by cstrauss | Jul 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
For most of us, it’s been 18 months of isolation, separation and quarantine. The opportunity for groups to come together now is more precious and desirable than ever before. I just attended my first in person national conference in Las Vegas last week since this weirdness started, where 425 of my friends and colleagues got to be face to face, hug to hug and smile to smile. It was glorious.
I propose, that being denied something causes it to be even more sweet when it returns. So for meeting planners and team leaders, the key now is to create opportunities for groups to connect, and share their experiences, thier hopes, plans and dreams, and especially thier learnings over the past year with each other.
As a professional Emcee, my job is to highlight opportunities for people, meeting attendees to connect. Whether the space is onsite or online, whenever and however connection and collaboration is possible, my plan is to work with the organization to facilitate that connection.
If you are planning a meeting and would like some support in creating the space for meaningful connection to happen, please reach out and ask. Also the most important thing for your presenters and speakers is to create opportunities for connection to happen either during or after their programs.
by cstrauss | Jun 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
On stage and On line events are all the rage as we move into the Summer and Fall 2021 and beyond. As a professional Emcee, I’m so proud and honored to share the stage and the spotlight at the Event Tech Live Annual Event, with Image Audiovisuals, Simon Melser and Dave Mueller. Thank you Victoria Copans for this article discussing how our session beautifully explains how to do GREAT Hybrid and Virtual Meetings. If I can help your event flow smoothly with energy and focus, just ask! https://www.xliveglobal.com/b2b-experience/what-can-we-learn-standout-session-event-tech-live
by cstrauss | Mar 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Today is the Spring Equinox. The day of balance. The day where the amount of minutes of darkness and of light are equal. This energetic is an opportunity to exercise choice. A day to reflect on the amount of darkness and light that we allow into our personal space. As we are spiritual beings we are directly affected by light, both physical and energetic.
So today I invite each of us to focus on light. As the rotation of the Earth continues to take us physically (in the northern hemisphere) into more light, day by day, that we move toward a brighter evolution of our lives into what comes next. After the past complete earth evolution of challenge, since the last Spring Equinox, today we can consciously choose how we balance light and dark, good and challange, what energies we allow into our beings and those we choose to block, and how we react going forward in a pro-actively balanced way.
So what I wish for us after the year we’ve had since the last Spring Equinox is Equanimity.
* Equanimity • \ee-kwuh-NIM-uh-tee\ • noun. 1 :mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper, especially in a difficult situation.
by cstrauss | Aug 27, 2020 | Business, Current Events, How to, Uncategorized
Work is different now. And there is no where to easily get the skills to run and attend hybrid meetings. Joe Curcillo and I have created 100 Minutes to Brilliant Blended Meetings to solve the challenge of how to conduct and attend blended meetings. In 8 fast moving episodes and a bonus episode for team members, Joe and I combined our 40 years of meeting experience to create the guide for these challenging times. I am here to help. For a preview of the program please go to https://brilliant100.com/. And if an additional discount will help your company thrive, please reach out to me and ask. Happy Meetings!!
by cstrauss | Jul 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
To hear the entire episode
It’s funny how you get the opportunity to appear on a podcast for a whole hour, and it turns out to be questions about your life. I don’t talk a lot about my journey, but I got the chance to do that with the amazing Neil Ball on his show “The Entrepreneur Way”. I want to share here, because sometimes people ask how I got here, and now it’s immortalized, and I don’t have to tell it anymore…. anyone who wants to, can just listen. Thanks Neil for this incredible opportunity, and I wish you all “happy listening”.
by cstrauss | Apr 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
This “stay at home” pause maybe the great equalizer. Through no fault of our own, most of us are now working from home. CEOs of big companies and small, leaders, managers, consultants, journalists, even late night talk show hosts are all working from home.
Something magical is happening here. In normal life, we are defined by and treated as our titles and responsed to, by the perceived responsibilities of our jobs. Normally, CEOs seem unreachable or too busy to connect with. During this time everyone’s life and job have been turned on their side, and everybody’s time has been skewed in one way or another.
So connecting as people and not as “job titles” might be the great benefit of this Corona-pause. Over the past week, I’ve had several Zoom executive consulting sessions with CEOs. I am working in my home office and my dog is in the background, and they are in their home office and there is either a dog or child or a life partner in the background at their home, and we become people having a conversation on how to best move forward.
So perhaps one positive to come out of this time, if we can remain healthy and sane, is to remember that we’re all all just people trying to do the best we can for everybody around us, looking forward to when things shake out and to see how best we can all move forward as human beings and then in our roles for the highest and best good for all in our worlds.
