Confessions Of A Compulsive Conference-Goer

Confessions Of A Compulsive Conference-Goer

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  Confessions of a compulsive conference-goer
  10 Aug 17: Is your conference spinning out of control?
  

  Thursday | Aug 10 2017

  IS your conference spinning out of control?

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  Confessions of a compulsive conference-goer
  13 July 17: Airing your dirty laundry at conferences
  

  Thursday | Jul 13 2017

  REGULAR readers of this column will know that my ‘Confessions’ sessions sometimes turn into dirty laundry…

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  Confessions of a compulsive conference-goer
  11 May 17 – A pie in the face (and other conference mishaps):
  

  Thursday | May 11 2017

  AS YOU have no doubt heard, earlier this week while speaking at a business event in…

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  Confessions of a compulsive conference-goer 13 Apr 17: The Death of Delegate Doodling

  Thursday | Apr 13 2017

  REMEMBER Doodling? That creative thing we once did on the edges of our note-pad in the middle of a boring school class, Uni lecture or conference presentation? Our attention would wander from the teacher, lecturer or presenter’s monotone, we’d click our pen a few times before putting pen to paper and creating a swirling Da-Vinci-esque artwork.

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  Confessions of a compulsive conference-goer 09 Feb 17: Conference Congestion

  Thursday | Feb 9 2017

  I LOVE living in Sydney, despite the traffic. But over the years, after too many nervous car trips, cursing at the traffic and worrying I might run late for a job or a meeting, I’ve changed my approach. I leave an hour for travel. Unless I’m heading somewhere very close and I am sure there won’t be traffic, I simply build in an hour to my schedule. The CBD is about 10 kms away from home (my Maps App says it is a 22 minute journey by car) — but I leave an hour. The airport should be a 40 minute drive, but I always leave an hour. As a result, zero stress and I’m never late. No time-wasting because with mobile devices, if I arrive early (which happens 50% of the time) I grab a quick coffee or sit in the comfy office lounges in the foyer and get on with my work, the same work I would have done in my office before I left.

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  Confessions of a compulsive conference-goer 8 Dec 16: Leaflet loading

  Thursday | Dec 8 2016

  HERE’S my final conference confession of the year and this one is directed specifically to conference…

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  Confessions of a compulsive conference-goer 10 Nov 16
  The top 5 most clichéd conference comments
  

  Thursday | Nov 10 2016

  ONE of the downsides of attending many conferences each year is that things occasionally can get…

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  Confessions of a compulsive conference-goer
  13 Oct 16 : How Bob Marley saved a conference
  

  Thursday | Oct 13 2016

  LATE in the afternoon at a conference I was MC’ing early this year, I noticed the audience energy waning and I saw a few sets of wavering, flickering eyes. To be fair, the presenter had a monotone, he was relying on endless power-point slides and was not interacting with the audience. Put simply, there was zero energy and we still had two more presentations to go before day’s end.

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  Confessions of a compulsive conference-goer 8 Sep 16 : Shut up and sit down

  Thursday | Sep 8 2016

  AS A Conference MC, people often ask me “what is the most difficult part of the…

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  Confessions of a compulsive conference-goer – 11 Aug 16 : Don’t F up your presentation

  Thursday | Aug 11 2016

  AS A music-obsessed teenager growing up in the 80’s, my mates and I got immense pleasure…