Plan Your Meetings

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The thought of it is often enough to make even the most experienced meeting planner want to change careers. A rule of meeting safety is ensuring the space, facility or venue is free from harm and offers components and measures that keep it free from harm. Safety is a big topic and covers a lot of different elements.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 18, 2019

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. Some venues will even add this to your final bill which streamlines the entire process.

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Event Leadership Institute

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The swimming pool of meeting and event safety has a variety of items floating in it, from physical safety and health concerns to climate change and political upheaval. Meeting planners have very full plates these days. When it comes to handling crisis communication, the meeting planner won’t be doing it alone. Train Your Team.

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

If you’re like many corporate meeting planners, planning meetings and events may only be part of your job and you learn as you go, without formal training. But if planning meetings and events are a passion of yours and you want to become a meeting professional, there are 33 skills you need to master. J: Marketing.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

For James Schultze, CMP, the realities of security at meetings and events in the post-9/11 era are encapsulated by a client he worked with on two events in the aftermath of the attacks. Think about convention centers like McCormick Place, Orlando, the D.C. convention center — 1,326 doors. Even a small convention center might have 50 doors.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

For James Schultze, CMP, the realities of security at meetings and events in the post-9/11 era are encapsulated by a client he worked with on two events in the aftermath of the attacks. Think about convention centers like McCormick Place, Orlando, the D.C. convention center — 1,326 doors. Even a small convention center might have 50 doors.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 18, 2023

Here’s what happened and what meeting pros can learn from it. The Philadelphia Marriott Downtown’s decision to host the Moms for Liberty national convention has lawmakers asking questions, and raises important risk management issues for meeting professionals to consider. Industry lawyer Joshua L. Grimes, Esq.

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