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Known for its high-quality content, Convene offers a monthly series of must read articles organized around CMP knowledge areas that, along with an online test and essay, enables readers to easily earn CEs.
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Convene CMP Series: June 2025
Article: Meetings in Flux
Results from our recent pulse survey of event organizers reveal a lack of clarity about what sweeping U.S. policy changes may mean for events, what comes next, and how best to move forward. Here’s what some event industry professionals are seeing — and anticipating.
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EIC DOMAIN A: STRATEGIC PLANNING
Convene CMP Series: April 2025
Article: Measuring Emotion
While meeting organizers understand the primary role that emotional engagement and experiential factors play in their events, they find those things difficult to measure. We’ve set out to explore how to define, design and how to quantify emotional engagement and make meaningful improvements as a result.
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EIC DOMAIN L: EVALUATION PROCESS
Convene CMP Series: February 2025
Article: Building a Circular Economy in Events: How Two Major Meetings Reimagined Sustainability
Business events have long been designed with this one-off/single-use mentality. How can we adopt more of a reduce, reuse, recycle approach?
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EIC DOMAIN C: SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT
Convene CMP Series: December 2024
Article: How Events Can Foster Emotional Engagement
By providing participants with a sense of trust, the feeling of belonging, and the satisfaction of socially connecting with others, events become more than places to learn and network.
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EIC DOMAIN H: EVENT DESIGN
Convene CMP Series: September-October 2024
Article: Architects of Connection
Planners share how they are being more intentional about helping their event participants make more meaningful connections.
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EIC DOMAIN H: EVENT DESIGN
Convene CMP Series: July-August 2024
Article: In Search of Something Better for the Events Industry
We asked event professionals to open up to us about the deeply ingrained ways in which the industry does business that need rethinking — and to consider: If we eliminate those sacred cows, what should we do instead?
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EIC DOMAIN A: STRATEGIC PLANNING
Convene CMP Series: March-April 2024
Article: Coach Class
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.
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EIC DOMAIN E: HUMAN RESOURCES
Convene CMP Series: January-February 2024
Article: Learning to Listen
Listening is a skill essential tor the knowledge exchange that takes place at business events, but how can organizers cultivate better listening behavior among our audiences? Convene reached out to four listening experts and one of the world’s top experts on coaching for their advice
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EIC DOMAIN F: STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT
