Travel healthier
Travel healthier by knowing what’s in those airplane snack packs.
Category: Meeting Management
Posh, private settings for VIP meetings
Small, luxurious, boutique hotels offer an ideal setting for a “boutique business meeting,” where attendees feel appreciated and pampered. Is a boutique hotel or inn right for your next off-site meeting?
How to site-inspect from a distance
Are you considering holding your next big business event at a resort? Aim to site-inspect as much as you can before you leave home, advises Amy Pfeiffer, managing sales director for the Walt Disney World Resort.
Have them sitting pretty at meetings
Seating arrangements become the top priority when planning a successful off-site meeting. Here’s how to set up the room—no matter what the meeting’s size—to make sure attendees can see, hear and be heard.
Creating a list of minute-taking ‘standards’
“Write this down in the minutes,” demands a board meeting attendee, implying that his clout alone should be reason enough for you to do what he says, right or wrong. In such a situation, you could use minute-taking standards.
Help preserve America’s history
Help preserve America’s history while you’re vacationing this summer by staying at one of the Historic Hotels of America …
Rebounding from a peer’s verbal ‘blast’
It happens at meetings more often than it should: Co-workers bad-mouth one another’s work in front of the group. Nothing is quite as frustrating as being “cut off at the knees.”
5 tips for smarter business travel
Headed to a conference soon? Plan a better business trip for you or the boss with these five tips.
For road warriors, a traveling office
The next time your frequently traveling boss lands in another city with nowhere to hold a meeting but a hotel lobby or Starbucks, suggest a temporary office. These spots may be geared toward local start-ups, but they’re also a good fit for someone working on the road.
Turn around an unproductive meeting
Turn around an unproductive meeting by saying, in a neutral voice, “I’m sorry, may I interrupt?”