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A Breakdown of Post-Pandemic Contract Clauses

Smart Meetings

If you are seeking legal advice, consult with a professional. Post-Covid Contract Solutions.”. We’ll delve into a condensed review to address what and what not to include in your venue contract, as well as negotiation tactics and what can potentially trigger a force majeure. Read more contract tips from Ty Sheaks.

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Five ways explicit communication improves meetings

Conferences that Work

But often, explicit communication — saying or writing what’s needed to guide or influence desired behavior — improves matters over staying silent or beating around the bush. Here are five examples of how explicit communication improves meetings. A little explicit pre-party communication will improve your meeting.

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What Happens When “Fear” Majeure Is Used to Postpone or Cancel an Event?

Smart Meetings

Again, it depended on whether the applicable contract contained a force majeure provision and whether that provision was the “long” or “short” form (i.e. Again, this can be addressed either initially in the contract, or by negotiating additional addendums or riders to the contract after the fact.

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Unlocking The Secret Weapon of a Corporate Planner

Smart Meetings

Master planner consultants offer 6 tips for negotiating your next corporate event Does this sound familiar? How can you word the hotel contract to protect your company? How can you word the hotel contract to protect your company? Communicate with all stakeholders as soon as you know something.”

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Top Hospitality Heroes Win Housekeepers Award

Smart Meetings

The last two years, of course, have been fraught with fear of Covid contraction—and for no one more so than the essential workers charged with maintaining the cleanliness and order of dozens, sometimes hundreds of hotel guest rooms. But despite the danger, hotel housekeepers were and continue to be on the front lines of hospitality.

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

We are basically project managers, but unlike technology projects, you can’t move the deadline and unlike before 2020, you can’t let contracts sit.”. Meetings consultant Jeff Calmus, a former vice president of global event management for MetLife, agreed about the importance of managing up. Choices, Choices. Tell a Story.

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Meeting Safety Trends in 2022

Smart Meetings

It’s not just Covid-19 (C19) and it’s much more than F&B , room blocks and hotel contracts. He’s a sought-after consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His safety topics have included site selection, event safety, emergency operations and crisis communications. Here are some things to consider.

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