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Why Event Planners Need to Prioritize ESG and DEI in 2022
Five event industry panelists share insights on how ESG and DEI values can improve event production and execution.
Why Companies Should Invest in Professional Development
One of the key strategies for attracting new talent, and retaining existing talent, is to invest in professional development.
What’s to Come for the Event Industry in 2022
Howard Givner, ELI founder and CEO, shares insights on what to expect for the event industry this year and in the near future.
How to Evolve Your Career Alongside the Rapidly Changing Events Industry
Continual learning is a lifelong journey. Here is a list of the best resources, certifications, and tools for event and meeting professionals to pursue professional designations in their field.
EXCLUSIVE: An Open Letter from FIRST Agency CEO Maureen Ryan-Fable to Clients on Managing Expectations in the Current Talent Crunch
A honest look at the state of the event industry from an event agency CEO: clients urged to prepare for higher turnover, increased rates, longer onboarding, training investments and more.
‘The Tsunami of Hiring is Upon Us’: Hiring Practices in Today’s Event Environment
Event leaders from third-party meeting and event companies explain their current staffing strategies to fill “the talent crisis” — including new skills and specialties in demand, the role of freelancers, and other steps they’re taking to rebuild their teams.
Learning Goals: Why They Matter for Skill Development and Career Success
For event professionals to learn new skills, and reinforce and refresh existing skills, Defining and setting learning goals is an important part of career success.
Stop Searching for Absolutes. The Future Belongs to Nuance.
As we look to emerge from the pandemic, we’re seeing the inevitable urge to make sense out of the many seismic changes wrought by COVID. ELI Founder and CEO Howard Givner explains why the future of events will not follow a rigid path.
How to Use Digital Credentials to Build Your Career
What is a digital credential, how do they serve as social and professional capital, and what are the best practices for sharing them? Jonathan E. Finkelstein, CEO and founder of Credly, which manages ELI’s digital credentials and whose Credly platform is powering ELI’s new Certified Event Pro Directory explains.
What Are and What Do Digital Credentials Mean for Event and Meeting Pros?
In the event and meeting environment, a digital credential generally serves as proof that a person has taken a professional development course and demonstrated understanding of a set of related skills or competencies.
How to Keep Event and Meeting Skills Sharp
Our goal is to provide our community with the resources and timely insights to stay informed. Check out these resources to keep your skills sharp for the rest of 2020 and into 2021.
14 Inspirational Reads for Event and Meeting Planners
Whether you’re downloading something new on your Kindle to curl up with on your next staycation, or are embracing this time to invest in professional and personal development, here’s a fresh dose of new reads to keep you going strong.
Virtual Event Planning: A Round-Up of 25 Need-to-Know Stats
Covering everything from planning and budgets to promotion and attendee engagement, use this round-up of 25 stats to develop your virtual strategy.
Recession-Proofing Your Job: Do You Know Your VORP?
At some point in the near future, business leaders are going to be having conversations behind closed doors about who stays and who goes. Which category will you be in?
What’s the Difference Between Leadership & Management?
There are definite differences between leading and managing a team. People are often asked to do both in the course of their jobs. What’s the difference?
Embracing and Leveraging Millennial Strengths
Entitled. Self-obsessed. Narcissistic. Distracted. These terms carry a strong negative connotation and without doubt are insulting to any person between the ages of circa 22 – 37.
Be a Networking Superhero
Many of us dread networking and feel queezy at the thought of entering a room and making so-called “small talk” with strangers. What if instead you entered the room thinking about making new connections with like-minded individuals that will help you grow your professional network.
More Than Just Fancy Acronyms!
As an Event Leader, becoming a member of a professional association related to the meetings and events industry is an important step for your career. It allows you to network with fellow industry leaders, and to grow professionally in that network. But just joining and waiting for an email or call isn’t enough…you have to drink the proverbial “kool-aid” to become fully engaged.
The Leadership Teeter Totter – Perception Deception
In today’s world, Leadership is no easy task. As leaders in the events industry we have all had our leadership style analyzed, our strengths and weaknesses identified, and have taken a barrage of courses on how to work with different generations, cultures, and to deal with diversity in the workplace.
The New Year’s Elephant | A Guide For Event Leaders
As Event Leaders we are trained to drill down to the minutia and details that are going to make a difference in the outcome of our events. Treat your resolutions the same way.
The Event Leaders Guide to Holiday Season Survival
Managing your stress and anxiety leading up to and during the holiday season can be challenging. Take a proactive approach to managing your stress and anxiety by using many of your skills you use every day in your role as an event leader:
How To Have An Effective Board Retreat
Retreats are a great way for industry boards to plan the upcoming year, but how do you ensure that they are an effective use of time? Here are two key ingredients!
How to Constantly Push Yourself to Take Your Event Career to the Next Level
The special event world is demanding and stressful, but can also be very rewarding. The glowing smile of an event guest can’t be overstated. It gives you that warm, fuzzy feeling knowing that you’ve put your own personal imprint on that attendee’s experience. Crafting these special memories is a tall order, and constantly pushing the boundaries is difficult.
Alumni Feature: Siri Brudevold
Today, Event Leadership Institute alum, Siri Brudevold, is an Event Planner at Charles Koch Institute, but her journey towards a career in events didn’t begin there. Knowing she needed to fill gaps in her experience, skills and knowledge in order to better succeed in her industry, Siri enrolled in the 10-week Event & Meeting Management Fundamentals Certificate online course at ELI.
Effective Time Management Tips
As event planners, we handle it all—what time the tables are being delivered, what time the entertainment goes on stage, what meals are being served—don’t forget the lady at table 10 who requested a vegetarian meal. She’s already emailed three times about it! Our minds are constantly moving from one thing to the next—no wonder it’s easy to get distracted by shiny things.
9 Can’t-miss Tips to Help You Bolster Your Events Career
Whether you’re just starting out in the event and meetings industry or you’re looking to take your current career to the next level, these tips can help you elevate your career!
Benefits Of Joining An Event Industry Association
VIDEO: Ingrid Nagy, President of the International Live Events Association (ILEA) talks about the importance of industry associations, professional development, & more.
Event Planner vs. Event Designer – What is the Difference?
s the wedding and event industries have grown markedly over the last ten years, what was once an over-arching profession of “event planner” or “wedding planner” has been slowly divided into a number of factions – planner, designer, and stylist – each title referring…
Proving Your Value with Digital Credentials
Last month I moderated a roundtable for heads of in-house event departments, and one of the main issues to arise was the challenge of proving the value of in-house planners. “Executives in my company still don’t know what we do,” said one person. “They think they could just…
The 4 Traits of a Successful Wedding Planner
On TV or in the movies, it seems like a clever kit and a bossy demeanor is all it takes to quit your job as an accountant and become a wedding planner. After planning and designing weddings for nearly 13 years, I can tell you that no major crisis was ever averted with the use of my…
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