Our Preoccupation With Solutionitis, Hammers And Nails September 25, 2018 by Jeff Hurt If all you have is a hammer, everything else looks like a nail. The hammer nail analogy is a common business idiom. It describes the bias that we bring to solving problems based on our personal experience and background. Well, hammer meet nail. Nail says to hammer, “Hammer, meet screwdriver, pliers, wrench, saw and the … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , attendee curiosity, fixing things, hammer and nails, participant perspective, problem solving, solutionitis, understanding your target market
Great Questions Define Great Conference Experiences September 15, 2016 by Jeff Hurt It is much more effective to provide opportunities for conference participants to solve their own problems, then telling them how to solve it. (Paraphrase Dr. A. Gidget Hopf, President & CEO of The Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired—Goodwill Industries.) Conference organizers automatically assume that if someone is attending their event, they expect the … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , better conference experiences, collaboration, conference best practices, curiosity, learning design, problem solving, questions
Problem Solving: Getting Unstuck And Thinking Out Of Corners January 20, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Problems are things that don’t work the way we want them to. These can be as simple as having something you depend on break or as broad as a situation where there is a big gap between where you want to be and the current reality. Whether problems are full disasters or small inconveniences, they … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , problem solving, Wicked Problems
