20 Aug 09 Motivational Meetings

There may be sometime in your life as a planner that you will get a call to plan a motivational meeting. The CEO of a corporation that has maybe had layoffs or a high employee turnover would like the bring up her workers’ morale for various reasons. You have to put a one-day meeting together.

You already have some team-building exercises that the Big Boss wants to include. You also have meals planned and some other activities, as well as motivation psychologists or speakers peppered throughout the meeting. This is all wonderful, but it still doesn’t pull in the emotional stragglers, the ones who may want to turn in their resignations in the next month or so.

The last blog was about booking entertainment for meetings, and you may have your entertainment for this kind of meeting right under your nose. A company talent show could get many more people involved who would not normally give a hoot in the holler. It will require a basic screening process (auditions) so that you don’t have any nasty surprises, but it would be well worth it when your client calls a few days after the event and says, “I think it’s working. Let’s do another one at the company picnic!”

Not only do you have appreciation, but you have another event coming up in a few months. What’s better than clients who like your work enough to find excuses to hire you again?

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