Case Studies

Six Planners’ Routes to the Meeting Profession Planners often take a circuitous route to the meeting profession. Here's how six people--including a former ballet dancer, parole officer, accountant, and gemologoist--landed the meeting planning jobs that they were always meant to have.... How Pharma Meeting Planner Lynn Rizdon Rose Through the Ranks Lynn Ridzon's moment came early on in her career. It was the early 1990s and Ridzon was working as a planner in the marketing and communications department... Doing It All: Insurance and Financial Meeting Planners’ Career Stories To the outsider, Karyn Evans appears to have it all under control. A CMP and CMM, the 40-year-old is principal planner of meeting and event services for... Carving Your Career An Association Planner’s Story... Focusing on Financials is This Planner’s Story Pamela Wynne, Manager of Corporate Meeting Planning at Princeton, N.J. based Educational Testing Service, can't remember the last time she actually planned...

Balancing Career and Home Corporate Meeting Planners’ Stories... Build Your Own Brand to Get Ahead Positioning yourself as a strategic planner, speaking at industry events, being featured in the media--these and many other tactics are what it takes to build your own brand and get recognized, both inside and outside your organization.... Diary Of A Job Hunter, Summer, 2004 Summer 2004 I first heard the thunder in the distance last June, when the company's new human resource director called a meeting of our education team... MPI Chairwoman of Change ANGIE PFEIFER, CMM, assistant vice president of corporate meetings travel and incentives for Investors Group Financial Services Inc.... What Do I Do for a Living? I often have a difficult time describing just what I do for a living to my friends and family.... What I Do for a Living With extreme interest, I read Lawrence Sherman's article What Do I Do for a Living? (June 2007), and it was like a revelation....

Managing Different Generations

Financial & Insurance Meetings’ Guide to Motivating Multiple Generations Respect the Boomer, text the Millenial. Our guide to motivating multiple generations... One Management Style Does Not Fit All There's no single way to motivate a 23-year-old who views work as a hobby and a 45-year-old Type A personality who wants everyone in the company to know...

Motivating Meeting Planners Are planners a tougher crew to manage than other employees? You bet. For starters, they need to be offered different incentives than their co-workers....

Education/Certification

The New CME Professional A Certification Program... About the CMP and the CMM Lessons in Meeting Planning... Certified Meeting Professional The foremost certification program in today's meetings, convention, and exhibition industry, the Certified Meeting Professional designation recognizes those who have achieved the industry's highest standard of professionalism. It is bestowed by the Convention Industry Council. ...

Meeting Professionals Want Online Training Certified Meeting Professionals, while mostly satisfied with the value of their professional designation, are looking for improvements to the program,... Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) designation The Convention Industry Council... Certification in Meeting Management, CMM Meeting Professionals International...

Newsmakers

People in the News MeetingsNet's 'Newsmakers' section contains information on the meetings industry's people in the news. Check back regularly to see who has been promoted or hired or honored.

Commentary/Blogs

Promote Yourself! With Barbara Scofidio The first time that I met Pamela Wynne, I was struck by her energy and enthusiasm. I was assigning a story about what it's like to run a meetings department,... Card tricks and concentration MeetingsNet Blog... Career Advice The MeetingsNet blog... Post by Kathy Sierra How well do you manage your staff?...

Interview between Guy Kawasaki and career specialist Penelope Trunk Touring the MeCo Mansion ... Dan Parks, co-moderator of the Meetings Community listserv (aka MeCo) a mansion just for…CNN Money taps meeting/event planning as a top job ... What makes a job “extreme” according to a talk given by the author…Attention CME providers...

Resources/Job Search Strategies Find a Job/Post a Job Meeting Planner Placed 39th On Money Magazine's List of the 50 Best Jobs in America In 2006 DIRECTION 2006 The Meetings Community, a Listserv for Meeting Planning Professionals’ Free Industry Job Board Society of Incentive & Travel Executives’ Job Site Women: You Can Negotiate for What You Want The Professional Convention Management Association’s Career Development

Salary Surveys Financial & Insurance Planner Survey from 2005: Incentive Spend And Salaries Ticked Up ASAE Survey from 2006: Gender Wage Gap Persists MPI/Amex Release Annual Industry Snapshot/Salary Survey from 2006