Audience Engagement
No matter what type of event you’re planning, we’re willing to bet that audience engagement is one of your top priorities – and, more than likely, one of your biggest challenges. These days, event organizers are facing serious competition when it comes to holding the attention of their audiences. In a world in which distractions are always within reach (literally and figuratively!), figuring out how to engage an audience has become as essential as it is challenging. But with a few tips and a solid variety of audience participation ideas...
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How to Plan an Incentive Trip on a Limited Budget
Incentive trips are a smart, essential investment for any company, including major corporations and small businesses alike. Offering incentive trips for employees can directly contribute to stronger business results, in addition to a multitude of other advantages. And here’s more good news: an outstanding incentive trip is possible even if you’re working with a limited budget. In fact, with some savvy budget hacks for travel planning, there are plenty of great company trip ideas that are far more affordable than you might think. What is an Incentive Trip? Essentially, an...
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Meet MTA: Zaria Hampton, Global Experience Specialist
The Miller Tanner Associates’ (MTA) difference is our people. That’s why we want to introduce you to our team of superstars that brings our corporate meetings and events to life for our customers. Today we introduce you to Global Experience Specialist Zaria Hampton. Zaria works diligently behind the scenes on behalf of our Global Experience Team providing customer service excellence for our event attendees. Meet Zaria Hampton Tell us about your current role with MTA? What are your primary responsibilities? I am a global experience specialist based in Atlanta. I’m...
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2022 MTA Workshop Awards
At Miller Tanner Associates’ (MTA) 2023 Annual Global Workshop we recognize the distinguished associates who have gone above and beyond for our customers and for each other during 2022. We celebrate the team with these five awards that are presented at our Annual Workshop Awards Dinner: MTA GIFT OF SERVICE AWARD: Senior Global Experience Specialist Natalia Bukatova The Gift of Service award recognizes associates who exemplify MTA’s core values by providing exceptional service to both customers and to their fellow team members. This year’s recipient is Senior Global Experience Specialist...
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Success Story: A Gold Medal Win for This Transformational, Immersive CSR
The Event: Every year, MTA hosts a Global Workshop for its internal team, a multi-day event dedicated to in-person training, recognition, and team building for our 76 employees. One of the key team-building components at this Workshop is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The Challenge: To support the Workshop’s 2023 theme of “Partnership,” MTA’s goal was to elevate its CSR both globally and locally. Inspired by our U.S. based customer’s initiatives, MTA wanted to collaborate and focus on disability awareness as part of our CSR. To amplify its impact, MTA’s goals were...
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Meet MTA: Farida Saka, Global Experience Coordinator
The Miller Tanner Associates’ (MTA) difference is our people. That’s why we want to introduce you to our team of superstars that brings our corporate meetings and events to life for our customers. Today we introduce you to Global Experience Coordinator Farida Saka. Farida brings her expertise in project coordination to our Global Experiences Team, helping tackle the essential details involved in the event management process. Meet Farida Saka Tell us about your current role with MTA? As a global experience coordinator, I assist our Global Experience Team with projects...
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Success Story: Celebrating Excellence in Puerto Rico
The Event: A biopharmaceutical company hosts a “Circle of Excellence” incentive event for 41 participants. Challenges: The company’s new planning team, in partnership with Miller Tanner Associates (MTA), established goals based on insights learned from the previous year’s event. MTA took the time to understand the customer’s concerns and developed innovative solutions to ensure the event would be a success. The solutions included a robust communication plan, on-site touchpoints with MTA, expanded activity options, and a one-of-a-kind interactive experience to elevate the incentive event. Highlights: The success of this incentive...
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Success Story: Shared Success for Two Hybrid Investigator Meetings
The Event: As part of a two-program series for our customer, a life science company, MTA planned and executed hybrid investigator meetings in both North America and Europe for a total of 147 in-person attendees and an additional 21 joining virtually. The meetings took place in both Chicago and Barcelona, central locations for global attendees. Challenges: Our team had a condensed planning period of less than six weeks for each program. The transparency requirements, venue availability, costs, virtual accessibility, and complex logistics (attendees for the EU program were coming from...
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Meet MTA: Lexus Mac Dannald, Staff Accountant
The Miller Tanner Associates’ (MTA) difference is our people. That’s why we want to introduce you to our team of superstars that brings our corporate meetings and events to life for our customers. Today we introduce you to Staff Accountant Lexus Mac Dannald with our Finance Team. Lexus’s role is to assist our Finance Team with internal and external accounting operations, keeping our processes running smoothly and efficiently. Meet Lexus Mac Dannald Tell us about your current role with MTA. What are your primary responsibilities? I handle payroll, accounts receivable,...
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Meet MTA: Oksana Kostiuk, Global Experience Specialist
The Miller Tanner Associates’ (MTA) difference is our people. That’s why we want to introduce you to our team of superstars that brings our corporate meetings and events to life for our customers. Today we introduce you to Global Experience Specialist Oksana Kostiuk, our European-based associate. With a background in logistics and business travel, Oksana assists in delivering best-in-class customer service at MTA. Meet Oksana Kostiuk Tell us about your current role with MTA? What are your primary responsibilities? As a global experience specialist, I’m responsible for communication and follow-up...
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Success Story: How VALTs Delivered Tailored Training to 2,500+ HCPs for an International Study Series
The Event: Our customer, a pharmaceutical company, launched a series of international studies with the goal to ensure that all study sites, study coordinators, and/or HCPs involved had access to: The Solution: Using MTA’s proprietary tool, VALTs Virtual Assessment Learning and Training Source, our team designed a robust online system for managing our customer’s training content that met all requirements as defined by the customer. The Results: “Finding a solution that provided our customer with one point to access the data across multiple studies and sites with a lot of...
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Meet MTA: Global Experience Designer Lauren Stagner
The Miller Tanner Associates’ (MTA) difference is our people. That’s why we want to introduce you to our team of superstars that brings our corporate meetings and events to life for our customers. Today we introduce you to Global Experience Designer Lauren Stagner. Lauren is a pro at bringing people together collaboratively to create meaningful experiences with intentionality and exceptionality. Meet Lauren Stagner Tell us about your current role with MTA? What are your primary responsibilities? I am a Global Experience Designer – Events. My primary function in this role...
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