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If you’re hosting an executive retreat, something big is happening. Whether you're restructuring, brainstorming a new product direction, merging with another company, or focusing on executive teambuilding, you need to ensure that your retreat is meticulously planned around these developments and the dynamics within your team. Here are our three best recommendations for strategies aimed at delivering excellence at your next executive retreat. 1. Choose the Right Location and V

With plenty of experience in private equity, the team at Metavent understand the importance of the annual partners meeting. Each and every year. This is THE meeting where the performance of your fund’s investments are tied back to the performance of your portfolio investments and everyone is held accountable. Investors are watching and you don’t want to miss a beat. Stressed just thinking about it? Don’t be! Here’s how you can skip all the worry and relax into your most impor

If you are a heading up a startup, running a venture capital or private equity fund or otherwise beholden to investors, then hosting a successful investor meeting couldn’t be more critical. As with any event, it is critical to plan conference investor meetings based on your objectives. Do you need to win support for a critical decision? Keep investment dollars flowing into specific projects? Justify a new investment and/or consummate a deal with partners? Whatever your intend

In addition to a BANG UP year-end party, there are many other ways to use the “giving season” to give back through thoughtful holiday perks and team incentives. The key is taking a seasonal theme, current trends or the latest company happenings and leveraging these into thank you’s which are relevant and resonate with your team. Here are three timeless opportunities for you to show your team you truly care this holiday season.

Whether the cost of hosting a year-end party is justified is cause for much debate in corporate circles. Many companies have chosen to cut back on year-end functions yet they remain a great way to strengthen ties with existing employees. Emphasizing and showcasing company culture and celebrating the accomplishments of your team.

Sales meetings don’t have to be deadly and dry. You want to energize them, not put them to sleep. Creatively working your content can be one of your best strategies for keeping your team engaged and interested in the key messages you need to deliver. With technology at your side and apps, videos and visuals there for the taking, what’s holding you back? With these three tips to make your creative sales presentation captivating, there’s nothing standing in your way.

All great events start by identifying your bullseyes – who is your target audience and what is the objective of your event? In the case of your annual sales meeting, in many cases, you will be catering to a primarily male audience, with high energy levels, great expectations and low tolerance for boredom. An after party’s a great way to re-energize your sales team after they have sat through the more traditional sales meeting format where you have briefed them on the upcoming

When you hear training you probably think… dark room, no fresh air, sitting (lots of sitting), over indulgent snacks, over consumption and any attempt to keep awake. But training doesn’t have to be so blah blah blah fall asleep at your desk. Creating engaging and memorable corporate training events can be a game-changer for team productivity and morale.

Why does the company holiday party always come as a bit of a surprise? Maybe for the same confusing reason the holiday season seems to arrive quicker each year. Whatever the reason, company holiday parties are often half-forgotten until the last minute. Turning year-end celebrations into a scramble. Made all the more difficult when you find out your team has been hanging out for this year-end event you haven’t started planning yet. Meaning half-measures won’t cut it.

As event spending has come under more scrutiny, another trend has emerged: outsourcing of the event planning and management function to third-party event planning firms. Outsourcing corporate event planning can make a lot of sense, depending on the frequency of your events, the types of events you need to run and the diversity of your target audiences. Here are our top 5 reasons to skip all the stress of event planning by outsourcing the lot.