Although travel is limited right now, it doesn’t stop many event planners from choosing their 2021 incentive travel destinations – Afterall, these trips are usually planned a year or more in advance. And while exotic, international destinations generally...
Most posts about the meeting kick off will tell you to cover the 5 Ws, invite the right people, and end with next steps. Fine, as far as it goes. It also describes roughly every meeting ever held, which is why so many kickoffs end with a group of smart people nodding,...
After a decade of running work retreats, one pattern holds: the ones people still quote a year later had fewer activities, not more. One well-facilitated exercise. A lunch that ran twenty minutes long because nobody wanted to stand up. A debrief that tied the exercise...
Every free conference agenda template on the first page of Google is a blank grid. Pretty fonts, empty cells, no opinion. You download the Canva file, stare at it for ten minutes, and realize you still have no idea whether your keynote should run 30 minutes or 60,...
San Diego sells itself. 70-degree Februarys, an airport ten minutes from downtown, a walkable Gaslamp, and a convention center that has hosted everything from Comic-Con to Oracle’s largest field events. If you’re scoping a 2027 program, the destination is...