With a need to reduce costs, and with the promise of substantial return on investment, insurance companies seem increasingly eager to use new technologies to communicate with and train their agents in the field. This has not always been the case...
Washington Mutual Senior Vice President for Internal Communication Rob Hallam and his 15-person planning team learned last October about company-wide budget cuts that would drastically affect the company's 16th annual “State of the Group” meeting...
THINGS ARE FINALLY looking up for financial services training, according to a panel at the March annual meeting of the International Association of Conference Centers in Dallas. Not only are companies spending more on series training — 10 or 20...
One of the virtues of insurance, according to Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker and president and founder of the Cartoon Bank, is that it can be pretty funny. “Humor helps you deal with anxieties we all have,” he says. The Cartoon Bank...
The National Business Travel Association has released its first white paper in the meetings arena. The 13-page report offers a high-level profile of the issues and best practices for corporations working toward a “strategic meetings management...
THIS YEAR, MARKETSHARE FINANCIAL INC. OF INDIANAPOLIS WILL HOLD its annual incentive meeting at the Trump Sonesta Resort in Miami Beach. ECA Marketing Inc. of Eden Prairie, Minn., will be sending its top producers on a seven-day Caribbean cruise...
AS I DISCOVERED at The Caves in Negril, Jamaica, not every all-inclusive hotel is a mega-playground. Rather, the Caves is a jewel-box retreat for top-tier incentive winners who have been, there, done that — and want to experience the kind of laid...