Running A Successful Annual Partners Meeting

Make sure you have a killer keynote speaker, and that the microphone works. Have a focused overall theme, and stick to it. These are among the recommendations from consultant Jim Pagliaro, in his post Seven Steps for Planning and Delivering a Successful Annual Partners Meeting With Lasting Impact. “The expense and lost opportunity costs of these meetings,” he writes, “only make sense when balanced by the discipline of careful planning, clear goals, and a vision for what leadership hopes to accomplish by bringing the partners together once a year.”