Better Meetings

08/06/2024

Transform your meeting facilitation with our interactive 2-day training in DC/Virginia on Oct 17-18. Ideal for leaders, managers, collaborators, and innovators. Sign up by Aug 23 and use code "bringafriend" to get a second ticket at half price.

Get tickets online for Group Facilitation Training | Oct 17-18 | better collaboration, innovation & management here.

05/23/2024

Lee Gimpel is the founder of Better Meetings in Washington, DC. Gimpel says that with events, people often confuse being thoughtful — thinking about decisions and choices — with being intentional, which is to say really having an intent and then designing an event to manifest those intentions. “Yes, being intentional requires thought, but a lot of events skip true intention-setting and then spend a lot of time and thought on details that aren’t connected to the purpose,” Gimpel says.

"Intentional Designs: Keeping Events Relevant, Useful, Worthwhile to Everyone" in Corporate & Incentive Travel Magazine

https://bettermeetings.expert/news-media/

04/01/2024

7 Tips for Curating an Effective Event Guest List in BizBash:
“Planning an event should always start with why you are doing an event,” advises Lee Gimpel, president of Washington, D.C.-based meeting design, facilitation, and training company Better Meetings. “Often, planners jump right to executing on the what and how of an event."

The right group of attendees can lead to meaningful conversations and collaborations—and ultimately, a successful event. Here's where to start.

01/31/2024

new Forbes article from Lee Gimpel about using an interview meeting format rather than a plain ol' speech. Easier, faster, and more humanizing.

Adopt Coach Klopp's interview method for effective, humanized corporate communication. Ideal for busy experts and speakers seeking authentic interaction.

10/10/2023

Little has changed in the last 50 years when it comes to in-person event formats, but what attendees want has dramatically changed.

Wondering what attendees want and how you can restructure your events to provide more value and create space for the elements that attendees want most?

Join us next Wednesday, October 11th at 1pm Eastern for a lively, idea-packed session with Lee Gimpel, Founder and CEO of Better Meetings, and Teri Carden, CEO & Founder of & Non Dues-a-Palooza. These two are masterminds in the event space. You don’t want to miss it! (plus, you’ll earn 1 CAE for joining live!)

Register now! https://bit.ly/3F53US7

Join us for a lively, idea-packed session on ways you can make your meetings better, no matter the scale, to provide more value and drive more connection and engagement.

02/28/2023

Are you a ? Who would hire you or partner with you? In this hands-on workshop-and-networking-session, Lee Gimpel of Better Meetings will demonstrate 3 practical facilitated techniques -- and also help you find beneficial synergies and profitable partnerships in your network.

02/27/2023

Simply saying, “We want to hear from everyone!” or “The floor is open!” doesn't magically mean that everyone will be heard in a meeting. Instead, it takes practical changes—even small ones—in how leaders lead and meetings function. — Lee Gimpel in Forbes

Simply saying that, “We want to hear from everyone!” or “The floor is open!” does not magically mean that everyone will be heard in a meeting. Instead, it takes practical changes—even small ones—in how leaders lead and meetings function.

02/23/2023

Are all of your people really being heard? Here are three things you may be doing wrong in meetings -- by Lee Gimpel in Forbes

Are all of your people really being heard? Here are three things you may be doing wrong in meetings.

02/07/2023

Lee Gimpel's latest column for Forbes: What lessons can organizations take from the ?

A written update becomes a meeting. Then that meeting swells to become an even bigger meeting. Then that meeting continues to happen over and over.

02/03/2023

Better Meetings founder Lee Gimpel in BizBash on "Ways to Convince the C-Suite to Host a Meeting or Event" https://bit.ly/3HA3P9M

01/10/2023

A recent quote in The Guardian about Shopify, meeting purges, and reducing meetings
https://bit.ly/3QB7ad6

01/04/2023

Gamification can be great at meetings & events, but it's not always done right ...

A recent quote in Corporate & Incentive Travel Magazine | A typical example of gamification Gimpel has seen for decades at conferences is something like a ‘passport’ system to encourage visits to the exhibitors. “There are a number of variations on this, but it basically looks like visiting numerous vendors where you get a stamp or a signature and if you collect all of them, then you get a prize,” Gimpel says. “From the outside, this can look successful because it means there are a bunch of people racing around an exhibit floor and seemingly interacting with exhibitors. But the reality is a lot of those interactions are not very valuable. It’s just attendees trying to win an iPad and they don’t really care about the exhibitors, and it means they’re visiting exhibitors that really aren’t a good fit with them just to get that stamp.”

From earning points toward prizes upon listening to breakout speakers, to team-building events that award the most successful teams, to interactive games that result in free giveaways, the gamification of today’s meetings and events is popular among attendees and planners alike.