Meeting Support Institute

Music’s power has been both recognised and documented, certainly since the time of the Ancient Greeks. The power of face-to-face meetings, as opposed to communication by various other means - even aided by a battery of technological developments – is also widely accepted. 

The social and cultural identity of teenagers is largely intertwined with their music; music is capable of providing joy and interest right through to the grave, soothing the sick and enhancing the lives of the elderly. Why, therefore, is music not extensively used before, during and after meetings?  This paper explores the effects which music can have in context such as meetings, and in its presentation, practical demonstrations will be given, and sound examples played, from a wide variety of genres.

Use your animal instincts to dish up a visual feast for your delegates. Katherine Simmons reports: Like most of the animal kingdom, human beings are visual creatures. Put quite simply, our lives depend upon it. In the wild world of meetings (it's a jungle out there) many unfortunate delegates find themselves trapped in a room bombarded by slide after slide of text. Lost in a wilderness of words where their voice cannot be heard, these poor souls will probably go on to suffer that most painful affliction, death by PowerPoint. Those who survive to the end of the session may develop memory loss, forgetting key messages and possibly why they were actually there in the first place. Do your delegates resort to survival tactics to get through your meetings?

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