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Create Powerful Meetings Instead of Power-over Meetings

Conferences that Work

Traditional conferences unconsciously promote and sustain power imbalances between the “speakers” at the front of the room and the audience. All meetings incorporate power relationships that fundamentally affect their dynamics and potential. If you had told me then that the.

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Smart Moves in San Antonio, Atlanta and More

Smart Meetings

Loren Christie Loren Christie Christie is appointed as the new managing director for BestCities Global Alliance. She joined Omni La Mansión del Rio upon her graduation from University of Texas San Antonio, working up to a position as Convention Service Manager.

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Growing Appetite for Local Ingredients on Event Menus

PCMA Convene

I want to be there when the food is prepared, I want to be there when it’s picked and when it’s brought to the kitchen and when the chef starts to use it,’” said Molly Crouch, director of sustainability at Sodexo Live!, Dienst is managing editor at Convene. Jennifer N.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

Implement a customer relationship management system for my veterinary circus animal practice? Respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Vermont? Complicated problems (“known unknowns”) succumb to expert analytical judgment. For example, how can I: Unify my business’s unique branding and marketing needs?

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Peer Conferences Deep Dive—Meeting Doctors transcript and video

Conferences that Work

Adrian Segar: Yes, I spent the first 25 years in England and began my first career there, fell in love with Vermont to my complete surprise on only the second time I ever came to the United States, and then tried to figure out how to make a living in this beautiful place, which is, many of your viewers will know, a beautiful rural U.S.

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The Way Forward 

PCMA Convene

Mutz agrees that sustained interactions help us to better know people. In 2016, the Risk Management Society held two community-service days at its Annual Conference & Exhibition in San Diego. They lack continuity or commitment, or shared responsibility over time. We come and go as we please. There is no necessity to get along.”.

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