Meeting Planning Resources

Seminars: 2:45 pm – 4:00 pm Idea Mapping: A Tool for Turning Thoughts Into Action Room 305 Jamie Nast Author of “Idea Mapping” and Co-founder of NastGroup, Inc. NastGroup, Inc. Plymouth, Michigan If you are buried in information, overwhelmed by complex issues, or simply want to improve your creativity, the path to success may already be hidden in your mind. A simple but profound tool, idea mapping uses visual association to help people more competently plan, organize, communicate, remember, innovate, and learn. This activity-driven session is where you will learn how to create an Idea Map, a whole-brain tool that uses images, lines, key words, and color to improve your organizational ability, creativity, planning, learning, memory, thinking, clarity, and your ability to get your arms around a large volume of detail. Idea Maps reflect how your brain naturally associates information. Among their many applications in business and life, Idea Maps will make planning your next meeting easy, fun, and unforgettable. Communicate with Strength: 19 Words that Undermine Your Effectiveness Room 307 Karen Purves President Innovative Impact Las Vegas, Nevada Are you unintentionally communicating in a way that creates a barrier between you and the people with whom you work? Do you have unresponsive or difficult coworkers? Are people holding up the information you need to do your job? Simply changing some of the words you use will affect your success with others. Your choice of words has the power to enhance relationships, open lines of communication, improve your creditability and convey integrity – or do just the opposite. This dynamic seminar will focus on 19 words you can remove or reduce from you vocabulary to help you increase your influence with business associates, family, friends – and yourself! How many words that could be costing you collaborative, productive relationships do you use? Find out in this not-to-miss session. A Meeting Planners’ Guide to Saving Money Using the Internet Room 301 Lisa Barham President Hotel Resources Southlake, Texas Wouldn’t your job be easier if you could book your next meeting at the perfect location at the right rate and if you knew which Web site to use to save a small fortune on airfare? Whether your meetings and events budget is large or small, saving money is the goal of every good meeting planner and a money-saving tool – the Internet – is just a few clicks away on your PC. This session will help you determine where to start searching for cost-saving opportunities for every aspect of your meetings and events. You will learn to “think” differently when setting-up the search, and you will receive tips and learn tricks to simplify the process of using search engines to get desired information quickly. For example, you will find a wealth of meeting planning checklists, food and beverage cost-saving tips, suggestions for boosting attendance at your meetings, and much more on the Internet. This session will show you how to work efficiently and accurately, using timesaving methods, as you conduct your searches. The Fundamentals of What Meeting Planners Must Know About Meetings and Events Production Room 309 Patty Holland Executive Producer Tiger Productions, Inc. Orlando, Florida This seminar is focused on understanding the basic steps of producing business theater, a meeting or event of any size, a video segment, and/or Web elements for a Web site. You don’t have to be Stephen Spielberg or Brian Glazer to understand the basic lingo of production needs and budgets. Shine in the eyes of your management by becoming a more efficient planner, staying on budget, and saving your organization money by learning the right questions to ask your meeting or event producer. No need to become a logistical or technical expert, this session will help you to be better equipped to work with your event producers and better informed about the process of event production. You also will leave the session armed with a checklist of questions to ask and who to call for answers about your next project. Register online at www.affordablemeetings.com 11 http://www.affordablemeetings.com

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