Administrative Professionals (130)
An estimated 80% of all corporate meetings are organized by administrative or non-titled professionals. Whether your title is executive assistant, human resources, marketing or administrative support, we've got you covered with all the tools, skill-building education and peer support you need.
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What’s New in 2022? Research & Trend Highlights for the Year 01.11.2022
Jan 11, 20221 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning
How do you kick off the year with a jump start? By kicking it into high gear learning about the top trends coming up that can help you think strategically about everything from event design, to branding and more.
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30-Minute Monday | Community & Connection in a Global Marketplace
Jan 10, 20220.5 Clock Hours | Domain F: Stakeholder Management
Join us for the 30-Minute Monday series 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 Mondays tab under “Digital Education” at academy.mpi.org to access.
What do communities, connections, and globalization have to do with one another? A heck of a lot! Join us and our first subject matter expert in 2022 as we explore how we can create communities and maintain connections in an increasingly global industry.
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Planning Your Companywide Meetings & Sales Kickoffs in a Hybrid World
Dec 14, 20211 Clock Hour | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
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Internal events aren’t just about the next happy hour or employee training. Marquee events like your sales kickoffs (SKOs) or companywide are rally points that can springboard success for the next year. Last year leaders learned how to create impactful events virtually. As you plan to kick off 2022, you need to embrace the new hybrid world – whether you host a hybrid event, or need to be prepared for in-person, virtual, or hybrid as market conditions change. Join us to learn how the right technology tool can help you plan for an event in any format – virtual, in-person, and hybrid. You’ll learn everything, from best practices for using enterprise-grade video streaming, to audience engagement tools, networking, and feedback surveys to ensure your SKO or companywide is a dynamic and energizing event that will prepare your teams to WIN in 2022.
In this webinar we will discuss:
- Hybrid event challenges and solutions
- How a hybrid event platform can drive absorption of content, real engagement and collaboration at your events
- Keys for capturing powerful digital data and analytics on employee activity
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30-Minute Monday | Intel From On-site
Nov 29, 20210.5 Clock Hours | Domain H: Site Management
Join us for the sixth 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.
In this session, we are joined by event freelancers, Wendy Moyer, Dennis Krieger, and Suzy Scully. Virtual events were a needed pivot, but enough already! Face-to-face events are starting again, but how have things changed at the ground level on-site? In this session, we will discuss how event operations have changed with a panel of freelance event professionals, each of whom has recently worked operated events at multiple properties. Yep, we will talk about everything from room set-ups and vaccinations to buffets and staffing levels.
Specifically, in this 30-Minute Monday, you will...
- Learn how new, property-driven, safety requirements have changed the operating processes on-site so you can adapt your planning accordingly.
- Understand the biggest changes and risks that have the largest effect on the success of your meetings so you can navigate around them.
- Determine the best practices used for sensitive topics such as vaccine requirements, testing, and other on-site medical protocols in order to adjust planning with the least amount of disruption.
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2022 COVID Guide for Meeting Professionals
Nov 3, 20211 Clock Hour | Domain C: Risk Management
COVID-19 has demonstrated the extraordinary resilience of the meeting industry. However, despite the industry's hopes, meeting professionals will still be dealing with COVID-19 in 2022. Therefore, it is critical that meeting professionals be prepared for 2022 with the latest COVID-19 updates. This presentation is designed to do just that by providing a guide on how to navigate the ever-changing landscape of COVID-19 and health security.
Dr. Spero will discuss the latest developments in health security for events, answer any and all COVID-19-related questions, and offer a realistic outlook for 2022.
In this session, you will...
- Gain a solid understanding of the latest, cutting-edge health security strategies and resources available to meeting professionals at their upcoming meetings.
- Walk away with a step-by-step guide to how to develop a customized health security plan that will significantly increase the chances that your meeting will not be interrupted by COVID-19.
- Learn about the health security trends in the meeting industry, receive benchmark data from your most respected peers, and have a better handle on the COVID-19 outlook for 2022 and beyond.
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30-Minute Monday | Your Future-Proof Career
Oct 25, 20210.5 Clock Hour | Domain E: Human Resources
Join us for the second 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.
In this session, we are joined by Carl Winston, Founding Director of the Payne School of Hospitality Management at San Diego State University, and Nancy Snowden and MPI's own manager of Educational Experiences. If you missed MPI's Future Skills Summit, get a fast-hitting recap of the discussion and learn why business leaders, academics, and economists believe that more than half the global workforce needs up- and re-skilling. Consider what next steps you must take to rethink and reimagine the meetings jobs of tomorrow.
Specifically, in this 30-Minute Monday, you will learn about …
- Why experts say the world needs to upskill
- Next-level job skills for your career
- New professional development opportunities and why they matter
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Co-Creating Future Best Practices Between Hospitality Sales Executives and Meeting Professionals
Jun 17, 2021This is not a buyers’ market, this is not a sellers’ market, this is a learner’s market. Hospitality Sales Executives what are the latest negotiating tools are in your arsenal. Meeting Professionals, what are your must-haves, wants, but more importantly, what is most important to you, the meeting professional, when making a sourcing decision?
Site tours have changed and so has revenue management. Hybrid & streaming have added new logistical twists that warrant greater collaborative exchange. Come and share your organic story of evolution as we bring planners and suppliers together to share 2020 experiments and lessons learned that are shaping best practices in 2021 and beyond.
Learner Outcomes
- What is the # 1 Lesson Learned in 2020 relative Live Stream & Hybrid Meeting?
- How 2021 and Beyond On-Site Venue Configurations are Changing RFPs.
- How Meeting Professionals & Suppliers Are Collaborating More Deeply to Overcome Speedbumps and High Hurdles in 2021 & Beyond.
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More Than a Planner - Why Meeting Professionals Need an Entrepreneurial Mindset
Jun 17, 2021For our industry more than almost any other, the past year has demonstrated that we’re all expendable. We’ve attempted for years to prove that “Meetings Mean Business” and that our roles have a strategic place at the table – and yet our profession is still regarded by many as nothing more than fulfilling a bunch of administrative tasks. It's time for us to dictate our own paths and stop relying on others to build our careers. We are more than planners! We are CFOs. We are Risk Analysts. We are Talent Managers. We are Directors of Marketing. We are Customer Relationship Specialists – and so much more. With all the knowledge, skills, and abilities we have, we could run the world. It’s time we start acting like it. In this mindset-shifting case study of how and why she started a new business while working a full-time event planning job, Deanna will lead you through exercises teaching you: Why it is crucial for all to have an entrepreneurial mindset, even if you don’t own a business. What it means to “think like an owner”. How to apply a business owner mindset to your personal career.
Learner Outcomes
1. Reframe your personal value proposition and identify your zone of genius skillset(s) that will create your "purpose path.
2. Develop a public personal brand, even when employed full-time, to open up a funnel of limitless opportunity.
3. Create a strategy to monetize your skillsets outside of your 9-5 job, without any conflict of interest.
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