Description
As a professional meeting planner, you have been asked to speak with students in the hospitality management program and provide insights on both your work and opportunities that are available in the field.
Conduct research using your textbook, the University Library, or other sources about professional meeting planners and the types of meetings and venues that they manage.
Prepare a 15- to 20-slide presentation with speaker notes where you discuss the following:
- The role of a professional meeting planner and the benefits of the Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) designation.
- The various management functions and facets of meeting planning, including where meeting planners might work (i.e. types of employers).
- The different types of meetings, conventions, expositions, and events that a meeting planner might manage, including differences between venues.
Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.
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Explanation & Answer
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Meeting Planning and
Management
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Introduction
• Meetings are important for both managerial and communication purposes
• Meeting planning and management is one of the biggest struggles for event
planners.
• Most individuals fail to understand how to schedule meetings.
• It is very important for the meeting planner to understand the agenda of the
meeting before seeing it through.
Importance of meetings
• Properly planned meetings helps in time management
• Conflicts in work places are easier to solve in meetings than with e-mails
• Meetings gives those involved the opportunity to express their feelings
towards agendas
• Frequently held meetings motivates and increases the productivity of
employees.
Who is a professional meeting planner?
• A professional meeting planner is an individual who brings togeth...
