Have no time to create a fun, rewarding event for your staff — and even less budget? Why not order a party in a box? For example, Oriental Trading's Octoberfest Party in a Box comes complete with mugs, leis, metallic beaded necklaces, and smile...
The use of incentives across all levels of companies is on the rise, according to proprietary research by Promo magazine (www.promomagazine.com), sister publication of Corporate Meetings & Incentives. In its recently released Premium...
Today's employees value time as much as — or more than — money. In fact, 66 percent say that they would gladly give up some of their compensation in return for more flexibility in their working hours, according to Robert Half International. Yet...
Meetings, conventions, exhibitions, and incentive travel generated $122.3 billion in direct spending in the United States last year, according to the Convention Industry Council's Economic Impact Study, released in September. Corporate meetings...
Not long ago, ethics training was the exception rather than the rule in corporate America. Now, the majority of companies — 69 percent compared to just 37 percent in 1994, according to the Ethics Resource Center, Washington, D.C. — delivers this...
When Global Events Partners held its annual meeting this summer in pre-Katrina New Orleans, GEP Chairman and CEO Chris White made what he thought could be a rather controversial suggestion for the event's agenda...
SOME MEETING PROFESSIONALS and suppliers — colleagues whom you see at conferences and cocktail parties — live with chronic conditions and are constantly forced to deal with sometimes swiftly changing symptoms and problems. It's not easy to manage...
Dolce International has been awarded the management contract for Lakeway Inn Conference Resort in Austin, Texas, by new owners Behringer Harvard Funds of Dallas. Dolce had managed Lakeway from 1985 until 2002. Lakeway Inn is undergoing an...
Outta Sight Travel's Jackie Hull and her husband, Gary Metzler, work as a team. Metzler is blind and uses a guide dog, while Hull is sighted but, as she puts it, has “some hidden disabilities.” Together, the Port St. Lucie, Fla. — based couple...