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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

In fact, if approached with thoughtfulness and preparation, those interactions could lead to the meeting professionals taking a rightful place as strategic advisors. We are basically project managers, but unlike technology projects, you can’t move the deadline and unlike before 2020, you can’t let contracts sit.”. By the Numbers.

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2023 in review—and a book sale!

Conferences that Work

” — Lesly Simmons , Head of Community Innovation, Amazon “Thank you to Adrian Segar for getting us to think, share and collaborate – and personally making me step outside my comfort zone…The real tell as to how special this event was: at the end, we all asked for more time.” The show must go on!

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Managing Meetings Means Managing Stakeholders

MeetingsNet

Jeff Calmus, principal at Jeff Calmus & Associates, brought his experience as both a consultant and former vice president, global event management at MetLife Inc., We have to come in being professional, being prepared in the business.”. They're experts in what they do.” And planners need a similar attitude, he said. “We