Corporate Meetings & Events

When it comes to designing an event survey, you need to know the desired outcome prior to taking action. This means asking stakeholders what information needs to be gleaned from the survey and how the results will be used. You also need to create...

When the Global Business Travel Association Foundation surveyed travel managers, security officers, and human resources managers about how their organizations keep business travelers safe, more than eight in 10 reported having a travel risk...

The word retreat literally means “to withdraw from enemy forces as a result of their superior power or after a defeat.” There are many reasons why a staff team might hold a retreat; e.g., to avoid office chaos and distractions and...

Rioting and a five-night curfew in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray, who had sustained a spinal injury while in police custody, caused at least two meeting cancellations. However, meetings business has quickly returned to normal in t...

Planners are always on the lookout for fresh ideas. You could be reading this right now while taking a break from trying to figure out how, at long last, to orchestrate your awards dinner so it doesn’t bore the pants off half the audience. She...

Kids cartoons are silly and fun and perhaps a bit moralistic, but would you take advice from Rapunzel or the Lion King's Rafiki? I think I will. Check out this infographic of advice from our cartoon friends, as gathered by playground equipment co...

Image from Congrats! You Have an All-male PanelThe list of all-male panels on the Congrats! You Have an All-male Panel Tumblr is dishearteningly long, and the humiliation of being featured on it is only compounded by each being stamped with a thu...

The goal of most corporate meeting departments is to plan programs that get high marks from attendees and save money in the process. David Rich would like to upgrade that goal by adding a bigger purpose for what you do, a purpose that already...