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Business Travel Strikes Back, A New Company Culture Dawns

Smart Meetings

While “90% of large companies have committed to hybrid work plans [that reduce] the touch points that once conveyed company culture, for all companies, including those which never went remote, unprecedented reports of burnout are signaling that businesses must quickly adapt,” said GBT. We learned quickly how well the remote model worked.

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

Smart Meetings

What types of customer service training are you doing for your employees? Read More : 10 Questions to Ask a Potential Event Vendor Your AV provider’s technicians will be interacting with your staff, your presenters and your audience. What does your training program look like for new hires? Minimize the downside.

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Hybrid is Dead: A View from the Stage

Smart Meetings

Expos are a place for attendees to meet with vendors, which allows them to be able to see and touch new products. Clients save the cost of travel, food and hotel for employees and find that the feedback they receive on the quality of training is just as good. It’s difficult to give a true hybrid experience to remote viewers.

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Vibe Interactive Whiteboard: Your New Ally For Amazing Events!

Endless Events

Not only did organizations have to shift to virtual with their experiences, but they also had to learn the ropes of remote work. It combines a 55” touchscreen with a fantastic 4K display that activates meetings, training sessions, and presentations. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a series of challenges to the events industry.

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The Evolution of Meetings: Lessons for Navigating a Hybrid Future

Smart Meetings

Continue to train staff on hybrid meeting planning. For instance, if a meeting includes an awards ceremony or appreciation dinner, send the awards to recipients attending remotely in advance and have them pre-record acceptance speeches holding the award or ask them to upload photos so everyone can see all the recipients with their honors.

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Why Email Is Such a Time Suck

Convene by PCMA

Convene spoke with Simon several days before his session about how remote and hybrid work is causing us to rethink the best ways to collaborate. Is it more difficult to collaborate now that most of us work remotely at least part of the time? Here are some of his insights. It is harder, but in other aspects, it’s easier.

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Digital and Hybrid a ‘Great Change’ for the Industry

Convene by PCMA

I’m the one that is securing those production vendors to come in and capture my content and to stream my event. My role in that has always been — I’m the lead, I’m the customer,” Monroe said. I’m not the one who’s actually doing it — I’m the one signing the contract and paying for it.