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Sharing the Latest Trends: What's Shaping Events in 2024 and Beyond
You might be asking yourself, what will be shaking up the industry this year? How will the industry evolve? We have some predictions! Join Will Curran from Bizzabo as he dives into event trends on the horizon and how the events industry is evolving. From increasing networking engagement to leveraging technology in new ways, you will leave this session with the trends and tools to take back to your team and implement right away.
Learning Objectives:
• Think strategically when it comes to creating your events
• Walk away with trends to implement into your events right away
• Learn to think about how to apply existing trends in the world to events
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Your Brand In Action - Amplifying Your Influence on LinkedIn
In today’s world, it’s imperative for event and hospitality professionals to establish and cultivate their own personal brands. It’s time to come out of the shadows, into the spotlight and create a bigger impact in your career, and we’re going to use the powerful platform, LinkedIn, to get you there! Join Leanne Calderwood, CMP, as she dives into strategies to amplify your influence on LinkedIn.
Learning Objectives:
• Determine why we should all build our own personal brands, separate from our organization's branding and how you can integrate your company’s brand and values into your own personal branding messaging
• Discover 5 Ways you can grow your brand, without social media
• Dive into the 3 activities on LinkedIn that when used together will help you amplify your brand, and increase your leads and opportunities.
• Understand 3 LinkedIn Profile accelerators that will help set you apart from the competition
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Spreadsheet Heaven...How to Use Excel Most Effectively.
Excel can perform so many functions for the event professionals. From handling budgets, registration to calculating sleeping room rates & determining registration fees, you’ll be able to leverage this powerful tool in many ways. This session is your opportunity to explore all of the functionality that Excel has to offer and take home with you tools to save you and your organization time and money.
By attending this session and you will work with and receive an Excel shortcut cheat sheet, as well as being able to receive all of the sample worksheets utilized during the class.
After participating in this session, the attendee will be able to:
-Identify and use over 15 essential Excel functions & tools
-Learn how to build workbooks with 3D references
-Understand and use advanced tools such as Pivot Tables and working with multiple worksheets
A working knowledge of Excel is strongly recommended to attend this course.
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Critical Excel Tools for the Meetings Professional
Excel can perform so many functions for the meeting industry professional, from handling budgets, managing registration and client data and so much more. This webinar is your opportunity to explore the rich functionality that Excel has to offer and start working right away with tools to save you and your organization time and money.
After participating in this webinar, the attendee will be able to:
- Identify and use over 15 advanced Excel tools to assist with registration, housing, speaker management and other event functions
- Customize graphs and other conditional formatting features for support in marketing your facility or event
- Identify and use advanced tools such as Pivot Tables and working with multiple worksheets through using 3D formulas
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Microsoft Outlook for the Meetings Professional: It's Not the Same Old, Same Old
If you use Outlook, chances are you’ve used it for many years. As with any software program, you have become accustomed to using it the same way, day in and day out. Being more efficient when it comes to creating an effective file folder structure, processing email, or managing projects with the Task feature, will allow you to spend more time making an impact on your meetings and events. If you want to learn how to navigate Outlook in a fresh, new way, this webinar is for you.
You’ll learn:
- Why and how to customize your Inbox
- Which two filters to populate when using the Task feature
- How to free up space but still remember where things are kept
- Where to create a placeholder for your favorite options in the Outlook Ribbon
- How to maximize the search tool
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Organized Audrey: Keeping Your Emails Organized
Organized Audrey answers FICP member submitted questions about taking control of your email inbox.
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60 Apps in 60 Minutes
You thought you have all the apps that you need? Perhaps, but as more and more mobile apps are developed, meeting industry professionals are finding new ways of saving time and increasing their productivity. Whether you’re looking for tools to help manage your conference and event work, connect and communicate with your team, supercharge your social posts, or looking for that needle in a haystack that will save you endless time, this webinar is sure to provide you that information.
After participating in this webinar, the attendee will be able to:
- Identify 60 of the most useful meeting industry & business apps available
- Understand mobile solutions impact site inspection, registration and event management
- Use their mobile devices more effectively for meetings & events
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How About Networking?
Did you know it matters which eye to look into while talking to someone to come across as likeable versus authoritative and that there is a formula that can help you have an amazing conversation with just about anyone? Zoom networking has become a part of our new routines and one-on-one video conversations are happening daily, are you maximizing the online time you have with your customers, clients or partners?
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