0.2 CSEP Points | ILEA Business Development
1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Change is constant in all industries, which is reflected even to a greater extent in the meeting industry. Knowing how to deal with change effectively and purposefully is a critical skill toward success. Learn the science behind change resistance, and effective strategies for overcoming obstacles and improving change management skills and agility in a fast-paced market.
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0.1 CSEP Points | ILEA Core Curriculum: Technology
0.50 Clock Hours | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Meeting professionals see many challenges as they look to the
future of events, and one of the biggest is how to make better technology decisions in the face of so much choice. Discover a framework to refer to when considering and investing in technology. From virtual reality and telepresence to RFID and near-field communication make sure you making the best technology
decisions based on a system that prepares you for the future and the
technological changes that come with it.
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This Session Graciously Sponsored by Explore Asheville:
0.2 CSEP Points | ILEA Business Development
1 Clock Hour | Domain E: Human Resources
Generally speaking, about 20 percent to 30 percent of hospitality and service industry workers are immigrants. As the Trump Administration moves to reduce immigration, explore the potential impact on the hospitality and service industry with legal experts from employment law firm Campbell Litigation.
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0.2 CSEP Points |ILEA Core Curriculum: Event Planning - Development
1 Clock Hour | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
The success of your meetings relies on the power to motivate your attendees through obstacles, challenges and often outside of their comfort zones to communicate effectively and foster learning and engagement. In the meeting industry, we often refer to motivating our attendees, but how does motivation actually work in our minds? And how do we actually go about it in the most effective manner? Learn the science behind creating engagement and motivation so that you can design experiences in a more strategic and powerful manner.
Discover ways to keep yourself, your clients and your audiences motivated, focused and engaged.
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0.2 CSEP Points |ILEA Core Curriculum: Event Planning - Development
1 Clock Hour | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
Today’s event attendees are looking for meaningful, memorable and enriching experiences more so than ever before, and the stakes are higher! Context for delivering your corporate message will significantly impact how well it resonates and changes behavior, perception of your brand, or the motivation to act. In this session, using Event Canvas methodology and tools, we unpeel the layers of how to identify your stakeholders, how to empathize with them and their needs, and to design programs that appeal. We’ll also look at how to create memorable and meaningful itineraries and agendas so that the event experiences resonate with your attendees and leave them feeling recognized, celebrated and engaged. The results can ultimately translate into higher satisfaction, loyalty, engagement and profitability!
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0.2 CSEP Points | ILEA Business Development
1 Clock Hour | Domain E: Human Resources
Hospitality and service industry workers have a right to a safe workplace. What does this mean? Join legal experts from employment law firm Campbell Litigation and explore key concepts of a safe workplace in the hospitality and service industry, including most common violations and guidance for limiting liability.
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0.2 CSEP Points | ILEA Core Curriculum: Event Planning - Development
1 Clock Hour | Domain D: Financial Management
Meeting demand is up, way up and new hotel room supply is low, especially in the four and five star brands. In 2015, hotel occupancy, average daily rate and RevPar (revenue per available room) was an all-time high. In this high impact workshop, attendees will learn specific methods to utilize a strategic RFP
process and assess their leverage based on multiple hotel revenue management criteria. The ultimate focus is on value based negotiations, cast savings, hotel contract risk reduction / cost containment and improving hotelier communications and partnerships.
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This Session Graciously Sponsored by Experience Scottsdale
0.1 CSEP Points | ILEA Core Curriculum: Creative Services - Development
0.50 Clock Hours | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
This will be a panel consisting of myself and two meeting professionals. We will actively encourage audience participation, soliciting their questions and their answers to our questions:
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0.2 CSEP Points | ILEA Core Curriculum: Creative Services - Development
1 Clock Hour | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
Discover key insights on how to effectively meet your trade show attendee, exhibitor and sponsor goals, based on new learnings from the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR). Understand the motivations behind why business professionals participate in exhibitions and learn what motivates attendees to return year-on-year. Find out why exhibitors exhibit, how they aim to engage with attendees and the most effective ways to do so. Additionally, discover what role digital plays in live events and how you can maximize value and engagement for all participants.
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0.2 CSEP Points | ILEA Business Development
Imagine if you had a secret weapon that helped you beat procrastination and self-doubt. What if you had the confidence and courage to take action and share your ideas with conviction? You'd be unstoppable.
In her globally praised TEDx talk, best-selling author, entrepreneur and social media influencer, Mel Robbins introduced the world to the science-backed secret to changea" The 5 Second Rule. Over 13 million views later, The 5 Second Rule has become an international best-selling book translated into 29 languages, the #1 Audiobook in the world and a life-changing global movement inspiring people to quit procrastinating, become more courageous, accomplish goals, and change for the better.
Mel has used The 5 Second Rule to transform her own life. Since discovering and implementing The 5 Second Rule, Mel has become the most booked female speaker in the world, an award-winning legal analyst for CNN, an internationally acclaimed bestselling author, and the CEO of a media company that inspires more than 20 million people each month.
With riveting videos, case studies, compelling research, and hilarious personal stories, Mel will recount the deeply relatable and remarkable story of The 5 Second Rule and the power of five second decisions. She will demonstrate how this rule has helped people, teams, and businesses around the world change for the better. And, through audience interaction, she'll show you how to use the Rule so you can also achieve your goals.
This is a life-altering speech filled with groundbreaking insights and a tool for action that is critical for selling, leadership development, innovation, and success. Mel will present the secret to HOW we change behavior, HOW to take smart risks, HOW you bring out the best in your team, and HOW to create the results that we covet at work and in life.
You'll walk out of this experience with tools you can bring to back to your team, your family, and your life and you'll leave feeling inspired, empowered, and able to take action.
Sponsored by Marriott International
Mel Robbins is presented by: Gotham Artists
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