Most people aren’t equipped to cut through the awkwardness of a social gathering just to make a new contact or two. Others have no choice. Skipping the gathering is not an option, especially with event tracking devices communicating every break out session attendance or bar visit. We get it. Which is why we have come up with a hot list of ice breaking opening lines to use on just about anyone as conversation joiners or starters.
Living through a pandemic makes the head spin. We’re experiencing high levels of fear for ours, and our loved ones’, health and safety, have a financial anxiety over the economy for ourselves/the community/our company/the world, while also being thrown into a situation where we suddenly have to adapt to completely (for most) new working conditions far away from our office with regular routines and co-workers, to a far less ideal workplace in our home.
Have you ever lost your train of thought mid-ride? Instead of barreling full speed ahead into your brilliant proclamation, something else popped up. Suddenly, your enthusiasm was replaced with the panicked urgency of thinking (often out loud) “crap, crap, crap, what was I literally JUST thinking!?!?”
As a mother, wife and business owner, I often find myself at the end of either of these two spectrums. A.) a very controlled tightly run ship which is basically running on autopilot or B.) surrounded by missing socks, forgotten lunches and a surge of business productivity.
“Can you hear me now?” the catch phrase capturing the annoying lack of cell phone coverage is, in current times, replaced with “Can you see me now?” (Followed by “What about now? I can see you…wait where did you go…?”) of the virtual meeting era.
Let’s admit it, with recent events 2021 is already off to a rough start. The pandemic continues, there’s all this craziness surrounding politics, and getting our kid to sit at a computer for several hours is still a very hard task.
Our team recently announced that Book Of Mormon’s star and supermom Kim Exum will speaking on the panel at NetworkBae. It is with great pleasure that we share this exclusive interview with the Broadway actress.
Maintaining a standard base recipe for your secret sauce as event planners can help you stay out of the weeds when it comes to the fun details, and help keep you organized. Creating an ultimate checklist however can improve efficiencies, help you make more money and definitely save you time.
Since writing the last article on this we have learned a few new things. Achieving that professional gloss that we are all craving is a little more complicated than it would initially seem. Have you noticed that even your newscasters have been using better green screens, or are seemingly going into the studio?
Remember when we would talk about streaming a single session or a breakout to an online audience? How tired are you of content only coming at you with no interaction or engagement? Another Webinar? No thanks.
