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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

Koleen Roach, director of meetings and conference management at Securian Financial Group, led a panel of veteran explainers during Financial and Insurance Conference Professional ’s 2022 Annual Conference at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport. Read More : How to Plan Better Medical Meetings by the Numbers. The solution?

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Convincing Stakeholders to Hold Live or Hybrid Events is Planners’ Top Concern

PCMA Convene

Here is what they said: Convincing stakeholders to hold live or hybrid meetings (63 percent). Contract negotiations/liability/waivers (43 percent). based planner concerns for moving forward with events were (highest to lowest): fear in general, lower attendance, travel restrictions, and negotiating contract terms.

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How to Write Force Majeure to Protect Your Meeting from the Next Pandemic

SmartMeetings

As news spread about socially distancing to save lives, planners and hoteliers experienced an evolving understanding of whether coronavirus could be called an “act of God,” which would allow contracted meetings to be called off without liability. Don’t just agree with what the hotel proposes.”

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What Do You Like Best About Your Job?

PCMA Convene

Less so the contracting, but more the sharing of ideas to make something work effectively in their space. Constantly meeting new people. Hotel sourcing and research. No meeting, destination, or even project is ever the same. Medical meeting industry is challenging! Negotiating contracts.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals. Outside of medical meetings, “those [organizations] that were going to have a meeting, instead of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland [putting on a show], it was the new secretary in the department.

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