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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

In fact, if approached with thoughtfulness and preparation, those interactions could lead to the meeting professionals taking a rightful place as strategic advisors. Read More : How to Plan Better Medical Meetings by the Numbers. His advice: “Give the whole picture rather than bringing decisions to a manager piecemeal.

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Best of 2021: Career Accelerator Webinars

Smart Meetings

Vital Lessons from Covid-era Medical Meetings. Two medical meeting professionals share their experiences and the lessons they’ve learned planning events around considerations such as changing CDC protocols, managing attendee comfort levels and rules for medical programming.

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Meeting-Negotiation Essentials: F&B, AV, and More

MeetingsNet

7 business-event pros weigh in on how to get what you need in an event contract and stay on budget. It featured seven planners and suppliers who offered their perspectives and advice for meeting organizers to get what they need while staying on budget. Sound familiar?

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What Do You Like Best About Your Job?

PCMA Convene

Less so the contracting, but more the sharing of ideas to make something work effectively in their space. Constantly meeting new people. Details, details, details and on-site management. Fitting pieces of the puzzle together; logistics management. Medical meeting industry is challenging!

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Time to Rebrand Third-Party Planners

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Donna Hunt, CEO and managing director for HMS Meeting Services (left), and Yashema Mack. Even though there are already too many acronyms in the meetings and events industry, you have to admit IMC has a ring to it, especially since we all accustomed to the roles of DMCs, or destination management companies.

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PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

At some point, I would like to branch out in my career and experience what meeting planning is like in the private sector. National Convention Sales Manager Explore St. Event Manager McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois, USA. I still remember the chills I had while watching her lead an executive meeting. HOLLY LAMMERT.

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Risk Management: Addressing Meeting Emergencies When the Industry Resumes

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Why should meeting professionals address risk? When it comes to risk management , there are two questions Coffey likes to pose to meetings planners: If an emergency were to occur during one of your meetings, do you think your client would expect you to know what to do or at least have an organized course of basic action?