Planning resilience: Facing today’s challenges as an event manager

Planning resilience: Facing today’s challenges as an event manager

Do you have the most stressful job? Each of us is faced with perpetual challenges in our workplace that seem to be continually increasing and adding to our stress levels. With the current climate of economic uncertainties, increasing workloads and unrelenting demands, most of us will likely claim we have the most stressful job.

Building trust: What meeting planners want suppliers to understand

Building trust: What meeting planners want suppliers to understand

Meeting planners are hardworking, resilient and well-organized individuals who rely upon a variety of suppliers to deliver the meetings they manage. They face the stresses of orchestrating an endless array of tasks and suppliers into a seamlessly delivered meeting, conference or convention.

Six strategies to mitigate outside supplier fees applied to audio visual services

Six strategies to mitigate outside supplier fees applied to audio visual services

A growing frustration for meeting planners, when managing their conference budgets, are excessive or undisclosed fees imposed by providers of essential services. Conference facilities are such a provider. Many facilities impose fees in an effort to block outside suppliers from servicing conferences, in turn forcing the use of in-house suppliers.

Six reasons outside supplier fees are a bad idea

Six reasons outside supplier fees are a bad idea

Meeting planners have the complex task of managing conference budgets and the wide array of suppliers that come with it. We do our due diligence to ensure everyone gets their fair share while maintaining a positive bottom line. Unfortunately, some suppliers that are an essential service to hosting a conference, like conference facilities, are taking advantage of their position.

Six steps to success with your event sponsorship

Six steps to success with your event sponsorship

Event managers are finding it increasingly difficult to secure sponsors and to keep them engaged in providing much-needed financial and in-kind supports. Something needs to change. It is time to bury the old idea of developing one-size-fits-all programs that beautifully outline our event’s Platinum, Gold and Silver sponsorship levels.

Six compelling reasons to outsource your meetings management

Six compelling reasons to outsource your meetings management

A well-delivered and effective meetings program will enhance the success of your organization. It will move you forward through connection, the exchange of ideas, the dissemination of information, and educational opportunities. Meetings help to build your business and the relationships you have with your customers.

Helping stakeholders see the big picture of meetings value

Helping stakeholders see the big picture of meetings value

Amid today’s challenging climate of economic uncertainty, more and more discussion about meetings and events is taking place in the corporate boardroom, where senior management teams are assessing the value those meetings bring to their business. For a professional meeting planner, knowing how to prove the value of tangible and intangible returns on a stakeholder’s investment is an enviable skill.

Four best practices that can make a difference to your conference

Four best practices that can make a difference to your conference

As meeting planners, we are on a continual quest to advance the quality of the conferences we deliver. This is necessary to ensure growth in attendance and program effectiveness. We want our conferences to reach more people and to see new learnings applied in their workplaces.