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Team building is a precious tool which unites people, motivates employees, and increases productivity. In many cases, team building helps in solving many interpersonal conflicts often arising at workplace. Various games, played with right attitude, are primarily fun, and in addition, if they help the participants see each other as a team, they hit a bull’s eye. The employees have great time while... 

How do professionals see 2011? Will their budget or their clients’ budget increase? This year the curve looks clearly better even though we should just keep the fingers crossed for awhile more. If more than a third professionals see unchanged market in 2011 as compared to 2010, and 10% even see a worsening of the situation, 55% foresee a pick up – a definite reason to rejoice. Even though the... 

Secretary/PA is personal assistant, works closely with senior managerial or directorial staff to provide administrative support, usually on a one-to-one basis. PAs help managers to make the best use of their time by dealing with secretarial and administrative tasks. Someone whose job is to help a manager by writing business letters, organizing meetings etc. A personal assistant is often simply called... 

Recent data from MPI’s FutureWatch 2011 Survey and others indicate that more than 80% of meeting professionals are using smartphones and other mobile devices in their jobs. Yet, with this high adoption, relatively few have used mobile applications yet for their own meetings. This is about to change. Meeting professionals and attendees are crossing the chasm of early adoption and are entering into... 

Business networking is the process of establishing a mutually beneficial relationship with other business people and potential clients and/or customers. The key to true business networking is the establishment of a mutually beneficial relationship, and that’s an incredibly rare event at the standard shake-hands-and-exchange your-business-card events that are touted as business networking “opportunities”.... 

Meeting is an event where the primary activity of the attendees is to attend educational sessions, participate in meetings/duscussions, socialize, or attend other organized events. There is no exhibit component to this event. Generally, meeting is gathering of people, as for a business, social, or religious purpose.   »

A Festival is an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community, serves to meet specific needs, as well as to provide entertainment. There are numerous types of festivals in the world. Though many have religious origins, others involve seasonal change or have some cultural significance. Also, certain institutions celebrate their own festival (often called “fests”) to mark some significant... 

The Continuing Medical Education consists of educational activities which serve to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, professional performance and relationships that health professionals use to provide services to patients, the public, or the profession.   »

The ACCME’s Mission is the identification, development, and promotion of standards for quality continuing medical education (CME) utilized by physicians in their maintenance of competence and incorporation of new knowledge to improve quality medical care for patients and their communities. www.accme.org   »

The Association for the Study of Medical Education is a membership organization and is unique in that it draws its members from all areas of medical education – undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing – and from all specialties. It has a function as a forum for debate and exchange of information, and is building on its contacts in medicine and teaching in the UK and among other networks,...