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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

As if the job of meeting professional weren’t difficult enough, many have had to take on the role of Chief Difficult Conversation Starter. In fact, if approached with thoughtfulness and preparation, those interactions could lead to the meeting professionals taking a rightful place as strategic advisors. By the Numbers. Jeff Calmus.

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Smart Women 2017: Innovators

SmartMeetings

What I love about my job: I enjoy the art of the sales process and meeting execution. Company or organization: Dahlia+ in Boston. In brain writing, your team writes down their ideas before a meeting instead of brainstorming out loud at a meeting. Best work trick I’ve learned: Always meet in person. Tracy Blair.

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Smart Women 2017 – Innovators

SmartMeetings

What I love about my job: I enjoy the art of the sales process and meeting execution. Company or organization: Dahlia+ in Boston. In brain writing, your team writes down their ideas before a meeting instead of brainstorming out loud at a meeting. Best work trick I’ve learned: Always meet in person. Tracy Blair.

2017 72
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Smart Women 2017: Industry Leaders

SmartMeetings

What I love about my job: I work on an amazing team that secures and executes meetings, conventions and sporting events for Greater Des Moines. To see the results, whether I’m negotiating, conducting programs or leading a training session, it’s important to always do my best. I use my camera for remote meetings. MaryAnne Zoldak.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

I n a real sense, Convene , which was launched in 1986, grew up alongside the meetings profession. As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine.

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