Candid Conversations by Catersource & The Special Event

Selling Events Post COVID with Meryl Snow, MerylSnow.com. The pandemic has amplified challenges, exposing weaknesses in our existing sales models. Selling will no longer be about touting accolades and awards. What does this mean for the future of selling?

Risk Management How-To with Holly Verbeck, MakeYourBusinessCook.com. When things go wrong companies lack a solid understanding of basic risk management principles and suffer greatly inflated costs as a result of their ill-planned responses to workers' injuries, customer complaints, and claims, property damage, etc. In this interview, Holly outlines the essential elements of risk management.

How to Create a Sense of Inclusion! Dima Ghawi, DimaGhawi.com, shares information she has gleaned from hundreds of interviews and workplace surveys to teach leaders and business professionals how to create a welcoming and inclusive workforce. Dima highlights the insight of a bottom-up approach, the influence of courageous office culture, and the power of affinity groups.

Hire and Keep Resilient Employees to Navigate Change with Dr. Deborah Gilboa. AskDrG.com. Communication struggles in every department are the biggest obstacles to serving customers and each other, as they cause lost time, lost knowledge, and mounting frustration in the very people we need most to engage. Dr. G focuses on prevention, response, and reconciliation tools to build resilience in each member of your team. Dr. G outlines the strategies you can use to develop each of your employees.

Margaux Fraise. HarmonyCreativeStudio.com. Inspirational shoots can be a handy marketing strategy, but they can also take a lot of effort to conceptualize, plan, coordinate, and execute from start to finish. With all the work that goes into a styled shoot, it's essential that it lives on beyond your website, social media presence, and potential feature. Margaux takes listeners through her streamlined styled shoot process.

Barbara Khozam. BarbaraKhozam.com. "How to Deal With Difficult People In Difficult Situations". Don't let unmanaged conflict affect your relationships, waste your time, and/or create stress. While conflicts, disagreements and emotions are normal, problems can occur when they go unmanaged. This interview will help you take complex solutions and boil them down to simple, measurable actions.

Meghan Ely, OFDConsulting.com. 2021 Global Wedding Trends. Each year, a collective of the top wedding professionals globally share their insight into what's going to be big in the coming year—from food, beverage, and decor to destinations, florals, and colors. In this interview, Meghan Ely will discuss the preparation for the 2021 Global Wedding Trend Report.

Clint Elkins, VP of Sales, WeGrowValue.com. Now more than ever, the ability to run lean to increase profits has never been more vital. The question is- how can you do so without sacrificing the quality of product and service? In this conversation, Clint Elkins will share his expertise on digging deep to find the same-quality alternatives that will yield additional savings, making your catering company more profitable in the long run.

Holly Powers-Verbeck. COVID-19 Best Practices for Independent Chefs & Their Clients. makeyourbusinesscook.com/blog. How professionals working in residential kitchens can elevate their professionalism and their clients' trust.

Silver linings to the pandemic cloud. Jennifer Perna and Francisco Christian. FultonMarketConsulting.com. TayloredHospitalitySolutions.com. How to re-imagine your company. How to prepare for the new future. What resources do you have right now that could be re-purposed?