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Steer Clear of These 8 Pitfalls: A Guide to Excellent Corporate Event Outcomes

Smart Meetings

Read More : The Overlooked RFP Asks That Could Save The Planet Effective event planning is built on the pillars of clear leadership, efficient communication, budget awareness, timely initiation of plans, and strict adherence to deadlines. This approach will help maintain focus and efficiency in communication.

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How to Build a Risk Assessment Checklist

Smart Meetings

The definition of “risk” has grown beyond the traditional definitions of financial, operational, reputational and security issues meeting professionals checked off their list as they prepared to bring people together in days of old. That is a lot to consider: create what-if scenarios for and rehearse responses to “just in case.”.

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Get to Know ME with Trisha Neff

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My title is Tech Project Manager, and I’ve worked here for 25 years, starting in 1998 at VIKTOR when it was “Viktor Weyand Travel Service.” What do you like about being a Tech Project Manager? It was the first time I had traveled alone and had to rely on myself for everything, including communicating solely in Chinese!

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Virtual Event and Webinar Speaker Management and Prep: 7 Tips For Building Better Relationships

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It’s time to tackle speaker management for your event. . As important as it is to find speakers , it’s only the first step in event speaker management. Once you’ve secured your speakers, you must prepare them for the event to ensure everything runs smoothly and that they feel comfortable throughout the process.

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Contingency Plans Save the Day for Events, Again and Again

Smart Meetings

By being prepared for any last-minute disruptions, you can go into your event confident that you and your team will know how to handle anything thrown at you. Hargrove, however, was prepared with a swift response. But what do you do when something unexpected threatens the flawless experience you’ve worked so hard to create?

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17 Common Event Planning Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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Neglecting to test your technology Any event that includes digital presentations, sound, or lighting cues should be rehearsed prior to the big day. Whether hosting a live, virtual, or hybrid event, rehearsing is an important part of the planning process, especially when digital technology or media are involved.

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Everything You Need To Know About Planning A Successful Corporate Event

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They are vulnerable here with our coverage of OKRs as well, so take the extra step to effectively delineate the difference between OKRs and SMART goals as they would contextually pertain to corporate event management, information that our top-ranking competitor did not share. Prepare and print event collateral. None at all, perhaps?

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