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Breakout Design Rules of Thumb

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Breakouts are the moment when your attendees are given the space to explore, discuss and internalize a key message at your conference. They’re where concepts are made real and tangible.

Focus your breakouts on the content and skills you most want people to hold onto when they leave, and make sure they don’t turn into just another presentation. Consider these rules of thumb to make your breakouts truly effective.

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A Provocative Recommendation: Stop Presenting!

Presentations aren’t always the best idea. Unless a presenter is phenomenally dynamic and engaging in her own right, audience members are going to have to consciously choose to pay attention and process the information. This takes effort, and it’s almost guaranteed that more interesting distractions will find their way into the space. If the presenter is presenting information that is remotely complex, dry, or worse, poorly organized, the audience is surely checked out.

Most of the time, when working with clients, the belief is that “net new” information needs to be presented first, and the only opportunity for interactivity is in the application of that knowledge. This is simply not true.

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