News & Articles - mentoring

  • Bridging the gap: Creating an event with multi-generational appeal

    2016/12/07

    By Kelly Furnish, Event Coordinator, Managing Matters Engaging a multi-generational audience is challenging for even the most experienced of planners. Today, attendees range from Baby Boomers to Gen Xers to Millennials, each with different values, attitudes and expectations of what makes a successful event experience. The need to bridge the gap between generational groups is greater than ever. So, how do we as event planners create an event with multi-generational appeal? Here are some of challenges you may face and…

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  • Millennial success skills: What we should be teaching Gen Y

    2016/10/04

    Shh, don’t tell business leaders: Millennials – individuals who are roughly 19-35 years old, and a generation of young professionals raised on a steady diet of high-tech gadgets, websites and 24/7 wireless and social media communications – are quickly taking over today’s workforce. But the way in which these highly enterprising and engaging individuals will look to communicate, interact and hope to engage with tomorrow’s businesses is very different than the ways in which other generations have chosen to do…

    Career Development, HR Tips, People & Profiles

  • The power of learning in the meeting and event planning industry

    2015/02/23

    By Lynda Hoff From the time we are born we have consistently been exposed to new things — skills, environments, people and situations. There is so much to accomplish we wonder how we will ever manage it all. We go to school, we seek out mentors and experts of the skills we are learning and keep trying to improve. We offer our expertise to others who may be less accomplished. We are constantly learning and educating ourselves to do a…

    Career Development, People & Profiles

  • Four meetings industry experts discuss the finer points of mentoring

    2014/12/12

    Mentoring can mean different things to different people. For some, mentoring happens in an organization when a new employee is mentored by a senior staffer, ensuring the new employee both fits in with the corporate culture and stays on track with their professional development. Mentoring can also happen outside the corporate environment between colleagues on a specific area of expertise. Many times mentoring is a two-way street, not simply a case of a younger person being mentored by someone older.…

    Career Development, People & Profiles

  • Why mentoring is a two-way street

    2014/07/10

    Wikipedia defines mentorship as: …a personal developmental relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person. “Mentoring” is a process that always involves communication and is relationship based, but its precise definition is elusive. One definition of the many that have been proposed, is: Mentoring is a process for the informal transmission of knowledge, social capital, and the psychosocial support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work, career,…

    Career Development, People & Profiles

  • Looking back and looking forward: Seven suggestions for mentoring a novice event planner

    2013/09/26

    As I write this, thousands of kids have headed back to school, from junior kindergarten to PhD candidates. I have a new group of students in my post-graduate program, Festivals, Events & Conference Management at Centennial College. The fall course is Industry Relations. The goal:  give students an insight into the world of professional meeting/event careers, to understand the variety out there, to introduce associations that can help them advance their careers, to ultimately find a job. Do you remember…

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  • Six tips for mentoring aspiring event planners

    2013/01/17

    1. Get involved – Your first step is to be open to mentoring and to let your industry colleagues know that you are. Reach out to a college/university that offers event planning programs and ask if you could help with any of their classes. You may already be a member of a group such as MPI (Meeting Professionals International), which has aspiring event planners looking for mentors to meet and from whom to learn. If a student reaches out to…

    Career Development, People & Profiles

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