It’s back! MPI Ottawa’s popular January “Webinar Month” is back with a great mix of live and pre-recorded webinars to help you build your CMP credits. Whether you’re in the office or working remotely, stay in, stay warm, sit back and join us for MPI Ottawa Webinar Days. These complimentary Education Sessions are being offered to current members.
Live Webinar: “#metoo Movement & Events”
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm
1 Hour Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
*This webinar has been allotted an hour in CMP time.
We are pleased to have Anne Thornley-Brown, MSW, MBA, President of Executive Oasis International, facilitate an interactive webinar to help meeting professionals understand the impact of the #metoo movement on the meetings and events industry. Aided by the #metoo hashtag to bring awareness to the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment in the workplace, the MeToo movement spread virally through social media in October 2017.
During this 1-hour live webinar, participants will learn how to:
Anne will share examples from other industries including a code of conduct that can be read at the beginning of the events, meetings and conferences and she will discuss how to equip participants with the tools and resources they need to report or seek out assistance if they run into issues at events.
Although this is a complimentary webinar, registration is required in order for you to obtain a reminder and the call-in details required. Please register here: https://events.myconferencesuite.com/Live_Webinar_metoo_Movement_Events/reg/landing
We have selected some pre-recorded webinars available through the MPI Academy to gain knowledge on trending topics in the meetings and events industry and to obtain CMP hours. These can be accessed at any time at your convenience.
The following MPI Academy pre-recorded webinars, have been selected with an eye to strategic planning when working with venues on contracts, cost containment and budgeting, and food and beverage trends.
You’ll need your MPI membership login information to download these webinars at no cost.
Hotel contracts are complicated, but are a must to define responsibilities and make mutual obligations perfectly clear. In the Strategic Meetings Management (SMM) landscape, hotel contract risk mitigation has become an important metric. In this interactive workshop, attendees will discuss a multitude of topics on methods to negotiate contracts that assure added meeting value, cost savings and risk mitigation, including dispute resolution.
Learner Outcomes
Download this MPI on-demand webinar here: https://academy.mpiweb.org/mpi/sessions/1501/view
Hotel contract risk reduction and cost containment have become an important metric in the Strategic Meetings Management (SMM) landscape. In this interactive workshop, we will address industry issues and trends that impact planner / hotelier negotiations, including specific methods to validate and report contract risk mitigation. Additionally, we will review key hotel contract performance clauses and methods to calculate damages. Attendees will also learn the pros and cons of utilizing a hotel contract addendum vs. a custom hotel contract process (ready for signature) and methods to create a cost savings / risk reduction / cost containment report, by meeting.
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Download this MPI on-demand webinar here: https://academy.mpiweb.org/mpi/sessions/1075/view
Food and wellness-based meetings trends are transitory by nature; however, over the past several decades, we have seen an unprecedented increase in health-orientated foods that are driving consumer spend and cross-sector operations. Discover the trends that are shaping conference food and beverage from a comprehensive survey of IACC conference venues, meeting planners and culinary experts around the globe, and how those trends can help you rethink the ways you feed your attendees.
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Download this MPI on-demand webinar here: https://academy.mpiweb.org/mpi/sessions/1305/view
The combination of the great recession and the Strategic Meetings Management (SMM) initiative have increased senior management’s expectations for improved planner productivity, meeting value and ROI. Although SMM delivers an umbrella of measurable benefits, cost savings remains a high priority for corporate and association planning teams. In the meeting budget and cost savings strategies webinar, review specific methods to generate real cost savings, including metrics to define and measure results.
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Download this MPI on-demand webinar here: https://academy.mpiweb.org/mpi/sessions/1081/view