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Why Onboarding Is Crucial for Employee Engagement
Considering that a new study finds that 64 percent of workers are less likely to remain at a job if their onboarding experience is negative, here’s what new employees say really matters to them when starting out at a new organization.
3 Tips to Accommodate Food Sensitivities
As more attendees make special meal requests, event organizers should follow this advice to send them home satisfied.
5 Steps to Creating a Scalable, Flexible Event with Solid Video Strategy
Mediasite Events offers interactive video tools and analytics designed to maximize your meeting or event’s outcome.
How Technology Can Help Tell Deeply Human Stories
Here’s a striking example of using technology — 3D holograms to be specific — to preserve human history, for our benefit. Underscore the benefit part.
Hamburg From Market to Table — Every Step of the Way
During a Hamburg fam trip, Convene’s David McMillin and event professionals, guided by a chef, shopped for and prepared a meal. Here’s what he learned about chanterelles, plums, and team-building in the process.
Eat Your Way Around the World in Toronto
This city’s multicultural restaurant scene showcases the diversity of its communities.
HospitableMe’s Mission: Teaching LGBTQ Sensitivity
HospitableMe helps tourism and hospitality industry professionals make LGBTQ travelers feel welcome. Sometimes, its founder says, that requires “a little bit of history, a little bit of sociology, a little bit of biology, a little bit of Ripley’s Believe It or Not, to kind of bring [them] around.”
Leah Weiss
Weiss, Ph.D., teaches students how to be more compassionate leaders, including those at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where Weiss has taught “Leading With Mindfulness and Compassion.”
Glass Cactus at Gaylord Texan: Making Midsize Meetings Something Special
With upscale, renovated meeting spaces and unique lakefront amenities, an event at the Glass Cactus is anything but typical.
Rachel Carlton Abrams
Abrams, aka Doctor Rachel, is a board-certified family and integrative medicine physician and holistic health expert who — when not seeing patients — teaches classes and workshops, consults, and speaks to groups on a wide range of health issues.
News for Professionals: Career Advice and Ideas
Looking for ways to do your job better — or for the latest trends in the world of work? Here’s a roundup of career-related stories selected by the editors of Convene.
ASH Annual Meeting Gets Artsy for Attendee Wellness
The American Society of Hematology asked health-care practitioners, whose own wellness often takes a back seat, to answer the question, “What Keeps Your Heart in Medicine?”— through an art installation at its annual meeting.