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Risk Management 101 with Jordan Atherton, 1st Global

Connect Your Meetings

With today’s headlines, risk management is on every event professional’s radar. The best way to take steps toward protecting your attendees in the case of emergency is to have a clear emergency management plan for each event you host. Collect emergency contact information (and actually have it readily available).

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Crisis Communication: Tips for Event Safety

Event Leadership Institute

This provides the basic information to draft placeholders for future incident statements. Alan Kleinfeld has more years in meeting management than he wants to admit, combined with nearly two decades of law enforcement experience. He’s a sought-after consultant, speaker, writer, and trainer. Contact him at alan@arrivemanagement.com.

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Want Some Free, Totally Useful Tips, Tricks, and Advice?

MeetingsNet

If you’re looking for some super helpful tips on everything from audience engagement, risk management, and sponsorship, to event apps and gamification, check out this grab-bag of free downloadables. It’s all in there, from initial ideation and market research, through budgeting and sponsorship, site selection, and marketing.

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The 33 skills meeting and event planners need to succeed

Plan Your Meetings

B: Project management. C: Risk management. D: Financial management. G: Stakeholder management. I: Site management. Evaluate effectiveness of risk management plan. B: Project management. Manage critical path. Manage contracts. C: Risk management.

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Unclear and Present Danger

PCMA Convene

In the Convene survey, 24 percent of respondents said they take open-carry legislation into account when making site selections. They’re even making some planners think twice about meeting in a state that permits open carry of firearms. Andre Lico. If we’re in a place that open carry might be an issue, we’ll address that.”. “It