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Meeting Management

An Engagement Approach for Strategic Meetings Management Programs

April 2, 2014 by Shimon Avish

Employee engagement is a hot topic in the Meetings industry, but we usually apply it to engaging meeting attendees during the events they attend.  Ask any executive however and the ultimate goal of employee engagement is to improve employees’ contributions to a company in driving business outcomes. This is an opportunity for meeting management programs […]

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New Video – Risk Management and Your Meetings Policy

September 23, 2013 by Shimon Avish

Check out my new videocast on how the risks associated with corporate meetings & events can impact meetings policy.

Filed Under: Corporate Blog Tagged With: Meeting Management, Meeting Program, Meetings Policy, Meetings Risk, Mitigate Risk, regulatory compliance management

6 Ways in Which Travel Management and Meetings Management Differ

September 10, 2013 by Shimon Avish

This is part two of a two part article outlining the tasks that travel and meeting managers are responsible for.  Part one identified the similarities between the roles, and this part identifies the differences.  A link to part one of this article can be found at the bottom of this article.   Differences Between Travel […]

Filed Under: Corporate Blog Tagged With: Board Of Directors, Corporate Travel Management, Meeting Management, Meeting Manager, Meetings Technology, Risk Management, Strategic Meeting, Travel Management, Travel Management Program

Travel Management, Meetings Management. What’s the Difference?

September 3, 2013 by Shimon Avish

Travel Managers Are Being Asked to Manage Meetings More and more often, travel directors are being asked to manage strategic meetings management programs.   But do travel management and meetings management require the same skill sets and subject matter expertise for travel management professionals to take on these added responsibilities?   This is part one […]

Filed Under: Corporate Blog Tagged With: Management Travel, Managing Meetings, Meeting Management, Meeting Manager, Meeting Program, Strategic Meeting, Travel Director, Travel Management

To Mandate or Not: Strategic Meetings Management Programs

August 20, 2013 by Shimon Avish

Is your strategic meetings management program mandated, and by mandated I mean are your meeting owners required to utilize the core components of a strategic meetings management program (1) the meetings policy, (2) processes and (3) procedures, and (4) register their meetings in a central data repository or meetings technology system?  Has enough changed in […]

Filed Under: Corporate Blog Tagged With: Management Program, Mandate, Meeting Management, Meeting Program, Risk, Risk Management, Strategic Meeting, Travel Management Program

3 Must Haves for a Successful Global Strategic Meetings Management Program

August 1, 2013 by Shimon Avish

Part two in a multi-part series on successfully globalizing a strategic meetings management program. Identifying constituencies affected by change, their reasons for resistance to change, and available tools to overcome their resistance to change, are the three ‘must haves’ to facilitate the implementation of a global program. Applied early and often these change management strategies […]

Filed Under: Corporate Blog Tagged With: Change Management, Change Management Process, Change Management Strategy, Effective Change Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Management Program, Meeting Management, Meeting Program, Risk, Risk Management, Risk Management Programs, Stakeholder, Strategic Meeting, The Change Management Process

How Does Strategic Meetings Risk Management Impact Your Meetings Policy?

July 24, 2013 by Shimon Avish

Compliance sections in meetings policies have expanded beyond the use of certain suppliers or approval processes, to include language that mitigates strategic risk.   In order to mitigate the risks associated with meetings & events, a meetings policy must address compliance to policy, suppliers, and processes, as well as compliance to strategic meeting & event […]

Filed Under: Corporate Blog Tagged With: Bribery Act, Cancellation and Attrition, compliance regulations, corporate compliance program, Corporate Meetings, Duty of Care, Employee Safety, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Meeting Management, Meetings And Events, Meetings Risk, Mitigate Risk, regulatory compliance management, SMM, strategic meetings management

How to Successfully Implement a Global Strategic Meetings Management Program

July 16, 2013 by Shimon Avish

Part One of a Multi-Part Series on Globalization If I learned one thing from my most recent four-year foray into designing and building a global strategic meetings management (SMM) program it’s that NOBODY WANTS TO BE TOLD WHAT TO DO BY CENTRAL, whether central is HQ telling the field, or the United States telling another […]

Filed Under: Corporate Blog Tagged With: global implementation, Global Program, Global Strategic, Learned, Lessons, Meeting Management, SMM, strategic meetings management, Successful Implementation

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