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Mindful Meetings for the Full Mind

Smart Meetings

The time has come for us to take proactive steps to address these challenges in the corporate meeting space. As a corporate meeting and event industry professional with over 25 years of experience, I have witnessed first-hand the negative impacts of work-related stress.

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Life on Cruz Control: A Meeting Veteran’s Hope for the Future

Smart Meetings

Editor’s Note: As we celebrate the 2023 Meeting Professionals of the Year , we thought it fitting to go back to a 2020 Meeting Professionals of the Year winner, John Cruz, senior corporate meeting planner with BlueCross of North Carolina , for some perspective. Then, provide the extras that show you care.

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Winning at the Game of Employees, Distractions and Productivity

Gavel International

Distracted employees present an even greater problem when it comes to meetings. Take the people who dislike meetings, combine them with those who appreciate meetings but have trouble focusing during them, and add in-house meetings that are too long or aren’t productive.

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Making Meetings More Productive with Brainstorming

Gavel International

Reading Time: 6 minutes Have you ever been in a meeting where the moderator suddenly announced that everyone in attendance would be brainstorming? Dull, boring, or stifling environments are what hinder growth and worse yet, can lead to lower employee engagement, productivity, and effectiveness. Of course, you have!

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The Psychology Behind Planning Effective Offsite Meetings

Gavel International

Reading Time: 4 minutes If your company has an onsite or remote working structure, it is very important to hold offsite meetings for employees throughout the year. These meetings serve a different purpose from their daily or weekly counterparts. Onsite internal meetings typically involve discussing projects or creating strategies.

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Cost Savings for Corporate Meetings, Incentive Travel, and Channel Incentives

Brightspot Incentive Events

With pent-up demand, higher fuel costs, and labor shortages, the meeting cost per attendee is a whopping 25% higher than it was in 2019, according to the 2023 Global Business Travel Forecast , released this month by travel management company CWT and the Global Business Travel Association. Hotel Contracting Savings. Second-Tier Cities.

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6 Effective Strategies to Politely Halt Interruptions During Meetings

Gavel International

Reading Time: 4 minutes Distractions and interruptions during corporate meetings are annoying. When a disruption from an attendee occurs, it can take the meeting off track and/or cause it to run over time. 1 ) More than 60% of employees multitask during virtual meetings. ( Look attendees directly in the eye.

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