Controversial Corporate Meeting Planning

October 1, 2011 By Randy Markus Comments

Photo courtesy of Voka on flickr

Get ready; it’s time for an in-office business meeting. Possibly a strategic meeting and that poses some internal questions. Who looks forward to those pesky in-house meetings? Who comes prepared (besides you)? And what the heck are they talking about anyways?

Whenever planning in-office business meetings, the approach and tactic is to ensure that the meeting is productive, informative and that there is lots of take away information and knowledge for all of the participants. By ensuring that you meet these goals, when the meeting is over and the attendees depart, they will understand what just transpired and will recognize exactly what is expected of them and the direction the department and/or company is going.

When meetings end up in the controversial corporate meeting planning pile, it’s never a good thing. Because that means the meeting didn’t achieve the goals it set out to do. Have a look (and a few laughs) at this video as outlined by our friends at Funny or Die.

Strategic Meeting – watch more funny videos

Company Meetings – LOL (plananevent.org)
Meeting Planner – Tee Hee! (plananevent.org)

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About Randy Markus

Randy is a hospitality professional with over 20 years of experience in the meetings and events industry. Utilizing her skills and business acumen as well as her enthusiasm, customer loyalty and penchant for detail, with both national and international groups alike, has helped grow Welcome to the City Inc. into one of Toronto's premier destination management companies. Randy brings formidable skills to the tasks at hand as a problem-solver, a genuine people-person and with years of hospitality experience has helped drive Welcome To The City's latest venture, WTTC.com, to its current level of success, making it the largest independent online resource in North America for the events, meetings and conventions industry.

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