Inspiration

 

Calling All Green Citizens 7/26/09

 

It's Sunday and I am traveling home from the Hyatt's Customer Roundtable and it's a perfect time to give thanks for the inspirational speakers that we experienced during the program.

Tamara Kennedy-Hill led a great session on, "What Shade of Green is Your Meeting?" The major take-away for me was, Measure, Report, Reduce;

MEASURE: You can only manage what you measure, reward success and encourage Improvement.

REPORT: Third party reporting is most effective along with annual tracking

REDUCE: Reductions at the source and if not, recycle or repurpose.

Vince Lombardi, Jr. was all about inspiring motivation. As much o this blog is about green and sustainable practices I will list some of Vince's quotes paired with the APEX Green Meetings and Events Practices (GMEP) about to be launched.

"Dissatisfaction is the essence of motivation" - With the lack of metrics for measuring green events the Convention Industry Council, Green Meetings Industry Council and the US EPA set out to gather volunteers to write these.

"Growth, change, improvement is a process" With the approval of the GMEP the industry will have a template for process of greening our meetings.

Vince quoted Ken Blanchard, author of the, "One Minute Manager" – "Feedback is the Breakfast of Champions" The GMEP will be this feedback loop for measuring the greening of meetings.

I haven't event touched upon the terrific session on Leadership that Terri Breining led, the awesome display of hypnotism during Anthony Galie's presentation on motivation and visioning success, and several more session that were concurrent with these.

Inspiration takes place when you unplug from your daily routine and experience a well planned educational program like this. I am refreshed, renewed and revitalized.

I hope that each of you has time this summer to have your very own time out and rediscover what lights your fire.

Be Well, Behave and Be Green

Kim is on the Board of Directors for the Financial and Insurance Conference Planners association (FICP) where he is Vice President of Education. He volunteers on the, CIC's APEX/ASTM Green Meetings Events Panel. He is currently an Event Marketing Specialist with Guardian Investor Services LLC, NY, NY. Kim received the award of Greenest Meeting Planner of 2009 at the Green Travel Summit in March 2009.