When working with inexperienced volunteers, realize that part of your job as a meeting planner is training — not telling people to do things, but training them to do the job...
The key to preparing for a potential crisis at a meeting is to develop strategies for fast, accurate communication, says Nancy L. Elder, CAE director, meetings and expositions, American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C. Here are the...
Negotiating is both a science and an art. In meetings, things are going to change, and change quickly. It's important to understand the need to be flexible in negotiating. With that as the first fundamental, here is a list of important things to...
The key to developing an income and expense budget is to include every element that may be part of your event. It is better to maintain a complete list of budget items, even if you don't need all of them at this moment, than to overlook an item...
Here's a crash course in Budgeting 101 from the author of Meeting Planning For Dummies, Susan Friedman, aka The Tradeshow Coach (www.thetradeshowcoach.com)...
For the Professional Convention Management Association, the 2007 annual meeting, held in Toronto January 7 to 10, marked a series of firsts. It was the association's first annual meeting held outside the U.S.; it was the first “zero-waste”...
Robert Kalt Left his job as meeting planner for Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J., with a mission: He wanted to find a better way to dispose of all the extra food and goodies at the end of a meeting, rather than dumping them in the...
