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The top educational meeting format

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What’s an Ideal Meeting? April 2018, Meetings and Conventions Magazine Do you incorporate participatory sessions into your events? 80% of meeting professionals prefer f acilitated workshop-style, participatory sessions [ survey by M&C Research, April 2018 Meeting and Conventions magazine ]!

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An affordable air quality tool for meeting planners

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The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the in-person meeting industry. Though it took too long to recognize that COVID-19 spreads via air transmission , we finally have effective procedures (vaccine mandates, masking, air quality standards, and social distancing) to reduce infection risk at in-person meetings. It depends!

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The Happiest Places to Meet in America

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Bring joy into your meetings Joy is contagious. Using WalletHub’s list of the happiest cities in America , Smart Meetings gathered some of the top locations, venues and locations that are sure to bring a smile to your attendees’ faces. of meeting and event space and 43 breakout rooms. Marriot Irvine has 30,375 sq.

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Create Powerful Meetings Instead of Power-over Meetings

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All meetings incorporate power relationships that fundamentally affect their dynamics and potential. Related posts: Designing Participation Into Your Meetings No, that’s not me up on the stage, and that’s not the kind of session I’ll be leading next Tuesday, May 22, at the MPI New England 2012 Northeast Education.

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How to help meeting design clients figure out what they really want and need

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Scenes from a peer conference A slideshow of images from the Third Annual Vermont Vision For A Multicultural Future peer conference, held at the Mount Snow Grand Summit Resort November 6-7, 2014. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That. Conferences That Work goes to Japan!

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Meeting Profs Travel Report: Who Travels for Business?

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20 Vermont $28.87 The post Meeting Profs Travel Report: Who Travels for Business? appeared first on Smart Meetings. Finally, the survey saw that health and safety is the biggest threat to business travel: over inflation, budget cuts or travel freezes. Ranking States Average nine-mile taxi Costs 1 Maine $35.92 4 New York $33.67

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How to facilitate a community discussion using fishbowl

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My task: design and facilitate a two-hour community discussion in response to a bombshell announcement made by the largest employer in my tiny rural hometown of Marlboro, Vermont. All three of these techniques are covered in detail in my latest book Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need.).