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On Site: What’s New for Meetings in New Orleans
While in New Orleans, a city known for its longstanding and colorful traditions, Convene Senior Editor Jennifer N. Dienst finds a wave of revitalization is forging a new kind of visitor experience.
A New Funding Model for Hotel Development
The Indianapolis City Council will take over financing for a convention center hotel. Is this a sign of things to come?
5 Ways to Use AI to Help Spark Event Session Ideas
Artificial intelligence is the new power tool for events, but keep in mind its limitations — and be ready to verify and edit the information it gives you.
Want Better Pay? Take a Hike
A new Stanford study suggests that women can get more out of what they want in negotiations, including salary discussions, if they step away from the negotiating table and go for a walk instead.
Should You Break the Bank to Hire a Celebrity Speaker?
More seats remain empty at keynote and main sessions. Here’s why featuring celebrities probably isn’t the answer to filling them — and what audiences care about instead, according to research from Freeman.
What the Back-to-the-Office Challenge Has to Do With In-Person Events
We asked The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce authors Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley for their insights on what an empowered workforce portends for events.
Does Leading With Empathy Mean You’re a Pushover?
We asked The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce authors Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley to share how to lead teams with greater empathy — and why that doesn’t make you ineffectual.
What Does an Event Designed With Empathy Look Like?
The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce coauthors and future of work and technology strategists Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley — an in-demand speaker and former event organizer, respectively — offer their perspectives on how empathetic design changes the participant experience.
Practicing Empathy at Work and Events
Empathy is not just a soft skill that’s necessary to cultivate to lead teams and design events post-pandemic, it’s practical and effective.
CEO on Creating ‘a Kind Place’ for Staff Members
A conversation with Zena Burgess, the CEO of the Australian Psychological Society, on demonstrating empathy with a remote workforce.
Giving Meeting and Event Participants a Voice
What happened when one organization invited its members to help redesign its annual meeting.
‘It’s About Having Empathy All the Way Around’
In their new book, The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce, future of work and technology strategists Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley argue that post-pandemic, the world’s workforce is empowered with agency and autonomy, and the old ways of managing people no longer apply.