Multitasking is something that few people do well. However, for those of us who are proficient at combining the right types of activities together to simultaneously provide mental space to one and rote movements to the other, we can get a lot done in a short period of time. This particular type of event isContinue reading “A Multitasker’s Dream”
Category Archives: leadership
Escaping Traditional Board Meetings
I was asked to plan an activity for a group of people as a break from their grueling two-day corporate meeting. They were in a conference center and had access to a couple other rooms, however we couldn’t leave the facility because of time constraints. My contact provided me with a list of activities theContinue reading “Escaping Traditional Board Meetings”
Prepping for the Future
As event attendance increases or your organization expands the number of events it hosts, the infrastructure of the organization needs to be prepared to grow as well. Actually, organizations who are future-focused are already planning how they will develop their staff and structures now before their growth happens. If there is no strategy for expandingContinue reading “Prepping for the Future”
Get More Done & Talk Less
So many of us have sat in those meetings where the person running the show has completely lost control. The attendees are having side conversations; people are talking about their upcoming weekend plans, others are commiserating about their child’s eating habits, some are falling asleep at the table, and the facilitator has crawled under theContinue reading “Get More Done & Talk Less”
How Do You Keep Up?
As an event planner, how do you keep up with changes? When covid hit, I was working with a group to turn a 3-day in-person event into an online experience. We literally changed everything we were doing in mere months. Online platform technology was changing every time we opened our eyes. When we could meetContinue reading “How Do You Keep Up?”