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May 26, 2016
Note: This is part one of a three part series on Theater-in-the-Round. Today, the focus is on staging, next week will be on speaking, and then having […]
May 15, 2016
While there is great debate in the moderator community about who should introduce the panelists, let’s put it on record that I’m not a big fan […]
May 12, 2016
If a Panel, a Q&A, and a Keynote Speaker Had a Baby……it would be DigitalNow‘s creative collaboration sessions, according to MeetingsNet.com. I was fascinated with MeetingsNet.com’s description […]
May 5, 2016
“OMIGOSH! I knew this was going to happen!” If you think about it, a good panel moderator can see most of the things that can go wrong during […]
April 28, 2016
“Rapid fire panel discussion sounds much more sexy than [boring] panel discussion, doesn’t it? I admit, I was intrigued with the title when I stumbled upon […]
April 5, 2016
Top 10 Problems with Panel Discussions In a survey we conducted in 2014 of over 500 executives and meeting professionals, we asked, “What’s your absolute, biggest […]
March 31, 2016
I’m always on the lookout for a smart, brisk panel discussion format, so I was delighted to witness Michael Wilkinson, Managing Director of Leadership Strategies moderate a […]
March 23, 2016
Ian Cleary runs razorsocial.com, is an expert in social media tools, and speaks at various conferences. He has attended several panel discussions, he is frequently asked to be a […]
March 10, 2016
I inhale just about everything on the web about panel discussions – the good, the bad, and the ugly. With 197 million entries on “how to moderate a […]
March 3, 2016
You’ve been asked to moderate a panel discussion and you know the first few moments will make or break the success of the session. Typically, you’ll […]
February 18, 2016
I was chatting with Dutch Driver, a colleague from the early days of facilitation (we actually used a listserv to communicate!), about the power of asking a […]
February 11, 2016
Your audience can get really annoyed when the moderator doesn’t manage time well during a panel discussion. All it takes is for the moderator to take […]
February 3, 2016
You walk into the room and see a traditional seating set-up for your panel discussion: White draped table at the front on a podium, theater-style with […]
January 28, 2016
I’m a little rankled about a recent posting from the NY Magazine about a panel at Davos about gender equality….and it was all men. (We’ve talked about […]
