Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The combination of direct payroll grants and tax credits would help to offset the increased costs of goods and human resources. The post AHLA Survey: Supply Chain Disruption Increasing Costs, Impacting Hotel Amenities Indefinitely appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

For example, marketers, human resources professionals and event planners will continue to leverage the advantages of virtual communications, including massive logistical efficiencies, the ability to extend the lifecycle of an event and the use of advanced analytics to maximize ROI. Integrating Emerging Technology.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2021

Dasher, in addition to Nathan Chin, senior product manager for Cvent ; and Phil Saims, vice president of sales for Federal Conference , led the latest Smart Meetings webinar, “Designing Your Event Program for Diversity & Inclusion,” where they tackled the not-always-straightforward topic of DEI. Of meeting planners, 68.3

Human Resources 264

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 2, 2019

Additionally, connect with the human resources team to evaluate training for security guards. The post 4 Steps to Implementing a Balanced Security Plan appeared first on Smart Meetings. While some guards are current or former law enforcement, others may be new to security or may serve as greeters to maintain people flow.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2024

Staff meetings, sales meetings, educational programs, board meetings, national/international events—in-person or virtual or a combination thereof—any gathering of individuals can decide the fate of an organization.” Events are everywhere; and event planners play an integral role in any and every industry.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 27, 2023

Before joining Maritz, she worked as Tourism Vancouver’s meeting and convention sales manager for Chicago and the Midwest. He has also worked as general manager for Sheraton Kona Resort & Spa, hotel manager for Sheraton Waikiki and director of human resources for The Westin Ka’anapali Ocean Resort Villas.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 5, 2024

More Trailblazing SoCal Female Hospitality Executive Stories Smart Meetings reached out to some other storied Southern California hospitality executives to learn lessons from their journeys about how we can welcome the next generation of leaders. The post Southern California Trailblazing Women Speak Out appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 1, 2023

Meet the ‘Smart Women’ of Encore What if the push to restaff event technology roles is actually an opportunity to bring more diverse points of view to the field? Just wait until you meet a few of the women working in technology, sales, operations, production, human resources and leadership at Encore. Inspired yet?

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

He will implement innovative strategies to garner business from meetings, events and leisure clientele while driving growth and greater awareness to the hotel. Louis, Atlanta and More The post Smart Moves at Dreamscape Hospitality, Marriott International and More appeared first on Smart Meetings. Read More: Smart Moves in St.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 29, 2021

To fill the pipeline with the next generation of meeting professionals, Calvert urges focus on opportunities. “We Ross predicts that by August the number of people meeting will look as if Covid never happened. It’s game on when meeting sizes open up in June,” he says. The vaccine wasn’t mandated, but it was incentivized.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 5, 2023

Annual conference center gathering in Durham addressed staffing, sustainability and collaboration A nine-year average drop in the age of the meeting/hospitality professional since the start of the pandemic translates into a loss of nine years of collective knowledge. Knowledge is what helps you handle the unexpected,” he said.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Over his two decades of experience, he has successfully opened properties and restructured human resources teams to be as productive as possible. Read More: Smart Moves in Houston, Chicago and More The post Smart Moves in The Palm Beaches, Los Angeles and More appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Connect are dedicated to providing content that helps you reimagine today’s meetings and look into the future. There are plenty of insights into venues and how to improve meetings, but we want to give a shout-out to Connect for their continued insights into the ever-important topic of event safety. The Meeting Pool.

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Motivation Excellence

JULY 29, 2024

They described how the award winners went above and beyond to meet the needs of both clients and colleagues. More Than Just a Human Resource Perhaps a good way to summarize everything Grossman wrote in his post is to say that American workers want to be treated like they are more than just human resources.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But the Marriott management team understands that to ensure meeting professionals, attendees and leisure travelers have the most positive experience possible, that bell person needs to be immersed in the culture of the 95-year-old company. Meeting planners don’t work 9-5. They have more time to talk on weekends and off hours.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The business model for convention centers underwent the event industry’s most public-facing change during the pandemic, serving their communities as makeshift hospitals, shelters, and vaccination sites — short-term models to meet a health and social crisis. Among them: New York City’s Javits Center; Washington, D.C.’s s Walter E.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 13, 2023

Smart Meetings dropped in on several industry professionals to see what methods and strategies they’ve implemented to adjust to the sudden return of travelers and deliver the service levels expected by attendees. The post How Hotels Scrambled to Staff the Return of Events appeared first on Smart Meetings.

Human Resources 130

Human Resources Hospitality Retail Incentives 130

Best Corporate Events

APRIL 27, 2021

Outline the tasks that each role is required to perform, then list the skills or certifications needed for each duty, suggests the Society for Human Resource Management. Plus, virtual training can bring the entire crew together to meet common goals. Teams and Collaboration. Who Should You Hire?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 8, 2018

However, from a meetings, events and tourism perspective, very few venues were lost and 90 percent of the grapes had already been harvested for the season. In Santa Rosa, two meeting hotels were lost—Hilton Sonoma Wine Country (250 guest rooms and 18,000 sq. of meeting space) and Fountaingrove Inn (124 guest rooms and 10,000 sq.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

To begin today’s discussion, Thuy starts with the central question: do event professionals need to learn human resources core competencies? Let’s find out. Should Event Professionals Learn HR Competencies? Yes or no? “I I think it’s a yes, if…” says Deanna. “If Conclusive Thoughts.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In the association world, the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), made headlines earlier this year when it announced that it would drop the word “equity” from its diversity and inclusion program. On its website, SHRM quoted research that showed that 53 percent of those surveyed linked DEI to business polarization.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 10, 2019

The result is It’s the Manager , and the simplicity of the title matches the message Clifton and Harter want leaders to take away. The problems with productivity and engagement are very fixable,” Clifton recently told the online business journal Thrive Global.

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Motivation Excellence

AUGUST 5, 2024

In a recent company-wide meeting they expressed their commitment to the company, calling the team a second family, and saying the company is stronger than ever as two members of the leadership team step up to run the business. We celebrate 39 years in the incentive industry in September. Our company will remain owned by the Jobes family.

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Human Resources B2B Incentives Culture 100

Motivation Excellence

AUGUST 5, 2024

In a recent company-wide meeting they expressed their commitment to the company, calling the team a second family, and saying the company is stronger than ever as two members of the leadership team step up to run the business. We celebrate 39 years in the incentive industry in September. Our company will remain owned by the Jobes family.

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Human Resources B2B Incentives Culture 100

Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

For each domain, I’ll include examples of meeting processes you can use to satisfy participants’ problem solving wants and needs. Obvious problems (“known knowns”) have known solutions, often called “best practice” For example, how do I: Determine what employee data to store in the human resources system?

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Conference Human Resources Production Meeting 148

Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Her most recent position was director of human resources at Alma Resort, having joined the resort staff in 2019. Sharp held multiple executive positions at Travelport before joining CWT in 2018 as senior vice president and global managing director of meetings and events. Nick Vournakis and Derek Sharp. Glaucia Canil.

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Advertising Human Resources Promotion Hospitality 130

Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The responses event professionals wrote to open-ended questions in our 30th Meetings Market Survey, conducted in late summer, illuminate what they have on their minds in a different way than their answers to multiple-choice questions. I don’t think my organization fully embraces the importance of meetings and events.”

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Human Resources Sustainability Events Airlines 124

Convene by PCMA

MAY 31, 2022

But don’t take our word for it: Those are the findings of “ Mental Health in America: A 2022 Workplace Report ,” from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and SHRM Foundation, conducted in collaboration with Otsuka America Pharmaceutical. How the HR Pros Are Meeting. Jeaneen Andrews-Feldman.

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Human Resources Certification Online Speakers 98

Travel Daily Media

JUNE 11, 2023

The hybrid MICE & Luxury Forum is Sands China’s latest initiative to further its cooperation with tertiary institutions and industry associations to help nurture the growth of local youth, incubate much-needed talent for large-scale meetings and conferences to be hosted in Macao, and add to Macao’s pool of human resources.

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Attendee Human Resources Retail Tourism 90

Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2018

The Las Vegas call for a strike was an indicator, according to Randy Pullen, CEO of hospitality human resources consulting company Wagewatch. The post Hospitality Strike Votes Could Increase with Arrival of High-Tech Hotels, Minimum Wage Increases appeared first on Smart Meetings. Las Vegas Casino Workers Vote to Strike June 1.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 22, 2023

GBTA/Cvent survey respondents, the majority of whom have some meeting responsibilities, cite moderate pay raises in 2023 as well as high job satisfaction—but also an inclination towards finding a similar role in another organization. Canada, and Europe, 61 percent of whom have meetings management as part of their jobs.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 5, 2023

TIS-Tourism Innovation Summit 2023, the international summit on tourism innovation and technology to be held in Seville, Spain, from October 18-20, will feature prominent leaders in Training, Human Resources and Business Leadership.

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Tourism Tourism Human Resources Proposal 90

MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Many meeting planners are already aware of artificial intelligence’s presence in virtual events, where the technology can be used to transcribe speech into text, create summaries for the different topics addressed, and deliver next-step action items. systems and should be available for virtual-meeting use within several months to a few years.

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Meeting Human Resources Automation Online 52

Travel Daily Media

JANUARY 16, 2024

With the lightening development of AI, this is a call to action for hospitality to return to its roots of a service culture as technology frees up human resources and allows our industry to focus on what is important – people. AI is not a shadow cast over hospitality, it’s a bright shining light.”

Human Resources 89

Human Resources Travel Travel Tourism 89

Convene by PCMA

MARCH 3, 2023

Convene ’s editors each have chosen three trends from Wunderman Thompson’s latest report and connected them to meetings and events. Here are three that resonated with Managing Editor Casey Gale. Lisa Ryan Revolutionary Rest Hustle culture is over.

Trends 98

Trends Human Resources Consulting Sustainability 98

Convene by PCMA

JULY 3, 2023

She will be responsible for events hosted in any of the resort’s indoor and outdoor meeting spaces. She has served as director of finance and human resources for a decade and has been instrumental in overseeing numerous vender contracts as well as elevating the bureau’s budgeting, financial reporting, and human resources functions.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Contracts Contracts Consulting 52

Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you had told me forty years ago, a freshly minted high-energy particle physics postdoc, that I’d go on to have four additional careers (owner of a solar manufacturing business, computer science professor, independent IT consultant, and meeting designer/facilitator) I wouldn’t have believed you. Meeting design and facilitation.

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Consulting Manufacturing Meeting Design Publishing 145