Category: Event Management
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Weekend Poll: Gearing Up for the 2018 Holidays
It’s time again: each December, I touch base with readers on your approach to the holidays, and your plans for the festive days ahead. Take a couple of minutes to…
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Weekend Poll: 2018 Office, Network Holiday Parties
Welcome to December! Ironically, even as I tapped these words out on my keyboard, a hummingbird just whirled around one of the hanging baskets outside our dining room window. If…
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Weekend Poll Results: December 2017 Corporate Parties
With thanks to all my readers who are participating in my Weekend Polls feature, here are your responses to my question: How do you manage event planning for the 2017 holiday season? More…
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Weekend Poll: Tell Me About Your Office’s Holiday 2017 Parties
It’s mid-October and, here in Canada, we celebrated our Thanksgiving a couple of weekends ago. While our neighbours south of the 49th Parallel will celebrate Thanksgiving on November 23rd, retailers have…
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Weekend Poll: Do You Celebrate Halloween?
Fall is is in the air, and Halloween is close at hand. While long prominent in North America, it seems that Halloween gains even more momentum each year as an…
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Weekend Poll: Catering for Internal Meetings
Will you help a counterpart and her firm in Exeter, England? They’re exploring other organisations’ practices and criteria when it comes to providing catering services for internal meetings. Reading our peer’s recent LinkedIn…
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Weekend Poll: Burning the Midnight Oil
Happy Friday, everyone. Or, at least it’s already Friday in some readers’ time zones, and it will be in my time zone by the time I finish writing and posting…
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Weekend Poll: Do You Supervise Other Staff?
While admin. professionals typically support other individuals’ successes, our roles can also include supervision of other staff – and that’s what we’re exploring with this weekend’s poll. Do you have…
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Weekend Poll Results: December 2016 Corporate Parties
With thanks to all my readers who are participating in my Weekend Polls feature, here are your responses to my question: How do you manage event planning for the holidays? THE RESULTS More…
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Weekend Poll: Holiday 2016 Event Planning
It’s the first week of September, and many readers are focused on getting back into routines with returns to work and school from summer holidays. If you’re having a particularly…
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Weekend Poll: Event Planning to Celebrate the Holidays
As mentioned earlier this week, the first Christmas-related invitation of the year came across my screen earlier this week. After an initial popping of the eyes, I turned to my…
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It’s Begun; the First Christmas 2015 Event Invitation, Oh, My!
Oh, my. I don’t know about you, but receiving an invitation yesterday to a Christmas-themed event threw me for a loop … for a few seconds, until I realised this was…
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Event Planning: Door Prize Solutions
Hands up, everyone who’s been to an event where, once the speeches and celebrations are complete, you’re invited to turn over your chair to look for a colourful dot or…
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Two Truths, And A Lie
Hello, it’s Shelagh again. You know, that person who has been fairly consistent in offering thoughts about all things EA- and PA-related … until, that is, the past few weeks…
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Event Planning: Creative Centrepieces
When it comes to event planning, do you like to turn centrepiece arrangements over to your florist, or have you found there are some occasions when a restrained budget, coupled…