Meeting planners are experts at providing the production needed to create good experiences around meeting content. But sometimes their focus on logistics overlooks a key way to fundamentally improve learning, connection, engagement, and action ou...

One good thing about long commutes is that they give people like Daniel Guinee, MBA, CHCP, lots of time to listen to ebooks. When Guinee, who is executive vice president of continuing medical education provider ASiM, started listening to The Powe...

You have everyone together in one room facing the stage—now what? A corporate event or annual meeting is only as effective as its script is engaging. Here are five tips to write a script that will keep their rapt attention throughout the entire g...

Jere Thomas is a brave soul. Midway through her presentation at the Pharma Forum, she asked her audience of medical meeting professionals and suppliers to reveal, via audience response technology, what other tasks they’d been tending to...

Roger Haskett, owner and director of Engagement Unlimited, on how meeting planners can turn attendees into participants

What if you could bring together an engaged group of people with different backgrounds and expertise but with a shared passion to innovate solutions for a monumentally challenging problem?  Would real solutions be found? One model for this typ...

FOMO, or the fear of missing out, is that feeling that everyone is having more fun than you are. You know it—it’s how you feel when you scroll through your social media feeds and see all those shiny, happy people doing shiny, happy...

Strategies for keeping attendees engaged and focused