Not long ago, ethics training was the exception rather than the rule in corporate America. Now, the majority of companies — 69 percent compared to just 37 percent in 1994, according to the Ethics Resource Center, Washington, D.C. — delivers this...
A new must-read has rolled off the presses at Meeting Professionals International. The third position paper from its Global Corporate Circle of Excellence tackles planner-supplier relationships in a strategic meeting management environment — that...
The good news: Meeting planners and facilitators both want the same thing: the success of a client's meeting. The not-so-good news: Most planners don't know how to work with facilitators or truly understand how they can help them to do their jobs...
WHEN KATRINA BLEW THROUGH the Gulf states, she just may have blown your budget for meeting cancellation insurance as well...
To measure is to know. These are the words of Lord Kelvin, 19th-century mathematical physicist. Another of his quotable phrases: “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” Indeed, meeting executives are wise to take his thinking to heart...
With growth in attendance, net square footage of exhibition space, exhibitors, and revenue, the exhibition industry showed signs of recovery in 2004, according to the second annual Center For Exhibition Industry Research Index...
IN THE ERA OF SARBANES-OXLEY, corporate boards are in the spotlight more than ever — and so are board meetings. Board Strategies, a resource for corporate board members developed by SecTec LLC, Research Triangle Park, N.C., offers the following...
THE INITIALISM ROI appears regularly in industry articles and is widely used by meeting planners and suppliers alike, yet there is confusion around the true meaning of the term. Many use the term ROI to mean cost savings or cost avoidance, while...
I lived and worked in London for many years before moving to the United States. Subsequent to the bomb attacks of July 7 and the attempted bombings two weeks later, I have thought about the thousands of times I traveled across London on the...