Post-Meeting/Follow-Up
* Hold a post-convention meeting with the same people who attended the pre-convention meeting. Evaluate what worked and what did not; review the bills and solicit feedback immediately from the facility.
* Ask your attendees to provide feedback about the program content and format, meeting facility, speakers, meal functions and other special activities.
* Administer evaluations immediately after the meeting while opinions are still fresh and your staff can be present to collect the information. Otherwise, mail surveys or evaluations from the meeting so they are on participants' desks when they return to work.
* Solicit feedback from the meeting sponsor. Determine whether the meeting goals were met. Evaluate the financial implications of the meeting. Identify next steps. Consider a more formal measurement tool to measure a meeting's return on investment.
The following are some ways to approach this:
1. Consider unique goals of individual meetings.
2. Test attendees before and after training sessions to document how much and what was learned.
3. Share Return on Investment (ROI) information with senior management and meeting sponsors.
* Write a meeting report and file it away and provide a copy to senior management.
* File contracts for future meetings.
* Write thank-you letters to staff, speakers, hotel staff and other vendors.
WHERE DO I START?
* Negotiation Techniques [PDF] 
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