Tag Archives: work

The Attendee IS the Event

Occasionally I hear planners or suppliers talking about their experience with attendees as if the attendee is a complete inconvenience to them. Believe me, I’ve encountered my fair share of EGR (extra grace required) attendees. They present themselves in the form of those who reply to your email asking a question that you answered inContinue reading “The Attendee IS the Event”

Point Of No Return

Seasoned event planners can identify this pivotal moment in time. We can because we’ve bumped into it enough to know how painful and unnecessary it is when we’ve done our due diligence to ask the questions and schedule the conversations, implement timelines, processes, and procedures, and check, double-check, and triple-check the checklists we’ve developed overContinue reading “Point Of No Return”

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”

I Have a Contract!

I’m sure all of you who plan events at a conference or convention center have worked with a delightful, cooperative, helpful, and knowledgeable Convention Services Manager (CSM) who follows your contract to the letter and never throws you a curveball right? You’ve never required multiple phone calls about your meeting space being reallocated to anotherContinue reading “I Have a Contract!”