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Control versus freedom at meetings

Conferences that Work

How can we design the optimum balance between control versus freedom at meetings? As I wrote in 2010: The reality is that you never had control to begin with, just the myth of control. Note that I’m not suggesting meeting professionals give up any attempt to control what happens at their events. The myth of control.

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Unraveling the Confusion about Thinking and Feeling

Conferences that Work

As I wrote in 2010: “…when I was growing up my education emphasized thinking…However, the educational agenda allocated no time for understanding or expressing my feelings…All of us in school had feelings, of course, and they greatly affected how and what we did. Especially for men. Yours may be different.

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Design your meeting BEFORE choosing the venue!

Conferences that Work

I love my meeting design clients, but there is one mistake I see them making over and over again. Clients invariably ask me to help design their meeting after they’ve chosen a venue! given at EventCamp Twin Cities on September 9, 2010? Here’s why they do it, and why it’s a mistake. If so, download.

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Why Meeting Planners Should—and Shouldn’t—Worry About Airline Strikes

MeetingsNet

Recent news that pilots at American, Southwest, and United airlines are threatening to strike might be fraying the nerves of meeting professionals concerned about their upcoming events. airline pilots strike was in 2010, when some 440 Spirit Airlines pilots stopped flying on June 12. Here’s why. Pilot strikes are rare. The last U.S.

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Exclusive Collection outlines The Big Re-Think for meetings and events

Event Industry News

The research set out to understand the motivations and expectations of Generation Alpha (those born in 2010 onwards) who will reach the workplace in […] The Big Re-Think is the culmination of quantitative research carried out in autumn 2023 in partnership with micebook.

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Meeting Professionals International Experiments with Annual Meeting

MeetingsNet

With the post-pandemic environment for meetings and conventions allowing organizations to try some different ideas, Meeting Professionals International did just that with its World Education Congress, held from June 13 to 15. The just-completed World Education Congress went south of the U.S. WEC has taken place outside the U.S.

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Smart Moves in Chicago, Atlanta and More

Smart Meetings

She served as the property’s director of rooms from 2010-2015 and was awarded “Director of Rooms of the Year.” Read More: Smart Moves in Hawaii, Las Vegas and More The post Smart Moves in Chicago, Atlanta and More appeared first on Smart Meetings. Most recently, he served as senior manager of operations at Frazier History Museum.

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