
Tuesday,July 20th, 2010
By Hank Wasiak
Asset-Based Thinking works wonders in both good and bad situations….and this is especially true when one is trying to affect change and be a change agent. When things are going well and changes are being embraced it’s easier to notice what’s working, appreciate the resources around us and enlist allies and advocates. Scanning [...]

Monday,June 21st, 2010
By Jeff Hurt
Did your Grandma attend conferences and events? Perhaps she attended local faith-based or women’s meetings. Maybe she went to canning or quilting gatherings or she attended meetings about state fair competitions. Or maybe she started the local neighborhood crime watch.
As a child, she may have attended a school that was based on the [...]

Tuesday,June 15th, 2010
By Doug McPhee
Have you discovered that when you ask the hard questions that answers are sometime slow in appearing? Have you tried asking a group for input on an idea and found them reluctant to respond with free expression?
There are many reasons for lack of free expression and less than creative answers to perplexing challenges. [...]

Thursday,May 20th, 2010
By Teri Tonioli, CMP
2009 e4 hit the mark. Content was timely. Speakers were impactful. And attendance? Record breaking. Hmmm, how do we surpass the expectations in 2010?!?!?
So here I sit, racking my brain on how we raise the bar for 2010 and all I wonder is “How do our clients make this happen year after year!?!”
Thus I [...]

Thursday,July 16th, 2009
By Danielle Cote, Sage Software
At last year’s e4 Conference, we learned the fundamentals of co-creation and its application to events. That’s when the light bulb went off. The creative spark was brighter and clearer than ever before. It was then that I decided to implement co-creation as a vehicle to improve session quality.
It’s obvious that improving session [...]