LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Learning Meetings and Conferences in Practice
Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
Learning meetings and conferences are about maximising the attendees' learning. Too many conferences are packed with PowerPoint presentations that achieve too little because they render attendees passive and bored. A learning conference engages attendees in active interpretation of what they hear and helps them share knowledge with each other.Learning meetings must be facilitated carefully, so attendees feel they are being seen and heard.
When silence isn’t golden
Posted November 21st, 2008 by hilde
Human beings just aren’t hard-wired for traditional meetings. Katherine Simmons talks to professor Ib Ravn, who evolved the format to create a natural environment for communication.
In previous articles in the Anatomy of a Meeting series, we’ve delved a little deeper into the failings and the foibles of the adult learner. We have a concentration span of just half an hour if we are lucky and if we’re talked at too long without being asked our opinion, we’ll probably just rebel and ignore whatever the speaker says anyway.
In previous articles in the Anatomy of a Meeting series, we’ve delved a little deeper into the failings and the foibles of the adult learner. We have a concentration span of just half an hour if we are lucky and if we’re talked at too long without being asked our opinion, we’ll probably just rebel and ignore whatever the speaker says anyway.
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El belga "despierta"a los profesionales de la reuniones
Posted November 19th, 2008 by administrator in
Article about Maarten Vanneste's book "Meeting Architecture a manifesto" in eventos magazine of July - August 2008.
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The powerful link between creativity and play
Posted November 14th, 2008 by maarten.vanneste in
Tim Brown: The powerful link between creativity and playAt the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn't).
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from www.ted.com
The science of scent
Posted November 14th, 2008 by maarten.vanneste in
Luca Turin: The science of scentWhat's the science behind a sublime perfume? With charm and precision, biophysicist Luca Turin explains the molecular makeup -- and the art -- of a scent. Watch this talk >>
from www.ted.com
The moment when social media became the news
Posted November 14th, 2008 by maarten.vanneste
James Surowiecki: The moment when social media became the newsJames Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube video, blogs, IMs and txts carried the news -- and preserved moving personal stories from the tragedy.
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Can kids teach themselves?
Posted November 14th, 2008 by maarten.vanneste in
Sugata Mitra: Can kids teach themselves?Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his "Hole in the Wall" project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. Given this, he asks, what else can children teach themselves and each other?
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Meeting Architect
Posted November 1st, 2008 by administrator in
Article about Maarten Vanneste's book "Meeting Architecture a manifesto"
in Meetings - Autumn 2008
in Meetings - Autumn 2008
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The Handbook of Large Group Methods:
Posted October 25th, 2008 by hilde
Large Group Interventions are methods used to gather a whole system together to discuss and take action on the target agenda. That agenda varies from future plans, products, and services, to redesigning work, to discussion of troubling issues and problems.
The Handbook of Large Group Methods takes the next step in demonstrating through a series of cases how Large Group Methods are currently being used to address twenty-first-century challenges in organizations and communities today, including:
The Power of Unconscious Thought: Does It Result in Creative Problem-Solving?
Posted October 4th, 2008 by Anonymous
No doubt many of us have all experienced a situation where, after long hours of trying to solve a certain problem, we give up, and go get a break, only to come back and solve the problem within moments. This appears to be a somewhat commonplace situation. However, the science behind it is much more complex.According to the authors of the study – Professor Adam Galinsky of the Kellogg School of Management, Chen-Bo Zhong from the University of Toronto and Ap Dijkstererhuis of Radboud University Nijmegen – unconscious thought results in creative problem-solving in a two step process.
But this is not as simple as having an “Aha!” moment and moving on.
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