Smart Meetings

JANUARY 25, 2024

It’s about actively modeling your values on a daily basis and setting expectations for your team. This realization about culture struck me profoundly several years ago when I led the opening team for a new hotel in Portland , Oregon. ” The room quieted and the team exchanged nervous glances.

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Motivation Excellence

JANUARY 22, 2024

We recently wrote about our take on the strength of incentive travel in 2024 (spoiler, it’s good!). Things Are Already Bustling in 2024 Our sales team is already busy with site visits (Australia, among others) and programs operating in warm weather areas in the Caribbean. Costa Rica and Japan deserve mentions too. It’s gorgeous!

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 19, 2024

From the tight-knit camaraderie within my team, the quiet hum of the hotel staff, the energy of the production crew and the excitement among the attendees, all this energy under one roof is where I thrive best.” Once, her team planned a community health summit in San Francisco. Design guides my approach to event management.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2024

Given the free time the WSWA team had, the association chose 2023 as the year to introduce a rebrand and additional changes to its event. Nelly “The energy at our first show back was more than I have ever seen before. Attendees enjoyed the new elements of our show and the closing night party with Nelly as our performer was amazing.

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Motivation Excellence

MARCH 20, 2024

Nearly 75% of our entire team is female, including 83% of our salespeople and half of our top leadership positions. The latter is by design too. “When I bought the company in 2018, I made it a priority to make sure we had women in leadership roles after decades of having a vast majority male leadership team.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Tarin Horan, CMP, knew that meeting planning was the industry for her when she began interning with sports teams. After two years of hard work, she was promoted to Director of Programs and Events and led the events team. I love working with our members and designing great event experiences with fantastic speakers and content.”

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2023

Read More : Hospitality Industry Rushes to Support Wildfire Victims in Hawai’i Also, we are urging meeting attendees throughout Hawai‘i to be especially mindful and respectful as our community endures this extremely difficult time. The Hawaiian value of mālama means to care for—our people, place and ourselves. Any further comments?

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s something I’ve always loved and I think that it’s something our city is missing a little bit. The first week was their way to test the project and develop their proof of concept, Murray says, following up with several questions she and her team are now asking. Does this work? Are people going to get into it?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I am thankful for our health and acknowledge that we must take care of ourselves in mind, body and spirit. In my career, I am very grateful for my team members. I have the opportunity to shape our annual conference, creating event spaces where attendees can share, learn and grow. We enjoy lots of laughs, hugs and fun every day.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

“We started producing our wineries. Why don’t we market it and bring the people to our farm, [and] bring them to our winery.’ We want it to be our job to educate them and let them know what’s here….There’s That’s helping with our carbon emission reduction.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 29, 2024

A recent visit to Sedona Mago Center for Well-being for a taste of Body & Brain Wellness experiences in Arizona was a reminder that as meeting professionals, we have to look holistically at how we treat our guests physically, challenge them mentally and support them spiritually.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2024

She has a particular knack for company values, seeing them as a way to center and support Access as an organization from within, and providing employees with individual and team growth and prosperity. In 2020, she was part of the team that started the new Access and saw it grow to $175 million under their leadership.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

AUGUST 7, 2023

We are excited to share our latest team spotlight, Account Executive Becky Mason. Becky covers South Carolina and Coastal Georgia territory and is a joy to have on the team. Tourism creates and sustains many other periphery industries within our destinations – hotels, restaurants, attractions, grocery stores, gas, etc.;

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Motivation Excellence

JULY 17, 2023

The team at Motivation Excellence, a performance improvement incentive company headquartered near Chicago, is thrilled to accept the 2023 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® in the Nation designation! “We We work diligently as a company to show respect to our employees and foster an environment of collaboration and trust.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2023

During events, her team uses their own special events tool containing all the important information and key points to keep everyone aligned. Their digital team is currently developing an event platform to circulate information even more quickly to everyone involved. It’s great to be part of this change and contribute to the future.”

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Smart Meetings spoke with event psychology advisor, Victoria Matey, co-founder of Matey Events , to learn more about how we can improve our mental and behavioral health and what team building and wellness activities can do for meetings. When our behavioral health is good, we feel calm and happy.

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ADMEI

MARCH 19, 2024

Denise has been a part of the BBC team for over 22 years, promoted to Director in 2004 and Vice-President in 2021. While managing an entire team of DMC professionals at BBC Events, she continues to enhance the hospitality industry with team members who strive for excellence and pride in their craft.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 10, 2024

The hotel’s dedicated events team will execute every aspect of the event, from day-of coordination to the final farewell. Main Beach : Located on one of America’s most beloved beaches, The Del’s private Main Beach offers a stunning setting that scales as needed for receptions, dining and team-building activities.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 10, 2024

The hotel’s dedicated events team will execute every aspect of the event, from day-of coordination to the final farewell. Main Beach : Located on one of America’s most beloved beaches, The Del’s private Main Beach offers a stunning setting that scales as needed for receptions, dining and team-building activities.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 12, 2024

Women’s History Month is a fitting time to look at the leaders in our midst—regardless of their title—and learn from their heroic approach to hospitality innovation. We celebrated milestone moments in life together, became more than associates, found a common bond and invested in our relationships.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 22, 2024

Our team of experienced planning professionals is ready to make your job easier. Your guests will also appreciate how simple our airport is to navigate. Our Midtown and Riverwalk districts are filled with standout, locally owned restaurants, clubs, and gallery spaces. Take advantage of our Come See, Fly Free program.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 25, 2023

As event managers, our goal at the end of a long-awaited event is to ensure meeting planners and their constituents are happy. 2 destination for meetings in North America, and one can imagine our event spaces and hotel services at JW Marriott Nashville see great demand being that we are in the heart of the happenings.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 28, 2021

The “meeting” as defined by delivering content from a stage is getting shorter—or even nonexistent—as groups put emphasis on team bonding and book more activities than ever before. And while we are seeing a range of inquiries, our loyal, repeat groups are returning. Ty Brassie.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 5, 2023

Afghan refugees relocated to Phoenix Sheraton Phoenix Downtown teamed up with the Arizona Refugee Resettlement Program (RRP) just as the staffing crisis from Covid coincided with the Taliban reclaiming control of Afghanistan in August of 2021, forcing more than 1,500 refugees to seek asylum in Phoenix. So, Christmas was super important.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

We witness corporate CEOs prioritizing events to engage their teams as they wrestle with the impact of hybrid work. Great leaders know their audience, whether its customers, partners, board members or team members. The best teams actively seek feedback. Get to know your audience on a deeper level.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

How do they take care of themselves and their teams? Those who do not take time to tune in with their event teams are at a far greater risk for event planner burnout. That’s why today, the Event Brew hosts are tackling the topic of team building in the events industry. Building Amazing Event Teams.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Read More: Why CMPs Matter More Than Ever The SEPC at Maritz Sales and marketing services company Maritz partnered with EIC to launch the SEPC introductory course for 48 of its team members at its recent brand event, Activate. As signatories of the Net Zero Carbon for Events initiative, they are committed to Net Zero by 2050.

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Planner Certification Sustainability Education 246

Motivation Excellence

MARCH 4, 2024

Creating A Solution Working with our client’s financial and marketing teams, we examined historic sales, GP, and growth potential to develop a meticulous and reasonable goal-setting structure and tracking system. This fostered engagement between the customers and the sales team.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Over our 23 years in the professional event production industry, we’ve identified several key elements that often prevent our clients’ events from achieving outstanding success. Rather than being disheartened by these challenges, we’ve chosen to initiate a dialogue and educate our clients.

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Endless Events

JULY 5, 2022

Endless Events has recently celebrated its 15th birthday and we’ve decided to mark the occasion by hosting a very special #EventIcons episode in which our listeners could ask us any questions they want about Endless’ past, present, and future. What does the Endless Events team think of these changes?

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Motivation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Carrie Fox is a repeat employee, and we’re sure happy to have her back as a coordinator in our travel department! She’s our focus for this month’s Get to Know ME segment. Thanks, Carrie, for sharing your thoughts on our monthly questions. This month, our theme for social media is dealing with difficult conversations.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

You can be the best event planner in the world and have wonderful clients who love you, but none of that will matter if you don’t have a solid team of vendors to work with. We each play our role to bring an event to life so we need to be on good terms and work well together for the sake of the client’s event and our industry as a whole.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Smart Meetings sat down with experts Cathy Diem, director of sales for financial and insurance accounts at Hilton Worldwide, Katrina Kent, CMP, CMM vice president of Meetings Management and Event Strategy (MMES) team at Liberty Mutual Insurance and Jennifer C. I think there’s great energy in our industry right now.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The company’s leadership team approved a final ranked list of material issues from which the company would build its sustainability strategy. It will also ensure that people of all backgrounds are encouraged to join the team or visit the venue and face no fears of discrimination or inaccessibility.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

AUGUST 29, 2022

Help us welcome our newest team member, Whitney! Whitney has joined our team as a senior campaign specialist for Mississippi accounts. After 6 years at her last job, we are happy to welcome Whitney to the team. Whitney started her career in sales at Verizon Wireless.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2024

Healthy meeting strategies demonstrated included gifting, content, team building and F&B operations. I promise life is going to keep throwing challenges our way, but you will keep overcoming and life will reward you with unexpected gifts,” he concluded. Momentum is real.

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Dana Communications

MARCH 5, 2024

At Dana, our core belief is this: A brand is not just a logo, symbol or tagline – it is a living entity, a collection of perceptions and beliefs that live in the hearts and minds of your customers. Sometimes the need for change is obvious (check out our Brand Reckoning blog here ). Other times, not so much. We’re looking at you, Tesla.

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