Conference Room Design

We’ve all sat through them–presentations that feel like they go on for hours and at the end, you struggle to remember what they were about. Grabbing audience attention and keeping it the entire time is a common problem that many presenters face. In fact, a recent study found that humans only have an eight second attention span. To put that number into perspective, the attention span of a goldfish is nine–one second longer than a human. Many factors–from lack of wireless presentation software and struggling with equipment set up to outside noise and lack of preparedness–can affect whether or not a presentation is a success. One of the primary reasons why some fail is simply because they didn’t engage with multiple senses, particularly visual. Visual content often increases understanding and engages people, because 90% of information is processed through visual means. On average, people process images 60,000 times faster than text. When presenters use poor visua...

In this day and age, avoiding technology in the workplace is like trying to avoid dairy at an ice cream shop. The best we can hope for is to harness technology and control its use.   Controlling the use of technology in the conference room is no different. As technology becomes more pervasive in our personal and work lives, here is a look at some of the biggest reasons why employees my actually hate the conference room technology that was intended to make life easier. Constant Dependence on Technology. The number one reason employees might dislike technology is the very fact that we are dependent on it to get the job done. How many times has everybody gone home early because the computers went down? How many meetings have been called off because of technical difficulty? Crippling Effects of Technology Malfunctions. Along the lines of point #1, employees hate attending a meeting where the wireless presentation equipment isn’t working, or wh...

When organizing a presentation, one must always ask the question, “What could go wrong?” The visions of worst-case scenarios in our minds can be frightening, hilarious, or both. Nevertheless, we have a job to do and a message to get across to our audience. A lot of details often go into planning a presentation—from the content to the technology that supports it. While the presentation may be a one-person show, colleagues and partners play significant roles making sure things run smoothly. No matter how tight your set-up is or how prepared you are, there is always the possibility that something could go wrong. Anything can happen during a presentation. You can never be too ready. However, with wireless presentations , you’re working with multiple devices and audiences from various locations and time zones. Technology is critical to support everyone across barriers because it’s the technology that brings people together. Therefore, there should be contingency pl...

The reason why interactive displays and audio video installation bears an immense importance in the boardroom meetings is that they help in optically and audibly understanding scenarios, situations, case studies, seminars, workshops as they allow the viewer(s) to comprehend what is going on and what is being discussed. Increased Use of Technology!With the widespread integration of technology into the daily activities of our lives, it is no surprise that we are constantly searching for new ways to improve our living standards, stay connected with the world and remain productive from any location. From our office to the board or meeting room, our standards and work-attitude are changing at a rapid pace. In fact, the whole business and working environment are evolving and companies (not all) from all across the globe are encouraging their employees to work remotely at their own comfort zone and communicate with superiors or teams via contemporary communication software.B...

Conference room scheduling software is not some strangely exceptional piece of technology in business it is, at this point, a standard. You cannot start a company with multiple interests in even a small number of places without noticing a need for some sort of direct and remotely accessible conferencing ability. Business interests these days’ refuse to be nailed down to a central location. Globalization has made local business interests into complex interlocking networks of multinational personalities and entities. The internet has brought us all closer while making it even more important to communicate directly. The multitude of information streams, email, text messages, instant messaging, can all get scrambled pretty quickly. To ensure these miss communication mishaps do not get in the way of you and your business some conference room scheduler can get everyone on the same page. Business has never been easy but in some ways globalization has made it seem easy. You s...