Special Series
This new Convene series, How Adults Learn, Now is intended to offer meeting professionals a new paradigm, focused on optimizing the adult learning experience.
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Document With Care: Contracting for Services with Independent Meeting Planners
Like any business activity involving two or more parties, it is imperative that the legal relationship between the association and the independent planner be contractually supported
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Pitfalls to Avoid When Negotiating Convention Center Licenses
Meeting planners need to be familiar with key legal issues in convention center contracts - called facility licenses - because the language is difficult to understand. They are full of pitfalls and contain liability-shifting language, and other provisions, with serious legal consequences to the event sponsor.
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As the city of New Orleans and other areas along the Gulf Coast start rebuilding from the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, many organizations with future events booked in those destinations are faced with tough decisions about keeping their meetings in place or canceling and relocating the meeting to another city.
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When Bad Things Happen to Good Meetings
Catastrophic acts or occurrences that have shaken the world in the last few years make it incumbent upon planners to objectively consider in advance how these events, collectively referred to as force majeure events in contracts, may impact their meetings.
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Leaders representing some of the most influential professional and trade associations in America convened at the Walt Disney World Resort, March 31-April 2, to participate in DigitalNow: Association Leadership in the Digital Age. The three-day program gave participants strategies to harness technology as an accelerator for the momentum of the organization.
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Anatomy of a Failed Negotiation
A negotiation is not like a magician's bag of tricks. There are no magical formulas or guaranteed tactics that will land you a raise. In fact, just the opposite is true: It is hard work. Those who are willing to prepare wisely will improve the probability of gain.
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A Skilled Negotiators' Strategies and Tactics
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In this first in a new series of columns on successful negotiating, we explore why the important "sfter side" negotiating might give women an advantage in this area of meeting management
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Be a Better Mentor
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Facility contracts - always a lively topic - and insurance (an area we know much more about since Sept.11) is the fifth meeting management function covered on the CMP exam
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Use your association lawyer effectively when reviewing and negotiating hotel contracts
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New Blueprints for Contingency Planning
Most everything within the control of meeting planners - from site selection to room block management, from security to insurance - has been called into review, and new blueprints created. In light of these developments, how much contingency planning is really going on?
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Associations sustained a hard lesson on Sept. 11, whether their meeting in progress was abruptly terminated or future meeting planning was disrupted. The Annual Meeting, for most associations, is the bread and butter on which the entire year?s budget is based. That asset must be protected at all costs.
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OfficeReady is the Latest APEX Tool, Automating Accepted Practices
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