Part 1: The Conference Program is Dead! Long Live the Conference Program! CHAPTER 1: Meetings that aren’t What if you went to a meeting and nobody met? So what’s new in this book? CHAPTER 2: Why you need to crowdsource […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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! 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 […]
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 […]
Some testimonials about Adrian Segar’s conferences, facilitation, designs, and writing provided by participants, clients, and fans over the last years:
Adrian describes simple successful workshops that create memorable learning experiences and connections.
Adrian shares his perspective on the deterioration of the quality of meeting industry conferences over the last five years.