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Which meeting design books should I buy?

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Here are five meeting design books I especially recommend. Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Intentional Event Design ( ebook or paperback ).

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5 Reasons I’m Grateful for My Clients After 40+ Years of Consulting

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I got my first paid consulting job in 1983, solving IT problems for a lumber yard. I’ve been a consultant ever since. I was your guy if you had a problem with personal computers, flaky local area networks, or database systems. Because my clients allow me to try new things, I become a better consultant.

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40 Outstanding Event Industry Blogs to Follow

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Event professional turned full-time blogger Irina Graf has created an event industry networking and destination focused blog with an international view. Gallus Events are UK-based event consultants with an event management blog. Velvet Chainsaw Consulting. Plan Your Meetings. The MICE Blog. Gallus Events.

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The declining influence of leadership positional power in a network society

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But the growth of the network era , where leaders and workers need to connect outside the workplace in order to stay up to date professionally and to be open to new and innovative ideas, is creating a shift away from traditional hierarchical power models. When consulting, one of my biggest meeting design challenges is to get boss buy-in.

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How to Foster Inclusion At Events

Endless Events

Brandt Krueger and Will Curran sat down with Melissa Lamson from Lamson Consulting to talk about gender balance. To kick things off, Melissa begins by giving us some interesting facts: “With meeting planners, it’s predominantly… there are a lot more women than men in the industry. Gender Balance In Events.

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How to help meeting design clients figure out what they really want and need

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The needs assessment trap Conference design clients who “know what they want” have already decided on their “ why? “, and typically bring me in to consult at the “ how? The five day event is being held by Federation EIL, the worldwide network of The Experiment in International. ” stage.

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The Rise of LinkedIn

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That gave content creators access to potentially much larger audiences — users shared 40 percent more content on the network in Spring 2023 than they did in the same period in 2021, according to LinkedIn. After Slido was acquired in 2021, Holub cofounded Remote People, a consulting and training company for remote teams, based in the U.K.