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Seth Godin, an American business expert and speaker, recently wrote that meetings are at risk of using “false methods” that put “time, curiosity and dependence” on them.
What he is talking about is the “connection time” found in business events, whether in-person or on-screen, using mobile phones in a room or chatting on digital platforms. There are verbal responses and responses, unmodified changes that have been released throughout the ceremony or an opportunity for each person to express themselves for a longer period of time.
Over the past 18 months, group meetings have been dominated by donations that often seem to reflect the potential for professional democracy, rather than collective bargaining.
While human business events around the world have recently been mentioned in some areas, the concept of “mixed events” – trade fairs, conferences, seminars or conferences that engage people and realities – has become a new form of post-epidemic conferences.
Mixed assembly is marketed as an easy way to host a Covid event. There are all sorts of in-person event arrangements, but it is a combination that is also created as a feedback system. This can be exacerbated if the in-person component is suspended due to a closure, a problem problem or some other unexpected problem.
But in-person experiences are often more intriguing than digital ones. It happens all over the place: it’s fun to visit the gallery instead of watching the YouTube video itself.
Psychologists call this choice “co-operation”. This describes a time when people see others moving in their own time, when everyone is shaking their heads or clapping their hands, or when the group is laughing. Pre-recorded or modified events can borrow some of these if they do not occur frequently, alone or with high yields (TED negotiations, e.g., selling both). But in order to be cohesive, people need to be in the same room.
As a result, while hybrids can be useful, in some ways they are also effective. There is no such thing as a “must-have” on which events such as the World Economic Forum in Davos depend. With a hybrid, while some people live in a room, many have to watch it happen without talking at home.
The world of conferences, business segments and job-related events is in jeopardy. The UK business management unit was expected to have $ 31.2bn by 2020, according to figures released by Business Visits and Events Partnerhip. But between March and November 2020, 845 major demonstrations in the region were canceled, equivalent to $ 8.9bn, research shows.
Now companies are facing many questions. What ideas should be based on the inner workings of a person? They need to be hugged – and what warning? How do events relate to the question of employment? Do you go to whip three people? Or let people stay at home? The result is a threat not only to establishing a place of presence and availability, but also to what is happening in the person and not just before anyone else burns.
The answers to these questions are very reliable and can change in just a few hours depending on the latest Covid.
In addition, the type of mixed information is not easy to control. Many event planners may think that they can create their own TED talks for live audiences and record them for the future. But to deliver what needs to be seen right away – and most of all, after all – requires the preparation, maintenance and production of skills that most companies cannot.
How to manage mixed events
Ask: what is the purpose of the ceremony? If you only show the new part, check the facts. They are a low-key place, but being open provides proper preparation. The measure of success will be that the event took place and the change of segment was identified. If that is enough, do not turn it into a Royal Variety Performance.
If there is a desire for popularity – for example, you want your friends to love each other, to hear from an inspiring speaker, make them feel cared for or remind them that they are back to “normal business” – make sure you do this. If peers need to communicate, for example, they should be in the same room, or have a facilitator who has the ability to do this online. Priya Parker Podcast Together Except has good ideas on how to achieve all of these goals.
Do not try to be all things to all people. Without a lot of money and technical skills, it is very difficult to have a well-distributed moment that works for themselves, online and in the future. Indicate the goals, change the mindset and talk about who is feeling and how to reach them.
If you need to broadcast events, and / or record them, use one camera. Everyone who watches will want to see how the audience feels and how they are performing on stage.
Consider how the audience (whether residential or digital) will ask questions and how these questions will be answered and directed. Be careful with audience substitutes, for example, planners should ensure that those in the room will not be difficult to answer questions from distant delegates.
Experts also do not have the same emotional outlook as the plague. For example, during a closed period, online events – large and small, commercial and private – are the ones that have the most space. They can be wonderfully loving and harmonious at a time when many people have the same feelings including isolation, insecurity, anxiety and fever.
Now, however, experts are in a different, uncoordinated state — those who spread ideas. Major events and moments of connection rely on attracting a collective audience who are experiencing similar ideas and their own ideas at the same time. But the variety of responses to the crisis is broader and more unexpected than ever. In short, it is hard to imagine that the views of the audience at this time, even though they are all unified in the same organization.
In this case, achieving what comedian and competition expert Phil Burgers calls “meeting people where they are” is difficult. This concept describes the state of the audience’s perception of the audience in a way that makes them feel connected. This should be confirmed as this phenomenon – which is often found in theaters, jokes, music and sometimes all over the world – can take place simultaneously, both in person and in photography.
Perhaps someone like Beyoncé, who is doing a demonstration of what can be changed and available to download, can address these three threats. But it is wise not to try to be Beyonce without construction. In the process, it is better to limit your desires, ask for what can be achieved and what is worthwhile, and do one thing well rather than three things wrong.
As Godin put it: “Cooperation, real-time cooperation is essential. It creates magic. We should not waste it on offices or show false positives. It is better to keep it in the time of communication and feasibility.”
By the author and author of ‘How to Have a Place: Women and The Art of Speaking ‘.