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AI Session Recap - Global Trends Impacting Meetings and Events
This resource is an AI session recap from the 2024 FICP Annual Conference.
This state-of-the-industry session investigates the impact of global economic and social trends on meetings and events. Discover how these trends affect both meetings professionals and hospitality partners and explore creative strategies for navigating a challenging economy while using data to support tough conversations. This rich discussion offers a vital overview of key hospitality trends and economic forces that every event professional needs to stay ahead.
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AI Session Recap - Building a Future-Proof Succession Plan for Seamless Transitions
This resource is an AI session recap from the 2024 FICP Annual Conference.
Prepare your organization for seamless transitions and future-proof your business with effective succession planning.
In this session, you'll explore strategies for managing leadership and personnel changes, whether they’re due to promotions, retirements or shifts in critical roles. Gain the insights needed to pinpoint and address gaps in your current structure, elevate your successors and effectively manage the smooth transfer of your book of business.
We’ll discuss the approach and its benefits: identifying high-potential team members, training incoming leaders and creating a talent pool ensuring readiness for sudden absences to maintain organizational stability. Leave with six actionable strategies to build a robust succession plan that supports long-term growth and resilience.
FICP Chat
FICP Chats – Why Meetings Matter: How to Illustrate the Value of Your Role and the Events You Support
Join Jennifer Squeglia, CMP, Former Chair of FICP’s Board of Directors, as she brings together our meetings professionals members and hospitality partners to moderate a discussion about the future of meetings. Celebrate Global Meetings Industry Day with us! GMID is an opportunity to showcase the value our industry brings year round to people and communities within our meetings. Let’s get together and chat to discuss why meetings matter and celebrate all your hard work.
Topics include:
• How are you demonstrating the value of your meetings?
• What benchmarks are you using to gauge attendee value and satisfaction?
• How are you presenting information to your stakeholders?
• How would your company define a valuable meeting?
• And so much more!
Webinar
Spreadsheet Heaven...How to Use Excel Most Effectively.
Excel can perform so many functions for the event professionals. From handling budgets, registration to calculating sleeping room rates & determining registration fees, you’ll be able to leverage this powerful tool in many ways. This session is your opportunity to explore all of the functionality that Excel has to offer and take home with you tools to save you and your organization time and money.
By attending this session and you will work with and receive an Excel shortcut cheat sheet, as well as being able to receive all of the sample worksheets utilized during the class.
After participating in this session, the attendee will be able to:
-Identify and use over 15 essential Excel functions & tools
-Learn how to build workbooks with 3D references
-Understand and use advanced tools such as Pivot Tables and working with multiple worksheets
A working knowledge of Excel is strongly recommended to attend this course.
Conference Recording
Forward Focused: How Industry Changes Are Influencing Strategy, Partnerships and Client Expectations
After the pandemic of 1918 came the Roaring 20s. Similarly, we are on the brink of a revolution. Technology developments, the workforce, our collective values, health initiatives and sustainability efforts are all changing the way we plan meetings and events for the financial and insurance industry. What do meetings professionals expect from their partnerships moving forward? How has the hospitality community responded and addressed current challenges and emerging trends? Join an esteemed panel as they discuss top priorities for the next five years to prepare yourself and your teams for doing business in this new era.
Discussion includes:
- Industry changes: New generation of buyers and sellers – what motivates them (e.g., incentives/cash bonus, business travel/leisure travel, inclusivity), technology and automation of services
- Perspective from meetings professional leadership on how their future is different (e.g., 5-year strategy, changing expectations of partners)
- Perspective from the hospitality community (e.g., health, labor shortages, increasing costs, sustainability/carbon footprint)
- Strategic partnerships (e.g., managing and communicating client expectations, becoming an extension of your client teams)
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