Strategic Meetings Management: Advancing from Event Manager to Strategic Director

Description

1 Clock Hour | Domain F: Stakeholder Management 

In order to progress your career and ensure that you continue to be a valued member within your organization -- especially if there is a structured meeting management program in place -- you need to do more than successfully manage a meetings department. You must challenge yourself, expand your skills and evolve from management to strategic director, and that's not always as instinctive and effortless as it seems. Learn how to develop a road map to purposefully achieving the next level in your career path. Through individual and group exercises, examine core competencies required to demonstrate that you are qualified to move up to the role of meeting director.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand SMM as a framework, including the benefits, drivers and initiatives
• Compare these to your current skill set and pinpoint gaps and areas of development for yourself
• Create and execuite a plan to upgrade your capabilities and advance your career

Speaker(s):

• Mariela McIlwraith, CMP, CMM, MBA, Director of Industry Advancement, Events Industry Council