The Berlin Change Days were launched in November 2009 with the aim of bringing together consultants, managers and other practitioners who are passionate about positive change in individuals and organizations. Keynotes and workshops deal with very different aspects of change, e.g. new, unusual approaches, methods and tools. We use an open format which allows for different, creative ways of presenting the topics. Our vision is to contribute to people’s learning about how to start a positive change process in their organization, community, and maybe in their life.

How can we work together to apply new scientific discoveries to meetings? I was just reviewing a long list of research studies issued this week through Science Digest and posting a few that related to meeting planning and learning to the Meeting Support website. Every week there are many scientific studies that have practical implications to the Architecture of meetings. I am afraid that we miss too many opportunities for improving the effectiveness of meetings and are slow to adopt beneficial practices because we do not have the time or resources to review and apply these new discoveries.

ScienceDaily (June 1, 2010) — Can you help you? Recent research by University of Illinois Professor Dolores Albarracin and Visiting Assistant Professor Ibrahim Senay, along with Kenji Noguchi, Assistant Professor at Southern Mississippi University, has shown that those who ask themselves whether they will perform a task generally do better than those who tell themselves that they will.

Wash Away Your Doubts When You Wash Your Hands ScienceDaily (May 7, 2010) That's the key finding of a University of Michigan study published in the current (May 7) issue of Science. The study, conducted by U-M psychologists Spike W. S. Lee and Norbert Schwarz, expands on past research by showing that hand-washing does more than remove the guilt of past misdeeds.

Creating an environment which is brand sensitive and helps accelerate the objectives of your event is key. De Otter Creators offer a truly creative approach in the field of live communications specialising in the creation, development and direction of effective live communication concepts, which always have their roots in the customer's original marketing strategy.

Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains for design and evaluation toolkit for training and learning. Cognitive Affective Psychomotor Domains Bloom's Taxonomy, (in full: 'Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains', or strictly speaking: Bloom's 'Taxonomy Of Educational Objectives') was initially (the first part) published in 1956 under the leadership of American academic and educational expert Dr Benjamin S Bloom.

Summary Report from an OECD-CER Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark As there are 34 000 classified emotions, the question arises as to how are teachers supposed to recognize and deal with the emotional states of their students, when most of the time the students don’t even know what they are feeling themselves..... Is it possible to develop a coherent framework for dealing with emotions that does not produce confusion?

PARTICIPANT AT IMEX 2010 TECHTAP May 25-27, 2010. Discover the new IML device with built in microphone, texting and of course the voting (ARS). A new bundle of interactivity in the hands of the meeting participants…

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