Good morning everyone,
Today I want to discuss where you tend to meet with your customer. Most larger organizations have meeting rooms that are booked out weeks in advance. This makes it hard to have regular cadences for your meetings. For consultants, meeting locations can begin to look like the local coffee shops and book stores. There are also office suites that can be rented as well.
What about when you have offsite meetings with your teams. Where do you go? Do you rent ballrooms in local hotels? Do you find resorts where you can take all of your teams away to focus? What if there was another option.
A few weeks back I attended a National Speakers Association meeting in Michigan. It was my first one that I have attended after being informed about the meeting multiple times. I decided to drive to Ann Arbor, Michigan to see what it was about and to see my friend Josh who speaks on employee engagement. What I didn’t know is how inspiring the location would be.
The meetings are held at a location just outside of Ann Arbor. It is a venue that has seven different meeting room configurations ranging in size, light catering, and multiple break out areas for discussions and brainstorming on white boards as well as glass. The meeting rooms range in size and configurations of what you desire for our meetings. They have all AV equipment needed to hold small presentations, and recording the event.
As I walked in I could feel the potential of this building to hosting an array of events from workshops, to negotiations, and offsite training for your groups. This is the only site like this that I have experienced and was excited. I kept talking about how great the place was and after seeing the costs to hold meetings I was wanting to talk about replicating this across the country.
This would be great for large cities to have a location where organizations and entrepreneurs could meet with clients and collaborate. The location is actually run by a speaker and I can see why the vision of it works well. I recommend seeing this site for yourself if you are ever in the Ann Arbor area. The organization is called Go To Where Meetings Matter. You’ll be glad you did. Just know that I was not paid and do not receive referrals for this at the time of my blog. Who knows though. Maybe in the future :)
Have a good weekend and check out the format of this organization and see if there are any near you that would suit your need. If not, why not build one for yourself.
Sincerely,
Kevin Sidebottom
Sales and Leadership Enterprises