The human being is a social being. We are looking for commonality, we are looking for friendship and devotion. It helps us, when we help someone else. We fee...

The human being is a social being. Communication is the basis of any social encounters with other human beings. How to communicate is something we learn earl...

The crisis is here, the meetings and events industry is at a standstill. Cancellations and postponements are happening every day. We have more time, that we ...

The last couple of weeks and days have been treating the meetings and events industry badly. Major and minor events have been cancelled, postponed and re-org...

There is not a single day that goes by without hearing or reading something about the novel corona virus (COVID-19). Although the World Health Organization i...

Last week I had the pleasure and the honor to be invited to give a seminar and speak at an event in front of meeting and event industry professionals in Toky...

A FAM trip is a form of event, which is quite important and very common within the decision-making process for meeting planners and meeting designers. FAM tr...

In our recent blog post we spoke about the “pre and post experience” of participants in general and how to make the experience curve last longer. In this pos...

“Let’s be creative, we have to come up with a good concept for this event….”. This is how a lot of creativity meetings start when focusing on the design of a...

A simple smile can change so much. As a kid it was so easy to smile for the silliest and smallest things. It was the first thing we did when approaching othe...

Motivation is something we all need from time to time. Actually, we constantly need it. But can the motivation be given to you by someone else? This is the i...

I don't even have to ask if you ever experienced that moment, when you ask the participants in the room, or you hear someone asking, “does anyone have a ques...

Event apps have been a part of the meetings and events industry for more than 10 years now. As so many innovations in our industry, they turned out to be the...

Most events I have attended and quite honestly some of the events that we have done, do have a very steep but short experience curve. It usually has the shap...

In the meeting and events industry, we by definition have to work from many places. Basically, all we need is a laptop and a cell phone and we can start. Thi...

I was part of the EventProfsTalk organized by @themiceblogHQ the other day joined by experienced and influential event professionals. The topic was something...

I have been in the meetings and events industry for about 25 years. Ever since I started in this industry, I have attended industry shows like IMEX, ibtm, Th...

Most of us are employed somewhere or part of a team and pushing the limits to prove that we do a good job. Prove.... to whom? To our boss, to our customer, t...

Did you ever work with someone who is completely different from you? Did you ever wonder how they can work like that? Or did you ever think that it would be ...

There are so many words to describe the people that come to an event or meeting. For some there are still “audience”, for others “delegates” or “attendees”. ...