Tip of the month Planning a luncheon meeting? Consider a breakfast meeting instead. Why? No alcohol is served; minds are fresh; there's a built-in deadline (people have to get to work), and it's the first activity on everyone's agenda...
At the Newport Beach, Calif. based Lunsford Group, there's an employee known as the "Get a Life Administrator." This individual has a unique charge: "to seek out ways the company can cater to employees' individualized needs and enhance their job...
Every time we bring our readers together, they begin to swap stories about their experiences with different destinations or properties. So we launched an occasional feature in Corporate Meetings & Incentives, "Readers Recommend," where we...
Salespeople at The Men's Wearhouse face a tough task every day: convincing customers to buy something they really don't want. As founder and Chief Executive Officer George Zimmer has put it, for many men, a trip to a store to buy a suit ranks...
Daniels Summit Lodge After a $6 million renovation, the rustic but elegant Daniels Summit Lodge is open for small corporate groups. The original Daniels Summit Lodge, at the edge of the Uinta National Forest in Park City, Utah, was built in 1907...
Imagine if you could analyze your top performers through a microscope, identify the traits that make them successful, and then train everyone else in the organization to act in the same way. Though to some this might sound a bit too Orwellian, to...
The "hangover" on Jan. 1, 2000 (Y2K) from the failure of computers and microprocessors to process the date may be painful. Here's what you can do to make sure your office sails through...
With the growth in outsourcing of meeting planning, one type of meeting industry supplier is becoming increasingly popular: the site selection firm. These firms come in all shapes and colors: Some handle destination research and contract...