Adrian Segar

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@ASegar@mastodon.social · Joined ⁨Nov⁩ ⁨2022⁩

I #design & #facilitate #conferences that become what attendees want & need
🔸 ❤️ to facilitate #connection, #sing, #dance, #meditate
🔸 Author of 3 books on meeting design
🔸 17 years of 900+ posts on #MeetingDesign #facilitation #consulting #LifeLessons #FacilitatingChange, being trapped in an elevator with a Nobel Prize winner & other #stories at conferencesthatwork.com
🔸 Brit living happily in #Vermont USA since 1978
🔸 #Nonprofit board member junkie
🔸 Recovering #academic

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Adrian Segar@ASegar@mastodon.social

What are the fairest rules to use when running meetings? Here's what political philosopher John Rawls thought would be right for society. It works for meetings too!

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#meetings #MeetingDesign #FairestRules #agreements #TheFourFreedoms #eventprofs #assnchat

The fairest rules for meetings. Photograph of a card showing the six rules Adrian Segar uses for meetings: The Four Freedoms and two other agreements. The card is laying on a notebook, together with a pen and glasses.
The fairest rules for meetings. Photograph of a card showing the six rules Adrian Segar uses for meetings: The Four Freedoms and two other agreements. The card is laying on a notebook, together with a pen and glasses.
Adrian Segar@ASegar@mastodon.social

Are you a specialist or a generalist? Here are some advantages I've experienced of being a generalist in a world full of specialists.

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#consulting #secrets #generalist #advantage #specialist #ProblemSolving #PeopleProblems

specialist or generalist: illustration of a quote by Dr. William J. Mayo " A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less." Photo attribution: Flickr user environmental_illness_network
specialist or generalist: illustration of a quote by Dr. William J. Mayo " A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less." Photo attribution: Flickr user environmental_illness_network
Adrian Segar@ASegar@mastodon.social

I hope that one day we will hold the party after the war. If the war ever ends. Even if it ends, there will be more wars and more parties.

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#PartyAfterTheWar #hope #war

Photograph "Two British sailors and their girlfriends wading in the fountains in Trafalgar Square on VE Day" from the collection of the Imperial War Museums.
Photograph "Two British sailors and their girlfriends wading in the fountains in Trafalgar Square on VE Day" from the collection of the Imperial War Museums.
Adrian Segar@ASegar@mastodon.social

Stuff breaks all the time. We need to remember this and keep one thing in mind. It's the repair that's important.

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#StuffBreaks #imperfection #repair

stuff breaks: photograph of two women repairing a bicycle on a cobbled street. Photo attribution: Flickr user pedrosek
stuff breaks: photograph of two women repairing a bicycle on a cobbled street. Photo attribution: Flickr user pedrosek
Adrian Segar@ASegar@mastodon.social

Here's a worthy initiative to create standards for safer events: The Public Health Event Badging Standard. Sign the Public Health Pledge!

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#meetings #PublicHealth #safety #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat

Illustration of The Public Health Pledge, creating standards for safer events
Illustration of The Public Health Pledge, creating standards for safer events
Adrian Segar@ASegar@mastodon.social

Why I left Twitter after 15 years, the rise and fall of the platform under Elon Musk, and why Mastodon is now my social media home

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#LeavingTwitter #SocialMedia #Mastodon #ElonMusk #BlueskyVsMastodon

Still from the 1995 movie "Leaving Las Vegas" of alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter Ben Sanderson (Nicolas Cage) sitting in a Las Vegas cocktail lounge, staring at a Martini as he drinks himself into oblivion. A speech bubble says "Goodbye Twitter".
Still from the 1995 movie "Leaving Las Vegas" of alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter Ben Sanderson (Nicolas Cage) sitting in a Las Vegas cocktail lounge, staring at a Martini as he drinks himself into oblivion. A speech bubble says "Goodbye Twitter".
Adrian Segar@ASegar@mastodon.social

In 1975, I was trapped in an elevator with a Nobel Prize winner. I'll never forget what I learned from the experience.

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#LifeLessons #story #trapped #elevator #NobelPrizeWinner #learning #eventprofs

Trapped in an elevator. An elevator at CERN: Image attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marc_buehler/ / CC BY-NC 2.0
Trapped in an elevator. An elevator at CERN: Image attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marc_buehler/ / CC BY-NC 2.0
Adrian Segar@ASegar@mastodon.social

People who attend a live event give us something we can never give back: their time.

Too often, we spend it on activities that could happen without bringing people together.

Live events can create relationships, conversations, decisions, learning, and experiences that couldn't happen nearly as well any other way.

Ask: What can happen because these people are together that couldn't happen nearly as well any other way?

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#LiveEvents #EventDesign #MeetingDesign

A large conference audience sits facing a speaker on a stage beneath an enormous clock, its blurred hands suggesting the rapid passage of time. Warm stage lighting illuminates the room, with city views visible through tall windows on both sides.
A large conference audience sits facing a speaker on a stage beneath an enormous clock, its blurred hands suggesting the rapid passage of time. Warm stage lighting illuminates the room, with city views visible through tall windows on both sides.
Adrian Segar@ASegar@mastodon.social

I'm seeing evidence that for-profits are muscling in on association events. Is my experience an anomaly—or the start of a long-term trend?

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#associations #events #eventprofs

A cartoon of two people in business suits walking towards each other in front of a conference venue displaying a banner "The Association Conference". The woman on the left is smiling and carrying a briefcase labeled "Revenue Opportunities". The man on the right is nervously clutching a folder labeled "Community Mission".
A cartoon of two people in business suits walking towards each other in front of a conference venue displaying a banner "The Association Conference". The woman on the left is smiling and carrying a briefcase labeled "Revenue Opportunities". The man on the right is nervously clutching a folder labeled "Community Mission".
Adrian Segar@ASegar@mastodon.social

Skeptical that a peer conference can build an optimum program for your conference? Attend or organize one yourself and see!

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#meetings #EventDesign #PeerConference #unconference #BestProgram #events #eventprofs

build an optimum program: photograph of a woman having a hard time riding a bike. Image attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bike/ / CC BY-SA 2.0
build an optimum program: photograph of a woman having a hard time riding a bike. Image attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bike/ / CC BY-SA 2.0
Adrian Segar@ASegar@mastodon.social

"What went well?" How what happens in today's schoolrooms can teach adults the power of effective sharing in the workplace.

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#learning #education #classroom #AppreciativeInquiry #WorkplaceSharing #OrganizationalChange

effective sharing: two teachers in a Marlboro Elementary School classroom prepare tea for their students. Image attribution: Amy Kolb Noyes
effective sharing: two teachers in a Marlboro Elementary School classroom prepare tea for their students. Image attribution: Amy Kolb Noyes