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Price-Conscious Wow: How Meeting Planners Find More Value With AV Partners

Smart Meetings

Instead of concentrating on the number of screens you had last year or equipment assignments per room, different questions during the preparation stage may help you find the right, long-term AV provider. What types of customer service training are you doing for your employees? What does your training program look like for new hires?

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8 Engagement Tips for Your Next Hybrid Event

Smart Meetings

Hybrid events—whether they are conferences, expos or training courses—are meetings that can be accessed in person at a physical location, or remotely via an online platform. These features can encompass e-books, white papers, video tutorials, training simulations or study guides. Don’t try to replicate in-person events.

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Business Travel Strikes Back, A New Company Culture Dawns

Smart Meetings

GBT found that business travel is far from crushed under the weight of shifting business goals, and instead, is taking new shape as a prime and prepared vessel for reinvigorating inclusive, successful company cultures. We learned quickly how well the remote model worked. The Great Reprioritization.

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Meeting Job Candidates Have Changed. Are You Prepared?

MeetingsNet

Organizations faced pandemic-driven layoffs and most had to adapt to the necessity of remote collaboration. Not surprisingly, the dominant work-life issue for candidates is the option to work remotely. In interviews with new candidates, “Can I work remotely?” It’s been an intense few years for U.S. workplaces.

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Event Tech: Survive and Thrive Guide

Smart Meetings

Krueger began by recounting a virtual event hiccup that occurred despite doing all the necessary preparations. We were unable to connect to the platform from our remote location where we were broadcasting. We’re seeing a lot of investments being made in venues to do that in hotels and train stations all over the world.

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Hybrid events at Pentahotel Leipzig: Stay Local Go Global

The MICE Blog

The hotels were located in major airline hubs, guaranteeing high occupancy rates. Mr Schieck added, ‘It’s necessary to know the city where the hotel is located and provide a certain consistency. In Germany, the sustainability projects will be implemented depending upon where the hotels are located in the local communities.

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Site Selection Consultants Speak: 6 Takeaways from IEDC Leadership Summit

DCI

Unsurprisingly, they also want the option to work remotely, and it doesn’t look like this will be changing any time soon. So, what are companies supposed to do? If they want workers to come back to a physical location, they need to step up their game and make it enticing for them to do so. The panel’s honest advice?