by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
Once again I delve into the question, but what was the objective?<\/strong><\/p>\n I find myself planning events more than previously. At least I find myself involved in planning events. And, as I have written before, I tend to ask some variation of, “What is the objective?”<\/p>\n I have been involved with many events where the after-event review concluded with the title of this post. People were happy they attended the event. That is a good thing as happiness is a good thing (at least I believe so).<\/p>\n But, and yes I must introduce a “but,” did you accomplish your objective of the event? If the objective was happiness, the event was a success. If the objective was learning, the event was a failure. I can replace “learning” in the previous sentence with a few dozen other words that would lead me to the same conclusion.<\/p>\n Allow me to emphasize this:<\/p>\n A great time had by me does not make an event a success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I can think of a lot of ways to have a great time. Most are far less costly than an event that consumes a lot of resources from a lot of persons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Once again I delve into the question, but what was the objective? I find myself planning events more than previously. At least I find myself involved in planning events. And, as I have written before, I tend to ask some variation of, “What is the objective?” I have been involved with many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,97],"tags":[142,212],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-planning","tag-learning","tag-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}