Pick A Meal, Any Meal

So the thought randomly occurs to me that if one HAS to communicate something, it should be done so quickly, effectively, and absolutely. Not that anyone follows these practices the way they theoretically should (I for instance still suffer problems in this regard) but in the working world, more importantly the Convention Services world, holding information is equivalent to letting a patient die on the operating table. Not releasing it (saving that patient) could easily and quickly kill both meeting, function, motivation for staff, and hinder any profit extracted by host property.

That being said, all should go into the role of meeting planner with a game plan. Know what you're doing, before you do it. Nothing is more frustrating than a meeting planner who has tasks and information spilling all over themselves because they don't know what to do with it. It's ACTUALLY not that difficult to implement that goal seeing as to how society has deemed it necessary to print various "Meeting Planning for Dummies" tutorial kits so they can all hear the cliched phrase:

"SO YOU'RE GOING TO BE A MEETING PLANNER"

I don't smell rocket science anywhere in the vicinity, but I my nose could be failing me. Allow me to continue:

1. NO ONE is psychic
2. A 4 star property certifies you have a staff that is at least willing
3. Food already cooked can actually overcook when sitting due to last minute information that spilled out of someone's belongings and landed underneath the head table.

Please, please, please, give room to those who need it! If 90 degree weather presents itself with a relentless sun and staggering humidity, we cannot change it, we can only work around it (and uncomfortably I might add) But as the final word before the apocalypse, we are essentially powerless without word from YOU-the meeting planner. So I ask you--what is your word? Is it a beautiful day in the neighborhood, or are we screwed mercilessly with no KY? I for one do not like waiting to find this information out--and that's what it goes back to--INFORMATION and COMMUNICATION. And IC has a message for all of us-THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE USED MORE OFTEN!!!!!

(Or at least, that's the text I got from them this morning before they became legally separated) I don't know...what can I say...I'm just an industry worker like you. But my "you" is kind of annoyed-let me scratch it for a sec---)...

-Psychiatrist for You