What makes some meetings powerfully effective in creating long lasting results--while others quickly fade into memory? Those who want meetings to deliver a lasting rate of return on investment have to build into these events a high rate of...
Online Training at Wall Data: Content-driven and Interactive A couple of years ago, management at Wall Data was faced with a dilemma: how to quickly and effectively dispense training and information on a new product line to the company's employees...
Each year, IBM gives 36 corporate managers the chance to flex their mental muscles at one of the world's oldest and most prestigious universities--Cambridge University, England. What's interesting is that the five-week program offers everything...
The home of golf, Rob Roy, Edinburgh Castle, haggis, shortbread, Robert Burns, and some of the most stunningly rugged scenery in the world, Scotland has much to offer meeting and incentive executives. With a rich culture, friendly people...
You might think of conference centers only as a setting for no-nonsense meetings or training. These five companies have used them for just about everything-- from rolling out the latest Porsche to teaching attendees the art of fire swallowing...
Your Own Private Island Transform a Caribbean island beachfront resort into a private West Indian estate and give attendees the incentive of a lifetime...
Not Your Father's Philadelphia Philadelphia has taken its knocks over the years, including W.C. Fields' put-down about Philadelphia and the grave. But Susan Schwenderman, director of communications for the Philadelphia CVB, recently shared the...
Each year, Corporate Meetings & Incentives' readers honor 10 conference centers as "the best of the best." Editor Barbara Scofidio and Publisher Peter Huestis presented representatives from those Paragon Award-winning conference centers with...
A friend once told me that when he chooses a resort for an incentive, first impressions are everything. I couldn't help but think of that on my recent visit to Cape Cod's Ocean Edge Resort. With my first glance of the Victorian-style stone mansion...
