In the healthcare sector, meetings play a vital role in exchanging ideas, strategies, and knowledge-sharing among healthcare professionals and team members. With ever-increasing expectations from participants, it’s critical for meetings to be customized to meet their specific requirements. In this blog, we’ll talk about how mindfulness can address these needs and share some tips to put control in the hands of meeting planners. Mindfulness is the practice of being completely present and engaged in the moment with an open, positive mindset. Mindfulness can improve a conference participant's experience and information retention by boosting focus and decreasing tension and anxiety, whilst establishing stronger connections with fellow attendees and presenters. 

Water is one of Earth’s most precious natural resources, and managing how we use it better is good for both people and the planet. 

 

Despite being used at events in many ways, from F&B to cleaning and sanitation, water usage can often be overlooked when it comes to event sustainability efforts. With the focus heavily on reducing the carbon impact of events (and quite rightly so), this is an area that deserves more attention.

 

But 2.2 billion people around the world still lack safely managed drinking water, according to the United Nations, which estimates that the demand for freshwater will exceed supply by 40% by 2030. Access to safe and clean drinking water is a basic human right, and event planners have an opportunity and a responsibility to manage it more mindfully. 

 

That might include checking your venue’s water conversation policies, rethinking menu choices to options that use less water when they are produced, and not prefilling water glasses or using ice buckets. 

 

Even small changes can make a big impact, and here are some of our top tips to get you started…

Events are all about people and working with the right people to deliver your meetings and events is vital to ensuring their success. That's why we are passionate about developing our people to become experts in the MICE sector. We invest in making sure our global meeting and events team gets the right training and experience to enable them to deliver truly memorable moments for our clients and their attendees.

 

To showcase the breadth of their expertise, we shine the spotlight on Daisy, Muriel and Priyanka, three of our M&E specialists across the globe, who share their passion for providing the highest levels of service, exceeding client's expectations, and staying on top of the latest trends.