The 2016 Financial and Insurance Conference Planners Annual Conference, held Nov. 9–12 at the Omni Nashville Hotel in Nashville, Tenn., drew a record 264 financial and insurance conference professionals representing 137 companies, along with...
What’s wrong with the traditional Quarterly Business Review between meeting suppliers and clients? Maybe nothing—if the best use of your time is reviewing a mind-numbing PowerPoint. I’m convinced it’s time to rethink how we...
FOMO, or the fear of missing out, is that feeling that everyone is having more fun than you are. You know it—it’s how you feel when you scroll through your social media feeds and see all those shiny, happy people doing shiny, happy...
These days we’re all overwhelmed with distractions, deadlines, expectations, technology, media, and messages. We want to do it all, be it all, see it all—all the time. Meeting planners in particular tend to have that 24/7, always on the go, prepa...
Airport hotels are always convenient, but they’re not always meeting-ready. An extensive renovation at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport Marriott has meetings in mind with event space now expanded to 27,000 square feet and guest r...
More thoughts from the Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Annual Conference going on this week in Nashville:
• The morning of Day 2 was mainly dedicated to what FICP calls The Network—Live, the business appointment piece of the program...