The Meeting Planning Process
A Guide to Planning Successful Meetings
by Mary Jo Wiseman, CMP
Available on Amazon in Print, E-Book and Audio
My Story; My Book
As a corporate meeting and event planner, Mary Jo Wiseman, CMP (known to many as MJ), managed the full spectrum of the event planning process, across all levels of management with an emphasis on high profile, executive-level groups including senior management, Board of Directors and key customers. The author’s systematic approach to project management helped her to get and stay focused on the task at hand while handling multiple details, projects and deadlines throughout her career.
Read MJs book The Meeting Planning Process: A Guide to Planning Successful Meetings.
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The essential addition to every meeting planner's toolbox!
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Providing structure and tools to keep you and your team focused on time and task.
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LEARN keen insights and valuable tips to CREATE textbook picture-perfect EXPERIENCES by staying true to the basic elements of the planning process.
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The Meeting Planning Process
The Meeting Planning Process
The Meeting Planning Process: A Guide to Planning Successful Meetings by Certified Meeting Professional, Mary Jo (J0)Wiseman, offers a commonsense approach to managing the meeting planning process based on the knowledge and experience she garnered over her career as a corporate meeting and event coordinator. The author’s systematic approach to project management helped her to get and stay focused on the task at hand while handling multiple details, projects and deadlines throughout her career. Now she is sharing her knowledge with others through her writing.
This Guide offers a practical overview of the entire planning process. Whether you are a novice or veteran planner (EVEN THE MOST EXPERIENCED CAN USE A LITTLE HELP), an administrative or other professional who has been called upon to plan a meeting over and above your normal day-to-day responsibilities, this Guide will help bring ORDER to the planning process; lead you through the proper steps and sequence of tasks involved in planning a meeting; and thus eliminate the PANIC, CHAOS and/or FEAR one might otherwise experience when taking on a project and/or a process they are unfamiliar with -- one where failure is not an option and one that can greatly affect your company's bottom line.
It is intended to lead people through the proper steps and the sequence of tasks involved in planning a meeting. You'll find chapters on such planning elements as:
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Establishing a Design/Planning Team
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Developing an Overall Meeting Action Plan
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Communication Planning
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Budgeting
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Site Selection
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Safety & Security
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Contract Review and Approval
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Audio-Visual/Speaker Support
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Meeting Room Setup
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Food and Beverage .... and more
The Meeting Planning Process: A Guide to Planning Successful Meetings also includes handy templates that can be tailored to your meeting's specific needs including:
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Meeting Timeline (see offer below for free Timeline download)
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Overall Meeting Action Plan
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Request for Proposal (RFP)
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Diagrams and uses of possible room set-ups.
"I refer to it as having the structure and tools to keep you
and your team focused on time and task."
Mary Jo Wiseman, CMP Author
Take a good first step and download my complimentary Meeting Timeline template by clicking on the dark red button below. The template can be easily tailored to your specific meeting needs to keep you and your planning team on task and on time.
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