Finally: Fundamentals on facilitation in a book. from Maarten Vanneste on Vimeo.

Let’s take a trip back to your junior high days. If you’re like me, immediately your palms begin to sweat. Your throat tightens. Your heart starts racing and your mouth gets dry as you remember those trying teen years. Imagine that today is that day! It’s the big day when you have to deliver your first speech. Your mind is racing. “Will I remember everything to say? Did I wear the right clothes? Will they laugh at me? Will they boo me?” You say to yourself, “Remember what Ms. Smith said. View your audience in their underwear and you won’t be as nervous.”

We know people get a lot more accomplished when they can collaborate and work together.

Yet most conferences make attendees sit passively in sessions. Or they are forced to connect in a speed networking session. Rarely do we tap into the brain wealth of attendees and allow them to collaborate.

Likewise, often conference attendees retreat into intolerant positions of non-listening. In today’s world of complex challenges, we long for over simplistic explanations that will solve our problems.

You are what you eat. What you see is what you get.
These idioms are familiar to most of us.
Here’s a simple truth: What you think about is what you remember!
The implication for your conferences, events and meetings are substantial.

Our Memory Is Like A Video Recorder?

Andrea Driessen, Chief Boredom Buster at No More Boring Meetings, has been serving the speaking industry for over 20 years.

She and her team transform status-quo meetings into engaging, rip-roaring events that boost productivity and motivation. Audiences are fully awake and able to learn all they need to be more effective and productive.