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A New Wellness Menu Designed Exclusively for Meetings
A fresh initiative from Marina Bay Sands seeks to help business event attendees find a deeper sense of balance through a series of guided holistic experiences.
One Key to Preventing Your Team’s Burnout
Work can be difficult, but it shouldn’t be difficult all the time, shows new research from a management professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Executive Education.
What Makes a Great Place to Work
Responses to Convene’s Annual Salary Survey 2024 confirm the qualities of a healthy workplace culture recognized by workplace culture company Great Place to Work.
Chef Conference Cooks Up Conversations From Coast to Coast
In Philadelphia and Los Angeles, chefs and industry pros gather to tackle critical issues impacting chefs and hospitality workers such as mental health and the challenges women face.
What Art Can Teach Us About Networking
Finding a common interest — whether it be elephant sculptures, paintings, or something else — is one way to elevate conversations and cultivate connections.
For Women, Workplace Gains Are ‘Fragile’
McKinsey & Company’s tenth “Women in the Workplace” study reveals that there’s still a lot of work to be done to gain gender parity.
Event Organizers Double Down on Sustainability
According to our soon-to-be-published annual Meetings Market Survey, three out of five planners are including sustainability requirements in their RFPs, in addition to bolstering other efforts to check their events’ carbon footprint.
New Ways to Help Understand Extreme Heat Risks
Recent developments and tools that can help make it easier for meeting organizers to calculate and communicate the risks of extreme heat to meeting attendees.
‘Events Are the Thinking Machine of the World’
The first-ever Convene 4 Climate, held earlier this month in Barcelona, began with a TED-style talk by bonafide sustainability pioneer Paul Dickinson.
A New Way of Thinking
One key connection between DEI and sustainability is a shared commitment to challenging the status quo. While technology can help us solve some issues, it alone isn’t enough. We need to think and act in new ways.
Salary Survey 2024: It’s Not You, It’s the Company Culture
What’s the difference between planner respondents to this year’s Salary Survey who are happy in their jobs and those who are not? It doesn’t seem to be how they feel about the intrinsic nature of the role — which, even the most satisfied planners said, is challenging and demanding. It’s the organizations they work for.
Using the Pull Method — and Post-its — to Combat Work Overload
Here’s how a team of IT professionals used a spare office wall and sticky notes to prevent individual team members from getting overloaded — and to move projects along or kill them off. Also: how you could do the same.