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News for Professionals: Career Advice and Ideas
Four tips to help you be more productive — and yes, the afternoon nap is one of them. Those and more advice in this week’s roundup of workplace news and trends curated by the editors of Convene.
People on the Move
Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where.
Keeping Smartphones in Their Place
Ambivalence over the impact of social media is spurring interest in analog experiences.
Designing ‘A Beautiful Nesting Ground’ for Deeper Relationships
How software company Avalara turned networking on its head and delivered business and bonding at its FUSE partner conference.
Flying High: Polling Takes a Surprising Form at CEMA Summit
Corporate event marketers embraced an analog way of voting on topics — raising or lowering a balloon at their table — during a session by event experience company Projectory.
A More Minimalist Approach to Business Strategy
What can the Convening EMEA 2024 audience expect to learn from Abir Haddoud’s session, “The Power of Focus: Why Less is More in Strategy”? How to cut through the noise to focus on what really matters — in business and in life.
5 Top Universal Challenges for Event Organizers
Global DMC Partners’ most recent survey shines a light on everything from rising costs and managing budgets to AI adoption in the business events industry.
Do Stricter Return-to-Office Mandates Make Sense?
Amazon’s recent announcement that employees will be required to work from the office five days a week in 2025 sparked renewed — and heated — debate about the hybrid workplace. What has changed about hybrid work policies over the past year for event organizers?
How Los Cabos Is Raising the Standard of Event Hosting
Rife with natural beauty and top-tier facilities, easy-to-reach Los Cabos makes meetings a dream experience for attendees and organizers alike.
Taking Advantage of Geography With an Unusual Off-Site
At ASAE’s 2024 Annual Meeting & Exposition, Destination Canada broke the brand activation mold by whisking attendees away for an afternoon on Ontario’s Pelee Island. Here’s how they pulled it off.
News for Professionals: Career Advice and Ideas
The “adult gap year” phenomenon — a yearlong break from a job to pursue other interests — is gaining traction in the work world. That and other trends in this week’s roundup of workplace news and advice curated by the editors of Convene.
Shared Meals and Interesting Topics — 2 Ways to Better Networking
More ideas about how to create more intentional networking at events came our way than we were able to fit in our upcoming September/October print issue on that topic. So we’ll be sharing contributions from event planners in our newsletters. Here’s the first.