MARY JO WISEMAN, CMP  AUTHOR

Planning and executing meetings and events is no easy task and requires a PLAN and a PROCESS and a TEAM of experts to make it happen and for it to be deemed ...

A meeting planner by MY definition is the go-to person within an organization – be it corporate, association or otherwise – charged with the responsibility o...

One of the most profound experience I had as a meeting planner was on 9/11/2001. While on route to San Antonio, TX to advance company-sponsored events and c...

A Crisis Management Plan (sometimes referred to as an Emergency Preparedness Plan) is a document that identifies and assesses potential risks, defines the pr...

A meeting agenda is a list of actionable items requiring attention, discussion, approval, dismissal or delay in the order in which said items are to be addre...

Do you have trouble keeping your committee or department meetings on track? I came across this article that just might provide the solutions you're looking ...

The planning and executing of a meeting can be a very daunting task (to say the least) for someone who has never planned a meeting before, or for someone wh...

A long-time friend and business acquaintance, Nancy Nachman, founder and chief connecting officer, The Meetings Concierge, recently identified a number of ti...

In a previous blog post, I defined an Overall Plan (or Meeting Action Plan) as the working document that identifies and/or defines the key components or elem...

By my definition an Overall Plan (sometimes referred to by others as an Action Plan) is a working document that identifies and/or defines the key components ...

A Meeting Time Line (sometimes referred to as a “task list”) is a time sensitive document and an integral component of the Meeting Planning Process that iden...

Have you ever been asked to plan a meeting and not known how or where to begin? Did you panic? Or, did you perhaps bury the request in your "to do" list ho...