How Meeting Planners Can Change the World

1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning

Meetings will never go away. As businesses continue to tighten the bottom line, some meetings will get canceled, consolidated, reduced in size or executed virtually, but people will always need to meet face to face. The way meetins are conducted, however, is rapidly changing. And meeting planners need to stay on top of technological advances, corporate initiatives, budget restrictions, attendee expectations, meeting innovations and organizational goals or risk becoming obsolete. Don't just adapt; innovate. As a meeting professional, you have more power than you think. In this session, you'll learn three small ways you can make a big difference.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the importance of proving your worth and the value of your work
• Discover simple ways to plan more sustainable meetings
• Understand the connection between meeting design and audience behavior