David W. Jones5h ago

Dear Businessss:

Advice for managers:

Please cancel business meetings more often.

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-canceled-liberating.html

Sincerely,
Me

#business #worklife #meetings #management #advice

Why a canceled meeting feels so liberating

Unless your employer is Lumon Industries, where the "Severance" workday never ends, a canceled meeting can feel like a gift of limitless time. A Rutgers University study published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research explains why: Unexpectedly gaining time alters our perception of how that time passes, which in turn affects how we spend it.

Adrian Segar11h ago

I stopped dancing for 40 years. In 2003, I went to a workshop and danced again. I’ve been dancing ever since.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2015/07/how-i-got-on-my-feet-and-danced-again

#meetings #PCMA #Educon #dancing #story

Adrian Segar17h ago

A great, permanent, personal, and inexpensive appreciation that you can provide to meeting volunteers and staff during an event

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/tip-2/2014/06/tip-simple-inexpensive-effective-appreciation-of-your-volunteers

#events #tip #volunteers #appreciations #thanks #meetings #eventprofs

Global News National19h ago
U.S. will hold off strikes on Iran’s power plants for 5 days, Trump says
U.S. President Donald Trump said that the suspension of his threat to attack power plants was “subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.”
#World #DonaldTrump #Iran #Iranwar
https://globalnews.ca/news/11741861/iran-power-plants-trump/
Global News World19h ago
U.S. will hold off strikes on Iran’s power plants for 5 days, Trump says
U.S. President Donald Trump said that the suspension of his threat to attack power plants was “subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.”
#World #DonaldTrump #Iran #Iranwar
https://globalnews.ca/news/11741861/iran-power-plants-trump/
Global News19h ago
U.S. will hold off strikes on Iran’s power plants for 5 days, Trump says
U.S. President Donald Trump said that the suspension of his threat to attack power plants was “subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.”
#World #DonaldTrump #Iran #Iranwar
https://globalnews.ca/news/11741861/iran-power-plants-trump/
Adrian Segar1d ago

Scenes from a peer conference: The Third Annual Vermont Vision For A Multicultural Future peer conference, November 6-7, 2014

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/peer-conference-2/2014/11/scenes-from-a-peer-conference

#meetings #EventDesign #Vermont #PeerConference #unconference #MulticulturalFuture #eventprofs #assnchat

Adrian Segar1d ago

How do you market a new peer conference? Here's an example of marketing language you can use to address potential attendee concerns.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/dear-adrian/2013/09/market-new-peer-conference

#meetings #EventDesign #marketing #PeerConference #ideas #eventprofs

Adrian Segar1d ago

Short-term traditional meeting evaluations are unreliable. They tell you nothing about the long-term effects of a session. We can do better.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2015/11/why-meeting-evaluations-are-unreliable-and-how-we-can-improve-them

#meetings #EventDesign #evaluations #bias #unreliable #HowToImprove #eventprofs

Adrian Segar2d ago

We'll all get a lot more out of our events when we practice wirearchy, not hierarchy. I encourage you to join me.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/10/wirearchy-not-hierarchy

#meetings #EventDesign #hierarchy #wirearchy #eventprofs #events