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What Does It Take for Women to Excel in the Meetings Industry?
How we can start to close the gap between the number of women in the meetings industry and the number of women in industry leadership positions.What would you do if your boss put his finger in a glass...
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Want to Scare a Meeting Planner to Death?
A gallery of meeting planning horrors that haunt event professionals all year long.Meeting professionals don't scare easy. Bumps in the night, creepy critters, ghouls, and gore generally don't faze...
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Lessons on Crisis Communications from Chipotle’s Brand Lead
William Espey shows meeting professionals how to defend a brand facing a PR crisis.“Transparency builds trust. Trust builds loyalty,” says William Espey, the marketing visionary who built up Chipotle’s...
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Event Prof Shines in Forbes Q&A
Christy Lamagna tackles the difference between strategy and logistics, what makes for a dream client, fam ethics, and more.When I hear a meeting professional is mentioned in the mainstream media, I get...
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Business Travel: What Me, Worry?
Carlson Wagonlit Travel, working with Artemis Strategy Group, surveyed more than 1,900 business travelers from around the globe in spring 2017 for its CWT Connected Traveler Study. While researchers...
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How to Become a More Mindful Meeting Professional
Introducing a new seven-step program designed to support you throughout the stressful holiday season and into the new year.At MeetingsNet, we know the countdown to the holiday rush officially begins...
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Mindful Monday Week 1: Centering
How to reconnect to your own voice when the world around you is shoutingOur world is overwhelming. Our fear of missing out on something important makes us feel we need to sift through the constant,...
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Mindful Monday, Week 2: Examine Your Beliefs
This week’s lesson and two-minute daily practice will help you reflect on how your beliefs affect your life and work.MeetingsNet has partnered with mindfulness leadership expert Holly Duckworth, CMP,...
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5 Top Trends Shaping the Meetings Industry Today
Human safety and data security top the list of meetings CEO concerns voiced at a recent Events Industry Council meeting.Some troubling trends bubbled up at a recent gathering of meetings industry...
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The Meeting Design Game: Plan Your Meeting with Play
Whether you’ve been naughty or nice, a new card game for meeting planning is available this holiday season.Ann Hansen and Bo Krüger are meeting designers based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and run workshops...
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FICP Celebrates Turning 60 in Style
The FICP Annual Conference this week is drawing record crowds to celebrate the association’s ongoing achievements, and learn from experts and each other.In its 60th anniversary year, Financial &...
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IMEX Frankfurt to Launch “She Means Business” Event
The new half-day conference held during IMEX Frankfurt’s EduMonday in 2018 will address issues faced by women in the meetings and events industry.“It has long been noticeable that whilst women are in...
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SPIN Launches Recognition Program for Seasoned Planners
Called SPIN: 40 over 40, the initiative honors planners for their work as industry role models.SPIN: Senior Professionals Industry Network has released the list of winners of its inaugural SPIN: 40...
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Mindful Monday, Week 3: Set Powerful Intentions
This week’s lesson and two-minute daily practice will help you become clearer about what you plan to have happen, including how you intend to feel about the experience.MeetingsNet has partnered with...
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What Am I Most Grateful For?
What can I say? Meetings industry professionals never cease to amaze me.As I started thinking about people I need to talk with for an upcoming story, I ran into the weirdest problem—there are just too...
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Mindful Monday, Week 4: Create a Vision
This week’s lesson and two-minute daily practice will help you learn how to recreate your reality using visioning.MeetingsNet has partnered with mindfulness leadership expert Holly Duckworth, CMP, CAE,...
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TED Talks Events Struggle with Sexual Harassment
The “ideas worth spreading” media organization is working to address complaints about conference behavior.The Washington Posthas reported that TED Talks, the nonprofit global media organization and...
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Mindful Monday Week 5: Mindful Movement
This week’s lesson and fIve-minute daily practice will help you learn how to reconnect to your inner self by moving your body.MeetingsNet has partnered with mindfulness leadership expert Holly...
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PCMA President Sexton Stepping Down
Current Professional Convention Management Association COO Sherrif Karamat is named as new CEO.After more than 12 years at the helm of the Professional Convention Management Association, PCMA President...
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New Airline Restrictions on Smart Luggage Batteries
If a piece of “smart luggage” is on your Christmas list this year, make sure Santa shops carefully so your new case isn’t an unwanted fruitcake.New checked bag restrictions by three airlines—American,...
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