Case study: How to activate new company values
Announcing company values is one thing. Ensuring they are lived and enacted is another.
How to motivate attendance without making it mandatory
Instead of manufacturing stakes, we can understand something more powerful: motivation.
How to pivot your in-person gathering to remote in 1 week
How to pivot your in-person gathering to remote if you have a little more time to plan
How to pivot your in-person gathering to remote in 24 hours
You're faced with the sudden need to shift your gathering to remote. Here's how to maintain connection and engagement.
What Broadway can teach us about making change stick
When a leader takes a proverbial stage, the spotlight is on them to marry a message with a moment to affect change that sticks.
Stuffing the suitcase: Why the shelf life of your gathering is short-lived
When we assume content is king, we pack our gatherings with it. It's time to take a different approach if we want it to stick
What we’re missing about why we gather
If people are enjoying your gathering but nothing changes after, the difference we can make is not to increase interaction but personalization.
Town Hall case study: Why some gatherings are efficient but ineffective
Clarity drives not only gathering efficiency but effectiveness. Here’s how one organization learned to see.
How to create a webinar you’d want to attend
Here are 3 tips I’ve implemented to bring the message we want to share closer to those we want to share it with
What we learned from a year of gathering virtually
The struggle we had with gathering in 2020 was not how to share information but how to connect.
How to pull instead of push company changes
Why do the same values at different companies stick while others stall? One key difference is how we engage employees in the change.
Three reasons why your gathering doesn’t stick
It’s not the ‘what’ of the gathering to pay attention to. It’s the ‘how’
Two misconceptions that prevent change from sticking
Change that lasts and gatherings that work have common characteristics. They are made with us, and about us.
New Hire Orientation case study: How to create gatherings that scale
By focusing on strategy instead of tactics, content can come and go, but the foundation will stay solid for the long-term.
5 things to watch for to determine the success of your gatherings
Millions of dollars are spent each year on bringing people together - yet very few have the staying power that helps them stick. Why? Rather than rotate through new content each quarter, here are five questions to ask yourself instead
Why your gathering is fun but fleeting
What happens when we find that people love being at our gathering, but the change we are seeking doesn’t stick or land?
3 keys to creating content that connects
To help people move, feel, or think...our connection to the content matters more than the content itself.
Hannah Gadsby’s 60-minute magic trick: What comedians can teach us about creating lasting change
As Gadsby teaches us, the value of these gatherings rarely comes from checking all the boxes, telling all the jokes, or clicking all the slides in 60 minutes