As a manager, you might get blamed for something you couldn’t control. Here are some strategies to help you cope — and other career-related advice in this week’s roundup of workplace news and trends curated by the editors of Convene.

Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where.

Is your cell phone distracting you at work and slowing your productivity? (Not if you’re using it to read us online.) That and other career-related news in this week’s roundup of workplace advice and trends curated by the editors of of Convene.

Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where.

The black-tie event closed out a busy Business Events Industry Week in Washington, D.C.

Conferences can be overwhelming for some, but with a little planning they also can be productive and fun. Here’s how. That and other advice in this week’s roundup of career-related news and trends curated by the editors of Convene.

Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where.

Even if planners don’t have the resources to hire a professional coach, there are ways they can improve their speakers’ effectiveness.

Professional development expert Sally Foley-Lewis offers two common-sense tips to maximize your efficiency during hectic workdays.

WorldatWork’s Courtney Mesmer developed a speaker coaching program to improve the participant experience at her organization’s annual conference. That initiative not only transformed the conference but rippled throughout the organization.

Behavioral change management expert Dominic Thurbon on three challenges that leaders who are serious about change must grapple with. He will facilitate a session April 16 at PCMA APAC’s The Business of Events conference at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.

Fifteen years ago, she coached speakers for the first major TEDx event. Hayley Foster has since built that initial experience into a successful business.