The workshop that wasn’t
Last week, my friend Traci B wrote to me about a workshop that wasn’t. “You’ll love this…I went to a 4 hour morning workshop at this digital conference. The speaker said, this will be interactive because no one wants to […]
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27 years of peer conferences
Good things come in threes. Though I usually overlook anniversaries, I noticed one this morning. The first peer conference I convened and designed was held June 3 – 5, 1992 at Marlboro College, Vermont. So, as of today, the community […]
How to improve your facilitation: an example
How can you improve your facilitation practice? Here’s an example that illustrates what I do: a mixture of continual improvement, lifelong learning, and Kaizen. An example from The Solution Room I’ve been facilitating The Solution Room, a popular plenary session, for […]
Why I love conference facilitation and design
Here’s an example of why I love conference facilitation and design. After setting up a Personal Introspective this morning (25 minutes), I turned over what happens to the small groups. Watch the listening and involvement of every person as I […]
Stay on time!
Stay on time! Though it’s clearly sensible to keep a conference running on schedule, we’ve all attended meetings where rambling presenters, avoidable “technical issues”, incompetent facilitation, and inadequate logistics have made a mockery of the published program. So one of […]
Leadership for meetings
What might leadership for meetings look like? Let’s turn to Harold Jarche for inspiration: “Those doing the work are often the only ones who really understand the context. Leadership is helping build the structure and then protecting the space to […]
Testimonials
Some testimonials about Adrian Segar’s conferences, facilitation, designs, and writing provided by participants, clients, and fans over the last years:
Create memorable learning experiences and connections at simple workshops
Adrian describes simple successful workshops that create memorable learning experiences and connections.
Something is rotten in the state of meeting industry education
Adrian shares his perspective on the deterioration of the quality of meeting industry conferences over the last five years.
Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need
“This book unlocks the hidden power of high performance gatherings. Adrian has given us a formula that can change the world — a simple and powerful way to harness humanity’s progress.” —David Adler, CEO & Founder BizBash Media Do your […]