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Marriott talks shop with insurance and financial services customers while showcasing three California desert resorts...

If by some chance the outsourcing question hasn't been asked yet in your company, Maria Capone Goodwin, senior vice president, meeting and event management for Boston-based Fidelity Investments, suggests you practice a bit of preventive medicine...

Old-school motivation techniques are seriously out of step with today's talented employees...

A company's major incentive conferences are planned with lots of care and attention. After all, companies rely on them to increase sales, maintain management relationships with the field, and reward the hard work of top producers. These events...

Probably the one piece of AV equipment most used at any insurance meeting or conference — even incentive conferences — is the data/video projector. It is imperative that planners keep up with the technological advances that are occurring almost...

This simple parable has sparked a grassroots movement across corporate America to have more fun at work...

The lack of interest in hot rates/hot dates promotions was painfully obvious at the Marriott Insurance Planners seminar in December 1999: Ninety percent of the 30 insurance planners in attendance said they did not find these mailings valuable...

With the latest wave of belt-tightening and layoffs, motivating employees has toppled back to the bottom of the priority list for some managers. When you're overworked, with less staff and less time, there's little room for the warm fuzzies...

Feel the shock of an icy waterfall — two fists of crystal froth, crashing down a granite wall, framed by a tangle of vines. With a rope secured around your waist and anchored to the top of the rock, you start rappelling, creeping backward down the...