Management

Here, There, & Everywhere
Looking to harness the creativity of your attendees? Here's an idea: Hold your next brainstorming session on horseback.
By sara j. welch
Present and Accounted For
Call it the big squeeze. Meeting planners everywhere are seeing their events shrinking: Some are reconceived, others postponed. A sizeable number are being canceled altogether. In fact, 61 percent of...
By Rebecca Meany
Merging Lane
As a company grows through mergers or acquisitions, communicating a message especially a cultural one becomes increasingly difficult. Communication is often a challenge of both logistics and semantics.
By Mary Tribble
POWER PLAYS
Make your meetings more productive, and ward off boardroom boredom, by becoming a well-organized meeting chair. Jacqueline Whitmore, founder and director of The Protocol School of Palm Beach in Florida,...
To Tell the Truth
If Catherine the Great could do it, so can you. Not become Czarina of Russia, of course. But treat people well, in a most unique way. How? Inside her Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, where she met her...
By Tom McDonald
Trading Up
When co-locating a trade show, will the match work as well as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers or will it more closely resemble Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis? It all comes down to planning. When it's done...
What About My ROI?
It's a grind. Go on, admit it. NO matter how much you enjoy being a planner, on some days you know, the ones jammed with convoluted contracts, go-nowhere negotiations, and atrocious attrition fees it's...
By Michelle Gillan Fisher
Meetings Week in the UK
The events industry unites to promote the first-ever National Meetings Week, June 18-22. The focus will be on the value of the conference industry to the United Kingdom's economy.
By Peggy Swisher
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