Are You Prepared for a Mental Health Crisis at Your Meeting?
Organizations rarely include potential mental health crises in their risk management planning. The time to start is now.
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Great events are built on strategy, innovation, and the right resources. The Skift Meetings Toolkit is your go-to hub for best practices in managing meetings and events.
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One Planner’s Generative AI Journey
Self-taught from TikTok and YouTube videos, Invesco’s Elyse Dawson challenges herself every day to come up with routine tasks that could be simplified using AI.
5 Steps to Event Marketing Success
Marketing should never make people feel marketed to. They should feel like you are providing value and they want to be a part of that.
11 Steps to Planning Sustainable Events and Meetings
Every event is a chance to innovate, inspire, and leave a lighter footprint on our planet. Sustainability isn’t just an afterthought; it’s the foundation of impactful meetings and events.
How To Get Event Vendors To Work With You: 15 Proven Tips
Want an events team comprised of the most brilliant players in the area? So does everyone else. Vendors can make or break your event. Let’s turn things around and build partnerships that actually work for both of you.
Was Your Event Lame? 10 Questions For Brutally Honest Feedback
If your post-event surveys always result in generic responses, the first place to start is with the questions. Why not ask attendees how the event really made them feel?
10 Tips to Keep Your Marketing Emails From Going Into Junk
An estimated 21% of legitimate permission-based emails end up in the spam folder. How can you keep yours from doing the same?
5 Negotiation Mistakes to Avoid
There's no question: Negotiations can be intimidating. Here are 5 beginner negotiating mistakes —and how to avoid them.
Enough Already With All These Extra Fees
A fee for turning on the electricity? Or putting an item in the minibar to keep it cold? When it comes to unexpected and unfair fees, planners say the situation has gone too far.
Time to Chill: Planners’ Post-Meeting Rituals
It’s not always possible to take time after a meeting to get back to equilibrium, but many planners consider it a must. Ten event organizers share their relaxation rituals.