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Five Risk Management Tips For Your Holiday Event

Event Leadership Institute

Being the person that speaks up at a holiday event planning meeting and addresses tough, valid and scary concerns around the safety and well-being of your guests, could earn you the nickname Ebenezer Scrooge, but rest assured you will soar to the top of the “nice” list when you save Christmas! The answer is two words: risk management.

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7 Steps to Creating a Proactive Medical Risk Management Plan

MeetingsNet

Don’t wait until you have a medical disaster on your hands to realize you should have spent as much time planning for medical issues as you did for food and beverage. Here are the steps he recommends to create a proactive medical risk management plan. How long will it take emergency responders to get to your venue?

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Financial Meeting Planners Face Special Challenges During Crises

SmartMeetings

More : Budget Financial Meetings: Doing More with Less. Managing risk is particularly important in the financial and insurance meetings sector, and meeting planners play a key role in this process. Developing risk management plans and protocols is a “big and important question,” Panepinto says.

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Budget Financial Meetings: Doing More with Less

SmartMeetings

Meetings in the financial and insurance sector require outside-the-box thinking. The economy was humming along before the coronavirus hit, but even then the majority of meeting planners in the financial and insurance industries were keeping their budgets in neutral. Financial and insurance meetings in the U.S.

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Money Talks: Defining an Event Budget

TicketBud

According to a recent Maritz Industry Trends Report , most meeting expenses are up over 20 percent since before the pandemic. By delineating expenses across various categories such as venue, marketing, and entertainment, budgets help prioritize spending for maximum impact. Event budgets also act as a risk management tool.

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Best Practices for Safe Meetings from APEX COVID-19 Business Recovery Taskforce

SmartMeetings

Drowning in a sea of protocols and guidance documents released daily by government agencies, venues and organizations? The group is addressing health and safety, community, global ecosystems, reskilling the industry , innovation, digital transformation , advocacy and risk mitigation. Preparing for Return to Meeting.

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3 Shifts in Event Sustainability

PCMA Convene

Instead of advertising its brand, Amazon chose to use its naming rights to spotlight its pledge to reach net-zero carbon emissions by calling the Seattle venue Climate Pledge Arena — just one example how sustainability has become top of mind for organizations and consumers. Michael Dyerland/Visit Seattle). ” — Shawna McKinley.