Averting Disaster with Contingency Planning

A Successful Plan

Storm Warnings

Tips for Contingency Planning

Power Struggle

Is Your Meeting Destination Safe?

At meetings, the unimaginable—illness, death, fire, hurricanes, terrorist strikes—can throw an event into chaos, and those ever-present “paper cuts” (lost shipments, speaker cancelations, late break set-ups) constantly creep into the best-laid plans. Planners and their venue and vendor partners are unprepared for simple contingencies or greater emergencies.

Join Meetings Focus and Joan Eisenstodt, a premier meetings industry trainer and consultant, for this free one-hour webinar, and learn how you can protect your attendees, the organization you plan for, and yourself.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN TO:

• Think more critically about meeting and event contingency planning
• Weigh risk factors when planning meetings and selecting sites
• Prepare to (better) partner with others to provide necessary resources to manage contingencies

Earn CEUs: Each webinar part is worth 1 clock hour of continuing education toward the initial CMP application and recertification through the Convention Industry Council.

Post-recession, clearly there are increased expectations by senior management for improved planner productivity, cost savings and ROI. Add to the equation the introduction of Strategic Meetings Management (SMM) and the shift to a red-hot seller’s market, and corporate and association planning teams now need a strategic plan for success.

Join Meetings Focus and Robyn Mietkiewicz, CMP, CMM, director of Accounts & Global Meeting Management Services at Meeting Sites Resource, for this high-impact webinar in which attendees will learn how to assess their leverage and create a strategic negotiations action plan that will add value to their meeting and bottom line.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN TO:

• How to understand industry issues and trends that impact negotiations
• Pinpoint the variables that influence hotel availability and pricing
• How to review how hotels value your meeting/key hotel revenue management components
• How to examine methods to assess your leverage using a strategic RFP process
• How to implement five steps to value-based negotiations

Earn CEUs: Each webinar part is worth 1 clock hour of continuing education toward the initial CMP application and recertification through the Convention Industry Council.