The Business of Meetings
Outsourcing is a vital component of corporate success; helping businesses operate more efficiently and achieve greater returns for their dollars, while ensuring that all resources—internal and external—operate at peak efficiency. Meeting production and management is a business function that is increasingly outsourced in the nation’s largest corporations. And as more companies make the commitment to bring aboard trained experts, they are finding more ways to maximize the contributions of these industry leaders.
At Rendezvous, The Business of Meetings is our expertise. We are a qualified supplier of professional meeting production and management services to produce and manage successful meetings, to train your internal meetings staff, or to assist specific departments within your organization with producing quality meetings, integrating their objectives into every event. We partner with executive management to build the strategy behind your corporate meetings plan and recommend the best methods to produce meetings that reflect the culture, diversity and mission of your organization.
Train Your Team
Our goal is to help your company accomplish its objectives by producing and managing successful events. But what if you already have an internal team assigned to plan and manage your meetings? We can help there, too. Does this sound familiar?
Problem: You have several meetings scheduled this year and a limited number of internal staff to manage them. Not only that, but your staff has other responsibilities and their expertise is in areas other than meeting management. Managing successful meetings shouldn’t be a responsibility relegated to the least experienced person in the company.
Solution: Effective, successful meetings require skill, expertise and a knowledge of the meetings industry that ensures your meetings are an asset rather than a liability; an investment rather than a frivolous activity. Your bottom line drives every decision you make in your business. Shouldn’t your meetings be held to the same standard?
Whether meeting management is a function of your Marketing Department, your Operations Department, or another internal group, your team could benefit tremendously from expert training and oversight.
As your business partner, Rendezvous is here to help ensure that your meetings yield the expected return on investment—whether you want us to manage the meetings for you, assist your internal meetings team with detailed operations, or train your staff to proficiently plan and execute meetings on their own. Our team of certified meeting experts can train your staff in the finer points of meeting management. Your investment in training your meetings team will yield the result of more detailed planning, more efficient systems, more effective execution and more professional management of all your corporate meetings.
Our training includes instruction in:
- Meeting Plan Development
- Supplier and Vendor Selection
- Venue Selection and Negotiation
- Food and Beverage Planning
- Registration Management
- Program Development
- Systems and Process Development
- Technology Utilization
- Timelines and Team Management
- Meeting Evaluation
- Management Reporting
