BRUCE BOLGER IS A MAN WITH A MISSION: to get people to finally understand incentives. Two years ago, Bolger, president of Selling Communications in Irvington, N.Y., and several incentive industry leaders, in conjunction with Northwestern...
THE TURBULENT ECONOMY has permanently changed many companies' view of outsourcing meeting planning, says Dawn Penfold, president, Meeting Candidate Network Inc., a New York placement company for meeting planners. Penfold started a new division of...
The Professional Convention Management Association, Chicago, is about seven months into a process of developing a list of core competencies its members need to improve and expand their meetings in today’s increasingly competitive environment. "We...
The economy might be recovering, but for meeting planners, the job landscape is forever changed. Companies may start hiring again, but cutbacks, consolidation, and accountability — the buzz words of the past three years — will remain part of the...
As signs of the country’s economic recovery grow stronger—corporate profits surging, stock market rebounding—expectations are that the job market will follow suit as in previous recoveries. But as recent job growth figures show, this recovery is...
While there has been a certification program for incentive travel professionals for some time, the merchandise side of the business never had one. Until now...
Women at the Negotiating Table With women comprising such a large percentage of the meeting planning world—and getting paid less than their male colleagues--a book to be published in October 2003 called Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender...
While the association world’s lawyers, economists, and insurance office heads saw the biggest rise in salaries last year, meetings and conventions directors also got a bit of a compensation bump, from a mean of $59,772 in 2001 to $60,500 in 2002...