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Training Magazine Names 2011 Training Top 125
It would seem that every company would realize the value of training and the impact it has on the bottom line but that isn’t so. Eleven years ago Training Magazine decided to rank and recognize top companies who invest in workforce training and development. Each Top 125 company was measured on quantitative (75 percent of [...]
Turn Economy Around: Have a Meeting!
The Economic Significance of Meetings to the U.S. Economy study reveals that the U.S. meetings industry directly supports 1.7 million jobs, $263 billion in spending, a $106 billion contribution to GDP, $60 billion in labor revenue, $14.3 billion in federal tax revenue and $11.3 billion in state and local tax revenue. With the country looking [...]
Business Leaders KNOW Face-to-Face Meetings Matter!
We all know instinctively that face-to-face (F2F) is more powerful than virtual. Here are some compelling stats that fully back this up–and can help us all ‘sell’ the need for in-person meetings to stakeholders. From http://www.mpiweb.org/Portal/Research/MeetingsDeliver: • For every $1 spent on business travel, the return is $12.50. Oxford Econ study—highly credible data • 40% [...]
BELIEVE IT: Face-to-face Means Profits
Want to know the potential return on investment of your business travel and meetings? According to extensive research by Oxford Economics USA, for every dollar spent on business travel, companies benefit an average of $12.50 in increased revenue and $3.80 in new profits. Indeed, such figures present a very compelling case for face-to-face meetings regardless [...]
Meeting Planners Know Value!
My colleague, Scott McKain just returned from addressing a major conference and spoke to the meeting planner about the previous year’s meeting. She said, “We had industry experts, not professional speakers.” He naturally had to follow up with, “Why did you have one for this year’s meeting?” Her great response: “Industry experts are boring. We [...]
You Can’t Lead What You Can’t Assemble
Most of the time, Seth Godin is a pretty smart guy at pointing out fallacies in thinking and performance. He gave away books to show the power of viral marketing and purple cows. He taught us that small is now big. He proclaimed why marketers are liars. But I struggle with his latest blog that [...]
Create Energy And Focus By Gathering Women Together
Forget “fight or flight” as the only duo of responses in the face of stress. For women, there’s a third response: “befriend”. A landmark UCLA study turned five decades of stress research on its head with the revelation that a cascade of brain chemicals gives women a larger behavioral repertoire when confronted with stress. The [...]
Boring Meetings? Make An Effort To Make Them Productive
The June 9, 2008 issue of First For Women magazine printed an article on a topic that is a hot spot for many people in business. The title is “Meeting madness! Yes, it is possible to survive, even thrive, during those mind-numbing, time-sucking office gatherings”. I especially liked the idea that attendees attitude and behavior [...]