Carter’s seven steps to writing a killer speech By Judy Carter When preparing to speak, most people waste time with this process: 1. Freak out2. Procrastinate3. Find a story about themselves The big problem with this approach is that your fear — and your speech — is all about […]
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By Diane Schwartz Event season is upon us and there’s no better time to catch up on Facebook, respond to old emails and make some Amazon purchases, right? Of course not. But in this age of short attention spans and social media consumption, the term “face to face meeting” is rather quaint and seemingly optional
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By Forbes. Most people will judge you within the first second of meeting you and their opinion will most likely never change. Making a good first impression is incredibly important, because you only get one shot at it. Princeton University psychologist Alex Todorov and co-author Janine Willis, a student researcher who graduated from Princeton in
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By Anne Thornley-Brown for Cvent Like many event planners, I travel a lot. I always leave my mobile phone at home. You see, during my 6-1/2 years working for a cellular phone company, I had a close-up view of how easy it is for customers to run up mobile phone bills and end up in
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Via Cvent.com Event planners frequently need to brainstorm and pull the ideas together quickly. The right tools for generating, assessing and presenting ideas can be helpful when: developing event themes generating ideas for decor designing promotional strategies menu planning problem solving streamlining logistics While most of brainstorming tools aren’t new, more frequent and disciplined use
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By Kathy Janich for PlanYourMeetings. When was the last time you thought about a meeting or event from the attendee’s point of view? You might consider doing so once in a while, just to remind yourself what it’s like for someone coming in cold. Using a recent conference I attended, let’s look at what worked
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Via jeffhurtblog.com Have you ever studied the people who attend conferences? For the past couple of days, I’ve found myself closely observing the attendees of ASAE’s Annual Meeting and Expo 2012 in Dallas. Here’s what I’ve discovered. Read the full article here.
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