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Offers some guidelines for meeting planners on where to get help on technical expertise when planning for meetings that involve advanced technology. Independent consultants; Audiovisual suppliers; Convention centers. INSET: Working with a tech expert, by A.C..

Recounts the author's experience as a first-time organizer of a golf tournament. Consultation with experienced golf planners; Sending out invitations; Refreshment cart; Assigning rental clubs; Shotgun format during tee-off; Author's participation as player; Backup plan in case of rain; Replacement of missing emcee. INSET: Setting up the golf card (planning tips)..

Reports on the appointments and promotions of convention and visitor bureau presidents in the United States as of February 1994. Turn over rates; Assignment relocation; List of appointees. INSET: 1993 new CVB heads..

Features San Francisco Bay Area and other neighboring Bay Area cities as venues for the meetings industry. Meeting facilities; Hotels; Attractions. INSETS: Anchors aweigh in Stockton.;Tripping out.;What's new in the San Francisco Bay Area..

Percents several resorts in the United States that offer package deals for meetings. Includes The Homestead in Virginia; The American Club in Wisconsin; Amelia Island Plantation in Florida. INSETS: Hot deals.;Skiing.;Golf.;Tennis.

Desscribes the tourist attractions of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. Convention facilities; Hotels. INSET: Southfork Ranch..

Provides advice on hiring employees. Development of a mission statement for each interview; Right environment for conducting an interview; Questions that can and should be asked during the interview.

Profiles the International Association of Conference Centers (IACC). Rigorous standards for membership; Features offered by IACC-appproved conference centers; Four categories of membership; Customer advisory board; Stages of growth; Annual conference as IACC's main educational tool; Online system; Focus on major growth in international markets; Plans to unite European members under one chapter by 1995.

Outlines the most common management mistakes and ways to avoid them. Arrogance; Indecisiveness; Stubbornness; Negativity; Cowardice.

Offers advice and tips for managers in gauging the mindset of an audience. Attention to body language; Responding to the body language of the audience.

Discusses issues concerning employee retention in the U.S. as of April 2005. Increase in the number of employees seeking new jobs; Factors which affect the loyalty of workers to their employers; Effect of benefits and incentive programs on the performance of workers.

Provides advice on incorporating client feedback into employee motivation programs. Ways of getting feedback from clients; Benefit of client feedback to employees. INSET: Rewards for Recruiting.

Provides advice on how employers can take care of its employees who are caregivers for a family member. Average age of the employed caregiver; Ways that employers can show working caregivers that they also care for their personal well-being; Importance of a flexible work schedule for working caregivers.

Cites the changes to be introduced by the "Incentives" magazine to its succeeding issues. Introduction of a new version of its electronic mail newsletter; Change in its printed issues; Update of its Web site.

Reports on the increase in pay-for-performance plans in the U.S. Results of a survey on performance awards conducted by Mercer Human Resource Consulting; Comparison between the pay-for-performance bonus of employees in 2004 and in 1991; Efforts of companies to focus on the performance of their employees.

Presents views on incentive programs. Percentage of corporate executives who have never run an incentive program on the Internet according to a survey by the Online Incentive Council of the Incentive Marketing Association; Information on the return on investment from running an incentive program on the web.

Advocates the promotion of balance between work and life among employees. Factors which affect employee performance; Significance of the well-being of an employee to the satisfaction of a customer; Benefits of work-life balance programs for companies.

Comments on the attitude of companies and executives towards change. View on change; Belief in managing people in order to manage change; Reaction of the pharmaceutical industry to change.

Reports on the controversy created by the billboard contest launched by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox for his PayKids Foundation in 2004. Criticisms directed towards the contest; Reaction of Domino's Pizza on its involvement with the contest; Defense of Cox for the contest.

Focuses on the 71st Motivation Show held in Chicago, Illinois in September 2004. Realization of companies that they need to get back to formally recognizing the work that their employees do; Remarks from several incentive industry executives on the outlook for the industry.

Focuses on the discontent of U.S. employees over their jobs. Overview of a survey by Careerbuilder.com on employee attitudes toward their jobs; Role of managers in ensuring worker satisfaction.

Introduces an article on the benefits of free online music downloads to employee incentive programs.

Focuses on the efforts of IMEX marketing and operations director Carina Bloom and her colleagues to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise money for the Emergency Appeal Fund of UNICEF. Information on the development of the fund raising idea; Other fund raising efforts of Bloom.

Introduces an article on increasing health care costs.

Presents the highlights of the Incentive Marketing Association annual conference held in Naples, Florida in August 2004. Focus of the educational sessions; Views of Regis Marketing Group CEO Regis Welsh on the importance of identifying the goal in providing incentives to buyers.

Presents an overview of topics discussed in the August 2004 issue of the periodical "Incentive." Tips on planning a sporting incentive program; Effects of incentive program to employee motivation.