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7 Entrepreneurial Secrets for Auditing Your Meetings Portfolio
Approximately 27 million working-age Americans are currently starting or running new businesses. What if you could replicate the secrets of their startup success within your own department or organization?
Association Hunger Games
For association executives, implementing a well-planned strategy can be like entering the Hunger Games arena.
EduTours: Enhance Learning Through Place-Based Education
EduTours lure conference attendees out of the classroom and into the community to not only gain exposure to real-world problem-solving, but also to apply these lessons learned to present-day association challenges in a fun and collaborative way.
CMP Prep Program Goes Virtual
The Certified Meeting Professional Advisory Council takes the successful face-to-face program virtual.
Strategic Meeting Audits: Leveraging Data to Improve ROI
Are you under the impression that all associations are experiencing diminished attendance at their in-person events? Has your organization's meeting function experienced a year-over-year revenue decline - however slight - since the 2007 recession?
CMP Prep Program Gets A Redesign
The Certified Meeting Professional Advisory Council has refocused the CMP preparation course to reflect less memorization.
Michigan Meetings + Events Very Important Pros You Need to Know
Aaron Wolowiec started "teaching" when he was in elementary school...
Prospects Are Endless: MSAE’s 2013 Rising Leaders
Association Impact caught up with the four very dynamic MSAE Rising Leader honorees and captured their perspectives on what it's like to be a young professional working in associations.
The Meetings Report
Shortly after launching my consulting practice in 2011, I realized that both my clients and I could benefit from benchmarking data on meetings industry best practices. However, the data and statistics that currently exist are largely national in scope. For a variety of reasons, the Michigan experience is different than that of associations operating inside the Beltway.
The Meetings Report
The Meetings Report was written by Aaron Wolowiec & Alex Kontras. This report represents the firstever Michigan association meetings industry survey and key recommendations examining the characteristics of senior education/professional development staff, characteristics of association meetings, professional speaker hiring practices, industry speaker preparation and compensation, and meeting evaluation practices.
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