Tweet Meeting professionals are long overdue to retire learning style myths in favor of evidenced-based education. (So are ASAE and the Convention Industry Council-CIC-which promotes unscientific learning styles in the CMP Handbook!) It’s time for conference organizers to bridge the gap between learning research and practice. It’s time to bring the research into the conference planning…
Tag Archive: Education
Are Conferences Flushing Education Dollars Down The Toilet?
Tweet Companies spent more than U.S. $125.88 billion in 2009 for training, including conference education. (ASTD 2010 State Of Industry Report) And less than 10% of what employees are taught sticks. (Influencer: The Power To Change Anything, VitalSmarts) That’s $113.29 billion dollars wasted, flushed down the toilet. What Really Matters The top two reasons people…
Creating A Conference Pleasure Rush
Tweet Relevant conference content should be the crack cocaine of conference attendees. It should create euphoria, an alertness and extreme craving for more. The right content for the right audience can create a pleasure rush. When relevant content is presented within applicable context, attendees’ brains get juiced. It creates the conference pleasure principle! Stroking…
Why Your Conference Is Stuck In A Rut
Tweet The greatest wonder in the world lies in a three-pound mass of cells, with 1,000 trillion connections and the consistency of oatmeal, located in our skulls. The human brain. It controls your annual meeting. It controls your planning. It controls your attendees’ onsite actions. It has more impact on your planning and onsite implementation…
Life Long Learning: In Pursuit Of Our Dreams
Tweet What d’ya know? Not enough. We can never know enough in the modern workplace. At least, that’s how I feel. Lifetime Learning A Path To Success Good education serves as the foundation for productive work. Lifetime learning offers a well-marked path to success. It’s up to us to follow it. On average, Americans spend…
