Is Your Meeting Scrooged?
Despite being wicked good at stretching a budget, meeting planners are not generally known as a stingy crew, and they tend to be “people people” too, with hardly a tinge of misanthrope to be found in the bunch. However, I do see a resemblance to Dickens’ classic character, Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, in some planners who hear about—and sometimes even experience, and see the benefit of—interactive, peer-driven meetings, and yet they still come up with a meetings-speak equivalent of “Bah, humbug!” when it comes to applying some proven adult learning principles to their own events.
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