Strategic Meetings Management: Advancing from Event Planner to Manager

Description

1 Clock Hour | Domain F: Stakeholder Management 

As organizations develop Strategic Meetings Management programs (SMMPs), there are new opportunities for planners who want to advance their careers. If you have established yourself as a top-ranked planner for managing individual meetings and events and would like to move to the next level within the organization, this session is for you. In order to be considered for an operations manager position, you will need to demonstrate your abilities and potential to meet the requirements of this new role.

Learning Objectives:

• Know and understand the necessary competencies for an operations manager
• Compare those to your current skill set and pinpoint gaps and areas of development
• Create and execute a plan to upgrade your capabilities.

Speaker(s):

• Jessie States, CMP, CMM, Vice President, MPI Academy, Meeting Professionals International