Volume 5 • Third Quarter 2009

Planner's Corner

Online Registration: What works for you?

In the world of meeting and event planning, few processes are as tedious or as mission critical as group registration and management. Rush through it and you risk making errors. Store or transfer attendee data in a location or manner that’s not adequately secure and you risk identity theft. But the right solution --or combination of solutions-- can eliminate the headaches typically associated with group registration and management. The question is, what's the best solution for you? Read More

Department Spotlight

Reservations

Group Registrations: The Devil is in the details.

Meeting planners rely on attendees to give complete, accurate and timely registration information. Unfortunately, that doesn't always happen because attendees are often not as reliable as you'd like them to be. What's a planner to do? How do you rope 'em in accurately and on time? Here are some things that will help everyone involved. Read More

Associate Spotlight

Keith Kmieciak

Business Center Associate

Whether greeting Q Center guests at the airport or serving them at the Business Center, Keith's enthusiastic, superhero-like persona can be spotted a mile away. Demonstrating that, for most people, rapport building is an art; but for some, like Keith, it's an extreme sport! Read More

Feature Article
Know Thy Attendees:

Create a Better Meeting Experience
Once you climb over the mountains of detail that surround every meeting (contracts, meeting room diagrams, BEOs, rooming lists, ground transportation, and so on and so on...) a sea of people await you:
the attendees.
A little extra knowledge about the attendees upfront can minimize distractions, improve communication and help you prepare for unexpected situations; creating a better meeting experience overall.
Here are some things
you might want to ask...
Read More 
 

 Mark your calendars!

8th Annual
Chicagoland Learning
Leaders Conference

at

Q Center

Friday, October 30

"We are especially excited that [Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference] is going to be held at Q Center....which is from Accenture's standpoint, the heart and home of our learning. We have up to 1,000 of our people on campus each week which
really puts into practice our core value of one global network in the area of learning...one of the reasons we enjoy being part of the Chicagoland Learning Leaders programs is we get to share with others some of the things that we have been up to...and to learn from others as well."

 Don Vanthournout, CLO
Accenture

This year's theme:

Collaboration: Improve People Performance & Business Results

This year's conference is the biggest ever. With over 20 presentations in a jam-packed multi-track format to help you take the benefits of business collaboration to the next level.

Enter our raffle and attend for free.
Here's how.