EVEN THE MOST EXPERIENCED PLANNERS CAN USE A LITTLE HELP! This go-to guide for professional meeting planners, administrative and/or other professionals should give you the structure and tools to keep you and your team focused, on task, and on time. LEARN keen insights and valuable tips to help CREATE the perfect meeting EXPERIENCE. ESTABLISH meeting goals, objectives and key messages. DEFINE target audience. IDENTIFY action items; DEVELOP task lists and time lines. SURROUND yourself with a team of experts to make you and your organization SHINE!
"The Meeting Planning Process: A Guide to Planning Successful Meetings" by Certified Meeting Professional Mary Jo (MJ) Wiseman offers a common sense approach to managing the meeting planning process based on the knowledge and experience she acquired during her career as a corporate meeting and event coordinator. The author's systematic approach to project management helped her to get and stay focused on the task at hand while handling multiple details, projects and deadlines throughout her career and she shares her secrets for success throughout this book. Success comes from experience by learning and doing. Growth comes from facing challenges head on and accepting change. Such has been the case with writing and publishing this book. Since first launch, edits have been made to the copy including but not limited to:
Questions to ask during a site visit relevant to the safety and security of meeting participants and staff when looking at a destination and/or venue; information to share with staff once on-site to create awareness of surroundings; and suggestions for key internal and external experts to include in the development of comprehensive Medical Risk and Crisis Management Plans. A more comprehensive look at the collection, formation and dissemination of the Function Detail element of the PLANNING PROCESS (sometimes referred to as the Daily Meeting Plan). Additional helpful tips within the Communications Plan, Audio-Visual/Speaker Support, and Meeting Room Set sections of book.
The Guide also includes handy templates developed by the author, including: Meeting Time Line. Overall Meeting Action Plan. Request for Proposal (RFP). Descriptions and diagrams of possible room set-ups.