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Quarterly IMEX survey results indicate meetings will increase throughout 2012

  • conventions and expositions
  • May 21, 2012
IMEX, the worldwide exhibition for incentive travel, meetings and events, has released the results of a new poll. In the survey, posted...
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Congress proposes cutting conference spending. NSA objects.

  • GSA scandal fallout
  • May 4, 2012
In a May 2nd letter to all members of the National Speakers Association (NSA), NSA CEO Stacy Tetschner raises the alarm that a bill to cut...
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Are your meetings the ones no one wants to attend?

Another meeting? Are you KIDDING? We just LEFT one meeting and now we’re going to another? Do people dread your meetings? Meetings certainly...
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Meetings: Why We Despise Them

Meetings are often considered the “black hole” of the workplace. More often than not people leave them with a shrug of the shoulders...
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Diversity Knowledge: Understanding the Pain of Exclusion

Remember ball tossing in the school playground? Were you ever the one who stood there like a dork as the ball was passed from hand to hand, yet...
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Cub Scout program: Same principles revamped for today's family

With considerable media attention focused on the 100th Anniversary of Boy Scouts of America (BSA), some very important changes have been taking...
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Workplace Conflict: Can You Trust a Denier?

The War at Homeimbd.comIn the 1996 film “The War at Home” starring Kathy Bates, Emilio Estevez, and Martin Sheen, there is an intense...
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Workplace Conflict Transformed

Making Lemonade from Lemonsrecipes.comAvoiders mostly come from families where pain or trauma was not discussed and the emotional connection...
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Workplace Conflict and the "Gotta Go Guy/Gal"

AvoidingavoidingYou know anyone who is absolutely, positively aware of problems and conflicts, yet won't say a word, or do anything about it? I...
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Workplace Relationships: Enter the Rescuer!!

Superman Saving Lois LaneimageonlineThere is a scene from an old superman movie where superman catches Lois Lane falling from a skyscraper. He...
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