You know it takes a lot to be a meeting professional in today's business world.
MPI has the tools to help you achieve your goals and give you the edge over your
competition. MPI is focused on providing you with the most up-to-date resources,
expertise and peer interaction:
- Be aware of the latest industry trends.
- Be educated and knowledgeable about the meeting and events industry.
- Be able to be a consummate professional in every situation.
- Be an MPI member.
Join MPI now and immediately begin building new professional relationships and business. In this fast-moving and exciting global meeting and events industry, you can't afford to wait.
As a chapter member it is everyone's job to seek new members and we wanted you to have some tools when the opportunity arises to speak about our Chapter and MPI in general.
MPI Speaking Points for Potential Members, August 2005
1) MPI Membership Benefits
· Why MPI? MPI is leading the charge to
make meetings, and those who produce them, key strategic component of every
organization's success. That means a brighter future for you.
- MPI is a global community of 20,000 members in 60
countries and your personal source for success.
- MPI has something for everyone: Corporate planners
must prove the value of meetings they manage. Association planners must generate
income to sustain their organization. Independents are entrepreneurs that must
grow their business. Suppliers must be more strategic partners to the clients
they serve.
- MPI provides world-class education customized to
your level and position, opportunities to build professional relationships and a
personalized lifetime professional development plan for you.
- For employers, MPI provides you with the education,
contacts and tools you need to execute more effective meetings that further the
organization's overall strategic goals and show ROI.
- For suppliers, MPI means business via exposure for
your company to over 10,000 planners with average budgets of $1.5 million. MPI
is the industry's only association to maintain a 50:50 buyer/seller
ratio.
- Benefits for all members include a chapter membership, volunteer leadership opportunities, discounts on MPI products and conferences, The Meeting Professional, early access to news and trends, and research such as salary surveys, industry forecasts, multicultural business projections and more.
2) Through MPI Member Solutions beginning in January, MPI will know your
education needs better than any other meetings industry association, so you
should become a member now.
MPI is leading this
unprecedented offering to define meeting planning as a respected, recognized
profession through standardized meeting professional job descriptions, core
competencies and outreach to CEO's, human resource professionals, faculty and
students. MPI Member Solutions will provide a lifetime of professional
development for MPI members, and create paths for them to evolve to positions of
strategic influence via:
- MYMPI: a personalized Web portal delivering education, content and information specific to member profile and preferences
- MPI Professional Pathways: aWeb-based skills
assessment, gap analysis and development plan tool based on the industry's first
clearly defined core competencies and job descriptions for meeting
professionals
**See a five-minute demo of Professional Pathways on MPIWEB.ORG ** - MPI Resources: a one-on-one center for news, information, research
3) What
is MPI doing to increase influence with executives about our industry and the
value of meetings?
- MPI Chairwoman Christine Duffy, President and CEO of Maritz Travel, one of the world's largest meeting and event management companies, is leading MPI's research and influence initiatives to educate senior executives about how meetings can drive business results. MPI is committed to making planners known as strategic contributors to a company's success instead of party planners or logistics managers.
- New education programs are designed to strengthen your core business competencies and make you a strategic asset. Programs include the ROI Platinum Series based on Dr. Jack Phillips ROI methodology proven in other industries, Influencing Executives Track and Institutes III/Leadership Academy. '
- The Global Corporate Circle of Excellence has published a series of white papers and toolkits about strategic meetings management and the benefits of partnering with key stakeholders such as procurement.