Designing Meetings that

Excite, Enlighten, and Empower your

Audience

Presented by Dr. Lawana Gladney

Brain Puzzle

Use acronyms and chunking techniques

Less is more

Use pictures and graphics anywhere possible

Write content with learning styles in mind – visual, auditory, and kinetic

Include activities

Content has to be relevant to audience

Use humor

Avoid cramming information into meetings

Avoid scheduling too many learning sessions at conferences

Keep information light – not heavy

Make it fun

Encourage session overview

Create action plans

Red

Physiological Effect: Yellow has proven to stimulate the brain. This stimulation can make you more alert and decisive. This color makes muscles more energetic and activates the lymph system.

Psychological Effect: Yellow is a happy and uplifting color. It can also be associated with intellectual thinking: discernment, memory, clear thinking, decision-making and good judgment. Also aiding organization, understanding of different points of view. Yellow builds self-confidence and encourages optimism. However, a dull yellow can bring on feelings of fear.

Black

Gray

Psychological Effect: Gray is the color of independence and self-reliance, although usually thought of as a negative color. It can be the color of evasion and non-commitment (since it is neither black nor white.) Gray indicates separation, lack of involvement

and ultimately loneliness.