Smart Meetings

JANUARY 25, 2022

Read more tips for negotiating contracts amid Covid. . Now Global Head of Events, Training and Certification at Amazon Web Services, she has realized that the challenges meeting professionals are facing and the way they are learning has changed since she published her book pre-Covid. Contract and Negotiation Tips.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A Renewed Group Focus “Just hold the contracted meetings that are on the books and minimize the cancellations that have occurred in prior years due to the pandemic, economic uncertainty and a general reluctance to hold in-person meetings,” said Dan Piotrowski, senior vice president of operations for Omni Hotels.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Unionized hotels provide the stability and training that hospitality workers are seeking—they could be part of the solution to the shortage that meeting planners are waiting for. They negotiate for higher wages, improved benefits including retirement plans and family healthcare, job training, due process and safety concerns.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 28, 2023

By signing a contract with a venue, meeting planners can quickly lose their freedom to choose their AV provider. What types of customer service training are you doing for your employees? What does your training program look like for new hires? Sometimes, unfortunately, that is easier said than done. Minimize the downside.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Adjusting Training Tactics Attention spans, in general, may have become the length of a TikTok video, but this also means associations are moving to meet the challenge. The topic that we are really trying to wrap our arms around here at ASAE, because we’re on this journey like every association, is accessibility and neurodiversity.”

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 25, 2024

Like many associations, SMFM signs contracts with its host destinations years in advance. That clause allowed SMFM to exit a contract up to two years prior to the meeting date if the state passed a law banning abortion pre-viability. Gerard, CMP, chief program officer, meetings, membership, and marketing at SMFM.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 2, 2023

Cross-training staff allows you to delegate tasks to team members so that multiple people can support when needed. Create an implementation strategy to address training and onboarding and starting the initial build. “Is this software going to make your planning experience more efficient? Implementation You got your tech ready?

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 19, 2023

However, hotel employees are only sometimes trained in AV or sound design and quotes can get muddled when negotiating what is needed and expected from the event space team. Always be sure to read contracts carefully! Meeting professionals may run the risk of dealing with hidden fees. Production companies do it all.

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ADMEI

MARCH 20, 2024

ADMEI Conference attendees can walk away with templates for contracting, employee onboarding materials, supplier relations, answers to burning legal questions from our well-loved “ask an attorney” session, and more. Want to delve deeper? Visit belightconsulting.com to connect with Jeska Brodbeck.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 25, 2022

Read more tips for negotiating contracts amid Covid. . Now Global Head of Events, Training and Certification at Amazon Web Services, she has realized that the challenges meeting professionals are facing and the way they are learning has changed since she published her book pre-Covid. Contract and Negotiation Tips.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A recent survey takes the pulse of meeting planners, asking about budgets, contracts, airfares, virtual meetings, and more. Contracts: The survey asked planners about their number-one concern when negotiating a contract. If higher costs are your challenge when executing events, one thing is for sure: You’re not alone.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

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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Smart Meetings

APRIL 29, 2021

It is a marathon, not a sprint, as even those who were previously in the hospitality industry must be trained on new sanitation protocols. “It That’s why GES launched Flex Talent Pool in Las Vegas in January to help provide trained, temporary staffing. It has been a roller coaster ride,” she says.

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Travel Daily News

MARCH 29, 2023

In addition to training new ab initio pilots, SWISS will be recruiting trained first officers with or without a current type rating for the next few years. Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) was unable to train any new pilots during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

They are jobs, the report’s authors wrote, which require “abstract reasoning skills and a high degree of personal interaction and collaboration, such as the negotiation of contracts, the development of educational programs,” as well as “coordinating with others to resolve problems.”

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Thousands of downtown Chicago hotel workers went on strike Friday morning after contracts expired at 25 downtown convention and boutique hotels. Unite Here Local 1 , the union for housekeepers, servers, cooks and doormen, had warned of a possible walkout when the previous contracts expired on August 31.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 22, 2022

It is typical to scroll through your phone while waiting for a flight or train,” he says. If your phone allows you to change SIM cards, a trip to an airport or train station phone store is all you need. However, when on vacation, people tend to forget about their online security.”.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

All customer-facing employees at hotels must now be trained to recognize signs of trafficking, while information helpful to victims must be posted in public. According to this article by law firm Littler Global , the new laws require hotel owners to provide specific anti-human-trafficking awareness training to employees.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 29, 2022

New at Frankfurt was a Listening Lab staffed by trained coaches where people could book 20 minutes to talk about personal or business issues with professional listeners instructed to ask probing questions. Right now, the contract is through 2025, but we’re already talking about continuing,” she said.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 30, 2023

increase in education and training but with a decrease in pure hospitality or entertainment at 23.5%. “If Diem agreed and said she has seen more sustainability concerns at the RFP level. “I’ve Exchange Over Entertainment Finally, the FICP study showed a 47.1% increase in networking and relationship building, 41.2%

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 13, 2023

After working without a contract since September 1 and authorizing a strike on December 8, members of Culinary Local 226 and Bartenders Local 165 in Las Vegas came within just six hours of walking off the job at the Las Vegas Convention Center before securing a new contract with foodservice supplier Sodexo on March 10.

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Business Traveler USA

JULY 21, 2021

billion contract with California-based Siemens Mobility Inc. Features and amenities of the new trains. The contract includes up to 83 multi-powered train sets that will be deployed on state and northeast services, with further options for up to 130 additional trains to support Amtrak growth plans. Image: Siemens.

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Travel Daily Media

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Since 2016, the KSA has awarded construction contracts with a total value of $250bn and has launched approx. Training hotel teams is vital in an expanding market – Knowland is committed to ensuring hotel teams can take advantage of the data insight by continuous education and consultation with our partners.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 7, 2024

Ask it to make the event more sustainable, design a networking event for people who are not outgoing, incorporate a sponsor in a meaningful way or mark up a contract as if it were a lawyer. How can you refine the question to get what you really need? Ask for suggestions about how to work better with a partner based on their LinkedIn profile.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What does your hotel contract say about surcharges and fees? It’s a reminder to clearly spell out in event contracts what the charges will be for rooms and related services, and then have a clause saying that no other mandatory fees can be charged without the group's consent,” Grimes says.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 8, 2021

On Global Meetings Industry Day, hospitality-sales veterans detailed how availability, contracting, and staffing will be different for meetings after the pandemic. This will require more training to bring employees up to speed on servicing not just the business elements of meetings, but also the guest-experience side. “To

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Motivation Excellence

AUGUST 27, 2019

From strategy and planning to booking flights to negotiating contracts, there is a lot on the line. Outsourcing your program saves much of the time associated with recruiting, training, and managing in-house staff, giving you more time to focus on your core business. Ready for the Unexpected.

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Open Destinations

MAY 22, 2023

On the flip side, external outsourcing teams are continuously trained and utilising the latest tools and techniques. By leveraging business support services, you can access a team of dedicated experts without the overhead of hiring and training new staff.

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Open Destinations

MAY 22, 2023

On the flip side, external outsourcing teams are continuously trained and utilising the latest tools and techniques. By leveraging business support services, you can access a team of dedicated experts without the overhead of hiring and training new staff.

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Gavel International

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Are workloads distributed in a manner that makes logical sense based on experience, knowledge, years on the job, training, complexity of tasks/projects, etc.? EVALUATE THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT. Both you and your employees have psychological contracts with the same organization. ( RECOGNIZE THE EVOLUTION OF EACH EMPLOYEE.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 26, 2023

To ensure the level of service they expect, planners should include in meeting contracts minimum personnel numbers for the hotel’s event-services team as well as for meals and receptions. This legislation would help hotels address critical staffing needs by allowing asylum seekers to work as soon as 30 days after applying for asylum.”

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Traveler's Q

APRIL 3, 2023

When booking ahead of time, be sure to read the contract thoroughly and understand when payment deadlines and cancellation policies take effect. When you select a photographer who meshes well with your vision and style, you won’t need to spend as much time training them or guiding them on how to capture the moments accurately.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Their offerings include a deliberately diverse professional speakers bureau, training and facilitation programs, as well as association management and advisory services. He also served as the planning committee chair for the 2017 Annual Exhibit Training and Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. of lawyers in the State of Texas.

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Creative Group Inc

OCTOBER 21, 2021

From large general sessions to technical trainings to small breakouts, reserving the right blocks of meeting space is critical. With current compression in hotel availability, contracts should be signed well in advance — and don’t forget to grab space for last minute pop-up meetings!

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 11, 2022

As a result, “we’ve added a request to some contracts for proof of enough adequately trained employees three months prior to the group’s arrival.”. Hotels themselves have found ways to simplify service to get through the labor crisis.

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Convene by PCMA

MAY 9, 2023

Generative Pre-train Transformer (GPT) GPT, an AI programme that can write like a human, is one such example. It is trained by searching through written texts like websites, online articles, books, and social media. It can be used to help users understand legal contracts by summarising them into key provisions with recommendations.

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Social Tables

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Hand service: All guests seated at a table are served at precisely the same time by highly trained white-glove service staff. Invest in additional training Event service can be quite different from waiting tables—in both volume and style of service. Hors d’ oeuvres service: Servers pass through an event with small bites on trays.

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