MPI is the meeting and event industry’s home for education, enabling meeting professionals around the world in their quest to host meetings that matter for communities, organizations, businesses, NGOs and governments. The MPI Academy has curated packaged content to help you stay up-to-date on what industry experts are saying related to health and wellness.
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30-Minute Monday | All Inclusive Portfolio - Deep Dive
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Identification: 11222021
0.5 Clock Hour | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
Join us for the fifth installment of 30-Minute Monday where a subject matter expert and moderator sit down for a hard-hitting, jam-packed 30-minute conversation about the topics you need to know to start your week. No slides, no long lectures, just facts, tips, and tricks to help you take your events and business to the next level. Can’t make it? 30-Minute Monday will be available on-demand the next business day. Check out our new 30-Minute Monday tab under “Digital Education” at academy.mpi.org to access.
Escape to paradise for the 30-Minute Monday on November 22, 2021, at 12:00 PM CST.
Hilton’s rapidly expanding all-inclusive portfolio offers upgraded amenities in some of the world’s most sought-after destinations, where attendees can enjoy picturesque beaches and pools, modern accommodations, elevated dining and live entertainment. Hilton's all-inclusive resorts feature a wide range of exceptional meeting and events facilities, coupled with convenient amenities that allow for a seamless on-property experience. Join Hilton executives Colette Baruth, Vice President & Commercial Director for All-Inclusive Resorts and Gerilyn Horan, Vice President of Group Sales & Strategic Accounts for an informative session and learn how a Hilton All-Inclusive resort is the perfect venue for your next meeting or event.
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Communicate in Any Language - Everything you say, translated on the fly.
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The Science of Meetings & Events Series: Nature of Space - An Ecosystem for Event Success
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Identification: 071721
1 Clock Hour | Domain G: Meeting and Event Design
People are craving being human. Deliver live event experiences that quench the thirst of needing face-to-face connections and community with others by designing an ecosystem that fosters harmony, growth, and innovation inspired by nature. By bringing people together, live events directly foster humanity, and the essence of humanity is inextricably linked to our natural world. Using the recently released “Nature of Space” whitepaper by IMEX we will use a neuroscience lens to explore the lessons from nature to help build an event that helps our attendees have a healthier, happier, and more meaningful event experience.
Learner Outcomes:
1. Discover how adapting nature’s best lessons can help create a successful event.
2. Explore ways to leverage lighting and environmental features to inspire innovation.
3. Discuss how patterns and shapes found in nature can accelerate and strengthen connections and community.
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Oxygen, Please! Self-Care Strategies to Slay Workplace Burnout
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Identification: 07222020
1 Clock Hour | Domain E: Human Resources
Self-care is as important as oxygen. While companies are working hard to stay competitive in today’s fast-paced, overstressed world, and authenticity is valued in the workplace - many employees are burned out, stressed out, and maxed-out. This results in low employee morale, and decreased performance - the opposite of what a thriving, successful business wants. How can one be true and authentic when they are exhausted? We strive to meet workplace goals and demands, at the expense of our own personal wellness. What if we spin this practice on its head?
My own physical and mental well-being first. Place the oxygen mask on myself first.
Why? So I am operating at my fullest potential, and benefitting the bottom line.
By incorporating simple, self-care strategies into our lives, we can slay workplace burnout and rejuvenate our sense of purpose. The simple truth is this: caring for yourself will allow you to show up as your best self at work and at home.
This fast-paced, webinar attendees will be empowered to reignite their self-care practices, allowing them to show up as their authentic selves and contribute to positive workplace culture.
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Coronavirus Dialouge Series: ELITE Emotional Intelligence
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Identification: 05152020
1 Clock Hour | Domain E: Human Resources
When EI goes up, productivity and performance follow. In this workshop, Dr. Julie Lopez discusses the PACT Method for determining invisible codes in our brain and how the application of this method applies in the workplace. In this way, a rarely talked about dimension of EI is illuminated for impactful performance results. Learn about Dr. Julie’s proven 4-part methodology to identifying invisible roadblocks and how you can make them visible for removal.
When every member on a team is feeling and doing their best, the team as a whole performs at their highest level. When any member of your team falls on hard times, the whole system is affected. As a leader, it's your job to support your team emotionally and psychologically so that your people can come back stronger and more engaged than ever.
Emotionally intelligent leaders spend less time in pointless conflict and more time building teams. Executives, managers, and companies have been investing in boosting the emotional intelligence of their teams for decades, and this is because a team that can empathize, communicate, and self-regulate emotions is one that can reach elite levels of performance.
The fact is when EI goes up, so does productivity and performance, and what company doesn't want the dream team increasing engagement and achieving higher levels of excellence?
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Coronavirus Dialogue Series: Avoiding Burnout and Managing Stress
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Identification: 05132020
1 Clock Hour | Domain E: Human Resources
Stress is commonplace for those who work in the meetings industry. “Event Planner” continues to land in the top five - on the top 10 list - of the most stressful careers year after year. And, in 2019 the World Health Organization formally recognized that burnout is caused by “chronic workplace stress that is not properly managed”. While those in this industry are ‘used’ to some level of stress, it seems that it is not going to lighten up anytime soon – for anyone.
While the WHO has defined and recognized burnout and its cause, they offer no direction on prevention or recovery. Hitting burnout can be painful, lifechanging and expensive and every human effort should be made to avoid it. There are ways to avoid it when adjustments are made early enough. Today, hear from a 25+ year meetings executive who left the industry after her own experience with burnout. Her story, what to look for, what it looks like if you do nothing about it, and immediate (and simple!) ways you can protect yourself from falling into the burnout rut.
Learner Outcomes:
1. Participants will gain a clear understanding of what causes burnout, what it looks like and its cost.
2. Participants will learn the signs to look for in themselves that may indicate they are heading towards burnout and the potential impact on their body and lives.
3. Participants will learn the first line of defense simple adjustments to make in their lives to ensure their stress remains manageable and doesn’t lead to burnout.
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Learn How to De-Stress Naturally
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Identification: 3202020
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Learn how practices such as bringing awareness to the present moment, working with your breath and doing simple movements at your desk can move you out of stress and into a mind like water-- also commonly known as "the zone." Mindfulness practices can help you create the space to be efficient without the stress. And the tools of yoga, such as a quick breathing exercise, can help you shift your mood in just 5 minutes from chaotic to calm. Join Jeska as she shares scientifically-proven methods to create a mind that works FOR you instead of against you so you can optimize your performance at work and feel great, too!
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1. Learn to differentiate between good stress & bad stress and how to transform bad stress into good stress
throughout your daily life
2. Improve your focus and concentration naturally
3. Discover three practices for self-mastery that will automatically change your state in under 5 minutes
Speaker(s):Identification: selfcare12032019
1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning
If you care about self-care but don’t have time for it because you’re too busy taking care of your conferences and attendees, this session is for you!
Many meeting professionals are often too busy taking care of business and give themselves a pass when it comes to healthy habits. Productivity and overall health take a hit, and the effects become especially pronounced as we age.
This talk underscores the importance of self-care: putting health first to boost vitality, peak performance and full engagement at work. A meeting professional who is physically, emotionally and mentally fit is better able to take care of meetings and create a healthy conference culture that engages and energizes attendees.
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Become a Conference Wellness Superstar
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Identification: wellness09102019
1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Wellness is becoming increasingly popular in the meetings industry. Conferences can take their toll on participants through lots of sitting, eating, and information to take in. Wellness activities provide a needed mental and physical break. Discover how wellness provides a healthy and memorable conference experience and attracts sponsorship revenue.
The webinar will: 1) overview the current health status of meetings; 2) provide a rationale for conference wellness and tips for “how to” do and not do conference wellness; and 3) showcase quick & easy ways to incorporate wellness activities into the conference schedule, break-free from the status quo, and keep participants engaged and energized. Armed with innovative ideas, you’ll be inspired to “take a stand” against chronic sitting and create a culture of wellness that supports high energy learning and healthy choices at your events.
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The Art of Badassery
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Identification: aob11132019
1 Clock Hour | Domain F: Stakeholder Management
Tight deadlines, long work weeks, and balancing your actual life can be stressful; never mind dealing with those unexpected curveballs that life throws your way.
In the Art of Badassery, Jennifer demonstrates that life does not have to be defined by tragic moments, but instead, by the courage to keep moving forward. With her Principles of Badassery, attendees will walk away with easy-to-implement tools to preserve their power by using energetic self-defense.
Move through the ranks of badassery to feel more strong, safe and powerful from the streets to the boardroom.
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