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Contracts, Negotiations and Financials

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A Breakdown of Post-Pandemic Contract Clauses. New Contract Essentials in an Ever-Changing Environment. Contracting in the current Covid climate is complex—everything feels unsettled, so it’s hard to know how to plan. Contracts and Negotiations Amid Covid: Best of What’s Worked in 2021.

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Risk Management: Addressing Meeting Emergencies When the Industry Resumes

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Why should meeting professionals address risk? When it comes to risk management , there are two questions Coffey likes to pose to meetings planners: If an emergency were to occur during one of your meetings, do you think your client would expect you to know what to do or at least have an organized course of basic action?

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

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In fact, if approached with thoughtfulness and preparation, those interactions could lead to the meeting professionals taking a rightful place as strategic advisors. Read More : How to Plan Better Medical Meetings by the Numbers. His advice: “Give the whole picture rather than bringing decisions to a manager piecemeal.

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Best of 2021: Career Accelerator Webinars

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Vital Lessons from Covid-era Medical Meetings. Two medical meeting professionals share their experiences and the lessons they’ve learned planning events around considerations such as changing CDC protocols, managing attendee comfort levels and rules for medical programming.

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Childcare at Events Remains Expensive and Still Hard to Come By

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Tempesta, who has picked up some contracts from competitors who went out of business, said anyone entering the event childcare business these days faces steep challenges. The post Childcare at Events Remains Expensive and Still Hard to Come By appeared first on Skift Meetings.

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Where Does #EventTech Go from Here?

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Medical meetings? Every couple of months, the number of event apps out in the world began to, ever so slightly, contract. See also: Tech Mergers Could Simplify Virtual Meeting Management. In Stage 2, if a niche was available, someone was there to fill it. There’s an app for that. Scientific? Welcome to Stage 3.

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What Do You Like Best About Your Job?

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Less so the contracting, but more the sharing of ideas to make something work effectively in their space. Constantly meeting new people. Details, details, details and on-site management. Fitting pieces of the puzzle together; logistics management. Medical meeting industry is challenging!