Planning Tools

Streamline your planning. These tools are for your use, all with the goal of making you more efficient and effective as a meeting professional.

 

APEX Tools

APEX is the Accepted Practices Exchange to bring together all stakeholders in the development and implementation of industry-wide accepted practices to create and enhance efficiencies throughout the meetings, conventions and exhibitions industry.

Checklists

Streamline your planning. PCMA is pleased to provide checklists for your use, all with the goal of making you more efficient and effective as a meeting professional. The checklists below, when used in conjunction with the content in Professional Meeting Management 5th edition, will provide you with a comprehensive pool of resources for successful meeting management.

MeetingMetrics

MeetingMetricsSM is an online meeting research and measurement service that will deliver the quality of a customized survey at a fraction of the cost. This service is based on 25 years of pre- and post-meeting survey results from numerous Fortune 500 companies. Thanks to PCMA's partnership with Starwood Hotels and Resorts, MeetingMetricsSM is now available at a special discounted price for PCMA members.

PMM5 Postscripts

If you're looking for even more resources to help you plan smarter, faster, and more efficiently, check out PMM5 PostscriptsTM. Each Postscript is an easy-to-read supplement to a chapter of Professional Meeting Management, fifth edition and provides even more information and additional resources on the critical topics that are important to you.

Space Verification

Through this new program, facilities are able to provide meeting professionals with Certified Room Diagrams™ that are guaranteed to be accurate within one-fourth of an inch. Maximize room sets and take the guesswork out of capacity and set-up constraints through this software.