My advice on navigating the line between planning and worrying—one creates clarity and action, the other fuels anxiety and indecision.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2025/06/planning-worrying
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Here's an innovative conference competition format that neatly and efficiently integrates useful participant-selected learning into an event.
Meetings are a mess. The dominant paradigm for sessions is broadcast: a lecturer and listeners. Here's how they got that way.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2014/07/meetings-are-a-mess
A mythodology is an erroneous but commonly held belief about how something should be done. Here are nine mythodologies about conferences.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2018/05/nine-conference-mythodologies
My advice on navigating the line between planning and worrying—one creates clarity and action, the other fuels anxiety and indecision.
#EventDesign #PlanningVsWorrying #EmotionalIntelligence #newpost
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2025/06/planning-worrying
What's the best way to hold a discussion with hundreds of attendees? A fishbowl sandwich can really get your attendees talking!
When will we wake up about the need to change our conference designs?
My advice on navigating the line between planning and worrying—one creates clarity and action, the other fuels anxiety and indecision.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2025/06/planning-worrying
Two principles for designing conference ground rules. They should 1) increase participants' freedom, and 2) be measurable.
Beware of "experiential" events that are just razzle-dazzle. Instead, design events that provide truly useful and meaningful experiences.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2018/12/experiential-events-razzle-dazzle
How do you crowdsource a conference program in real time? I explain, using the 2017 Haute Dokimazo #unconference in Austin, TX as an example.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2017/08/crowdsource-conference-program-2
My advice on navigating the line between planning and worrying—one creates clarity and action, the other fuels anxiety and indecision.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2025/06/planning-worrying
Avoid Briefer Madness! Ask conference presenters how much time they'll require to effectively deliver desired and needed outcomes.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/04/briefer-madness
Here are two ways to take a hard look at your conference evaluations. You may be surprised by what you find.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/03/look-conference-evaluations
My advice on navigating the line between planning and worrying—one creates clarity and action, the other fuels anxiety and indecision.
#newpost #EventDesign #PlanningVsWorrying #EmotionalIntelligence
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2025/06/planning-worrying
Event design is not just visuals and logistics. Event design is about process design that can significantly improve meetings.
Meeting planners routinely define a creative event as novel decor/venues/food & beverage. We are biased against truly creative event design.
Human process technologies can fundamentally improve your events at far less cost and in ways that a new device or app cannot. Don't reinvent the wheel!
Attendance versus participation. There are more chances than ever to attend a conference, but all of them require participation if you expect them to work.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2014/01/attendance-versus-participation
It's no "Comedians in Cars getting Coffee", but here's my script for Seating while Eating at Meetings
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2018/09/seating-while-eating-at-meetings
