GMIC’s Foundations of Sustainable Event Planning
Meeting and event professionals are required to balance a variety of strategic, financial and project management skills in designing successful events. The CMP international standards also recognize the importance of sustainability as a strategic skill for global planners today.
This interactive one day training session will address the core knowledge and skills of developing a sustainability action plan for your meeting or event. Exploration of an event case study will be applied to the action steps as well as to baseline requirements for the APEX/ASTM sustainable event standards will be explored.
Target Audience:
The target audience includes planners and suppliers in organizations that are just starting to explore sustainable meetings and have minimal/no sustainable meeting elements within their current meetings portfolio. This target audience faces obstacles such as:
- How do I get started?
- How do I establish sustainability goals and objectives?
- How can I incorporate sustainable meeting practices into my planning process with minimal impact to my current scope of work?
- How do I begin to implement specific actions into my scope of practice?
Participants of this session will be able to:
- Write a business case for sustainability planning for your event
- Develop sustainability goals and measurable objectives
- Outline a stakeholder engagement action plan related specifically to their organization
- Identify the measurement areas of sustainable events standards
To schedule this course in your community contact, tamara@gmicglobal.org.
This course will provide 6 CEU/CMP credit hours. Nonmember pricing is $225 for the full day course and $175 for GMIC members.
GMIC’s 7 Steps to Integration® of the APEX/ASTM Environmentally Sustainable Event Standards
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Attend the industry’s official training program for the upcoming APEX/ASTM Environmentally Sustainable Event Standards. This full day training program begins with an introduction to sustainable event standards, walks you through the process of applying the upcoming standards in your RFP processes and leaves you with a practical application of the standards while working alongside your peers. Each participant receives a workbook and certificate of completion at the end of the workshop.
LEARNER OUTCOMES: Participants of this course will be able to:
- Describe the methodology around the APEX/ASTM environmentally sustainable meeting standards
- Implement the APEX/ASTM standards into your RFP and contracting process
- Develop an action plan to increase the environmental performance and business impact from using these standards for your events.
Target Audience:
The target audience includes planners and suppliers in organizations that have been involved in some sustainable event planning or practices within their organizations and seek to analyze and compare industry standards to their internal programs. Participants should have an understanding of setting goals and objectives, writing a sustainability policy and stakeholder engagement. (Applied practitioner or Advanced practitioners).
To schedule this course in your community contact, tamara@gmicglobal.org.
This course will provide 6 CEU/CMP credit hours. Nonmember pricing is $225 for the full day course and $175 for GMIC members, plus cost of standards.
