. Dark, boring PowerPoint slides flashed before my … [Read more…] Filed Under: Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , conferences, content, delivery, Education & Adult Learning, presentation strategies, speaker, Speaker Emerging Practices
Nine Essentials To Keep Your Presentation From Becoming A Corpse October 19, 2010 by Jeff Hurt Presentations are the economy of most conferences and business today. Yet most presentations are boring. A majority of them are just uninteresting. They lack humanness, life, passion and emotional connections. Today, many conference participants feel trapped by a parade of monotonous, dreary, insipid presentations. It doesn’t take long to recognize a corpse. It takes even … [Read more…] Filed Under: Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , conferences, content, delivery, Education & Adult Learning, engagement, presentation strategies, professional development, speaker, Speaker Emerging Practices
Five Deadly Presentation Killers September 10, 2010 by Jeff Hurt Quick, name the last presentation that you attended. Now, name two things you learned from that presentation. Can you do it? If you can’t recall at least one or two things from that presentation, was it worth your time and investment? Now try this. Name the last speaker or presentation that you heard that totally … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , brain-friendly conferences, brain-friendly meetings, presentation strategies, Speaker Emerging Practices
Stomaching Long Conference Lectures Is Out! Active Attendee Participation is In! April 14, 2010 by Jeff Hurt 14 Presentation Techniques That Encourage Maximum Learning, Participation And Memory Retention Today, many conference attendees will no longer tolerate the same old lectures, the conference committee’s poorly-planned-everything-for-everyone-panel or sessions that have no real meaning to their work. Younger generations will not endure classes that could have been learned at their desks in 30 minutes and … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Experience Design Tagged With: , active learning, association, conferences, content, delivery, Education & Adult Learning, increasing memory retention, lecture, presentation strategies
