Smart Meetings scanned new and renovated hotels across the globe and pinpointed some qualities you can expect to see highlighted in lobbies, guest rooms and meeting spaces when you are out and about again.

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Make staff recognition meaningful by making it timely, specific, sincere, positive and frequent, says Bob Nelson. "I like to think of ways you can work it into your daily pattern, for instance, at a staff meeting Monday morning, that type of thing," he says.

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Although they quickly adapt to new technology, what really matters to millennials is staying connected with the world online or offline. Here are just a few tips to market to the millennial generation.

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Introverts can reduce presentation anxiety by looking to supportive faces, engaging with the audience before the Q&A session, pausing frequently and not pretending to know everything, writes Ann Handley. "It's preferable to say, 'I don't know. I will get back to you on that' vs. BS-ing an answer to a question that has that telltale slick veneer of absolute horse poop," she writes.

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We know that meetings are powerful economic engines. Sales generated by bringing people together in 2019 was estimated at $2.5 trillion globally. As we transition to a post-Covid world, it’s critical that we recalculate what is important (and do more of that) and what isn’t (and cut that out, if possible).

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