Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Venue: Things To Consider When Planning A Business Meeting

By Anne M. Middlebrook


There are number of reasons due to which many business organizations hold their functions or meetings at external places. They may feel that their office building is not suitable for their meeting, they may be transferring their office or they may think that their building is not able to do justice with their event.

Most of the reasons include the preference of the attendees, the location attendees are coming from, the agenda of the meeting or just to escape the busy and stress from their work environments. Meetings can appear like a forum, excursion or could also be the conventional conference.

So, in short, you can say that there are number of factors that are involved while selecting a meeting or function venue and mostly because of compromise a neutral venue get selected.

In this regard, location of the venue comes at first place. You have to select such a venue for which your clients don't have to travel for longer time. if your clients have to come from out of city then you have to select such a place which is near to the highway or airport or motorway.

Parking possibilities is also very important to consider because some people are really skeptical about proper parking places and whether the area is secure enough to park.

Once these two things are taken care of the next task will be to select a venue which is according to your meeting requirement, since it should facilitate the purpose of your meet up by providing necessary aids. For lectures and speeches auditorium is the best option since it has all the listening and visual aids as well as seating arrangements for proper information flow.

For meetings where there are a large number of people expected, it is better to go for a meeting place that has a seating capacity appropriate to the event. Make sure you count the number of seats as per the expected attendance. It is also better to check on their WiFi and other audio and visual aids that would be required during the meeting.

So, you have to select such a venue which simply shows the character and status of your organization. Clients always give importance to such meeting that are held at neutral places and often portrays an image of your organization from those meetings.




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