10 Nov 09 World Meeting Time Planner Tool
We just found an interesting new meeting planning tool – the World Meeting Planner.
Planning an important conference call or videoconference with participants from many different locations around the globe can be difficult, especially when you need to find a time in the day when everyone is in their business hours, or at least close to business hours! This world meeting planner tool allows you to select the date for your meeting and the various locations of the people attending.
Your world meeting time planner results show you the relationship each location has in regards to daytime hours with any needed adjustments for locations observing daylight saving time, so you can quickly target a time that works for everyone who is to be included in the virtual meeting.
For anyone who has had to try to plan a teleconference with participants from many locations around the world, you know how difficult it often is to determine a time that is convenient for all, and doesn't have anyone having to be on the call at 3am. The world meeting planner tool is a great resource for scheduling those calls and conferences.
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24 Aug 09 Let’s Talk in a Few Months
This is one of the ways businesses are putting off spending money. Delaying is not necessarily a bad thing, but it can make your job as a planner a little rough around the edges. Rather then let it completely fray you, here are two approaches to delays and cutbacks companies are currently experiencing.
Contact Them Before the Deadline
If someone says you should talk in a few months about scheduling the meeting, call them in a few weeks and see if anything has changed. Rather than feeling like you’re bothering them, they may appreciate that you were thinking of them. You can even say that on your call: “Okay, let me give you a call in a few weeks and see if that is still your target. It will help me plan better for you.” This way you get permission to make the call and you’re doing something special for them. (more…)
Tags: Assets, Business Course, Cancellation, Contact, Friendship, Grief, Job, Loyalty, Rough Around The Edges, Scheduling, Spending Money, Target, Virtual Meeting
21 Aug 09 Take Advantage of Federal Guidelines for Bailout Companies to Increase Your Value
As a business meeting and event planner, you are constantly searching for ideas to add value to your services. Recently the federal government published guidelines to the businesses receiving bailout dollars. These guidelines can in fact aid you to be a preferred planner.
The boards of directors of corporations getting cruicial relief from the government have to adopt a company-wide policy on any outlays linked to air travel services, entertainment and holiday parties, and conferences and events. This policy is not aimed to include justifiable outlays for sales conferences, human resources development, unexcessive performance incentives and other controls attached to a firm’s ordinary business operations. What does this mean? Here are a couple of the stipulations and ways you can employ them to cause your client’s businesses seem golden even if they are planning incentive travel. (more…)
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