01 Jun 11 Break out of the boring and go for unforgettable at your next meeting
At every conference and corporate meeting, attendees are crammed into a hotel ballroom or conference center and basically told what they are expected to do. Whether its motivating them to do something, teaching them to do something different, or setting expectations for what you envision them doing, the message remains the same; you are telling them to change their ways because yours is better. That’s the main point behind David Gurteen’s article We must stop doing things to people. He goes on to say that “we need to approach people with ‘How can we work better together?’.”
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31 Mar 10 Cabin Rentals and Team Building
With warm weather approaching, spring fever is bound to begin to surface in the business world. As soon as time “springs forward,” people begin to get a bit restless. More hours of daylight is an external signal that spring is close. It may be time to get staff together and take them on a well-deserved getaway that combines business with pleasure. There are locations from one coast to the other in the United States that offer cabin rentals that can accommodate almost any size group.
Cabin rentals offer a unique team building experience. Not only does the setting offer the best of natural beauty, withdrawing to a secluded area takes advantage of a restful and naturally intimate atmosphere. It may be easier to attribute team bonding to a tug-of-war contest; however, sharing the same living space has a humanizing effect on co-workers. There’s nothing quite like bed head and making that first cup of coffee as leveling experiences. Cooperation encourages team bonding, and that includes keeping the cabin tidy or making sure your cabin mate is up on time. Shared conversation in front of a fire, inside or outside a cabin, is a bonding experience on a primal level. Cabins are more naturally intimate and conducive to bringing people together than generic hotel rooms.
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29 May 09 Adaptation: Staying on Top as the World Changes Around You
Darwin’s theory of evolution can be summed up to today’s professional in three words: adapt or die. Although the world continue to argue about those theories, they constantly change their methods of transmitting messages. In other words, they have adapted and they continue to communicate.
Such it is with meeting planners. Although meetings will always be necessary, technology will cause changes in how these are planned, executed, and results measured. The planner who stays on top of these changes is the planner who will stay employed. However, those who want to get–and stay–at the top of their employment food chain will need to do better than stay on top. They will need to be inventive.
Meeting planners can do this first of all by realizing that they are part of the marketing team. Even if they are arranging a team-building session for XYZ Corporation’s sales staff–an in-house, exclusive event–the meeting planners are providing services that will eventually show up in the company’s bottom line through increased sales productivity. (more…)
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