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Students are our future in the Meetings and Events Industry
By admin | April 27, 2006
This note to me is from a meeting planner who also teaches a class in the Travel and
A meeting planner, Marianne, emailed me asking me to speak to her students last minute. However, I was too busy with appointments in the city that day to make it back into the suburbs to speak and had to decline “initially”.
However, I had felt an overwhelming desire to help our future and really wanted to speak to the kids. Therefore, at the last minute, I cancelled all of my appointments to make a point of being there to help our future. The following note makes it all worth while and I hope it will inspire you to do the same when you “receive the call”!
Jim, Jim, Jim…..
I can never thank you enough for addressing the Incentive Travel Planning Class last evening.
Amanda and I spoke this morning and she told me you were “great”! That you presented the perspective of the DMC discipline as it needed to be presented and then built the tenuous relationship back up from there.
I'm booking you right now for the Fall!!!!! I will be teaching a fundamentals of Meeting and Event Planning at that time, but same DMC issues will prevail and I want all the students who come through my classes to understand that there are lifelines out there - great ones - and there is nothing better than a client who raves about the success of his meeting/event. And you know it is because you were smart enough to partner with the right people.
Bless you! And thank you again and again.
Best regards,
Marianne
Marianne McNulty, CMP, CTIE
Your Right Source, LLC/ The Meeting Connection
241 Belle Vue Lane
Sugar Grove, IL 60554-9477
One is never too busy to help our industry’s future. I was also happy to see the PCMA is supporting this group at the College of Dupage. They provide a student program and also student memberships. The PCMA publications and sign up forms were everywhere! I was surprised, however, to not see one MPI magazine or publication. I would recommend that MPI gets more involved to help these kids. They are truly motivated, and are truly our next generation of meeting professional.
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