Go out for a quick dog walk with Alycia Drube, founder of Positive+Impact Event Consulting and get a short nugget about Sustainability in Events and your Event Business. Every week I will bring you innovative sustainability ideas that can be implemented at your events.
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Go out for a quick dog walk with Alycia Drube, founder of Positive+Impact Event Consulting and get a short nugget about Sustainability in Events and your Event Business. Every week I will bring you innovative sustainability ideas that can be implemented at your events.
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A lesson from Positive Psychology - use positive framing to keep your communication concrete and improve the chances your audience remembers what you want them to know.
We cover:
Negation processing difficulty - the brains inclination to omit or not process negating words like "not" or "don't" and act on concrete concepts. e.g. Telling yourself "don't spill... don't spill... don't spill" while walking your full cocoa to the couch, your brain omits the modifying words and only processes "spill... spill...spill" into action.
Negativity Bias - The negativity bias is a natural tendency to focus more on negative information than positive information. This bias is thought to have evolved to help us survive by making us more aware of potential threats. [source: https://traumaresearchuk.org/the-negativity-bias-understanding-and-overcoming-our-brains-tendency-to-focus-on-the-negative/]
Emphasis on positive framing for comprehension and retension.
Also sited: Laura Yarbrough-Lloyd and the A Flair for VIP Events podcast: https://lauralloydevents.com/
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Getting started in making your events and event business more sustainable is easier than you think! Step One: start measuring what you are doing now, no changes necessary! By setting your baselines for your business activities, the practices of your vendors, and of your individual events you'll be able to share your improvements once you start making more conscientious choices.
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*One Simple Change TODAY*
With this small change in your planning you are eradicating your assumptions by systematically ASKING whether you can dispose of your waste the way you think you can with your venues and sites.
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YES!
Believe it or not, where you BANK is a big indicator of your overall Economic Sustainability because while your money sits in checking, savings, retirement, the institution you bank with is investing and recycling your money. By choosing who to bank with you indicate your priorities of where you want it invested (and how much of the profit goes back to you instead of making the bankers rich.)
To see how your bank compares check out: https://mightydeposits.com/
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Breaking down name badges from the basis of Environmental Sustainability, Social/Community Sustainability, Personal Health/Wellbeing Sustainability, and Economic Sustainability.
Name badges may be tough to crack but if you treat every element of your event as a metric to tweak for 1% growth on sustainability, you'll be surprised how many ways you can improve.
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On this walk with Renee (she only rolls in the leaves once) we break down break down Sustainability efforts into the 4 Pillars outlined by Positive+Impact Event Consulting. To reference the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals visit: https://sdgs.un.org/goals
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In event management we talk a lot about the "why" knowing the reason and goals behind your event helps you make better choices. This week I dive into why I started the podcast, got into events, and how you can use those feelings to cultivate your "why" behind elevating your positive impact.
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In celebration for my anniversary of releasing the 1st episode as well as the monumental 50th episode I am sharing with you the parts of my recording that usually hit the "cutting room floor" all Renee chat, no Sustainability chat.
You may end up using this episode as a little mental break when you need to go on a short walk to talk to dogs, birds, squirrels and puppies.
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In this episode I walk you through my experience at Seattle Coffee Festival and what they did to have GREAT SUCCESS at their sustainability initiative.
They were working on reducing landfill waste and aiming for a compostable waste festival. It went super well, hear what worked, what needs improvement for next time, and hopefully take away a better understanding of how to jump in and start making sustainability a priority at your next event (even if you don't get to Net Zero!)
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ONE SMALL CHANGE TODAY
Behavioral Psychology (n) the study of the connection between the human mind and people's behavior.
Bystander Effect: a phenomenon in which people fail to offer needed help in emergencies, especially when other people are present in the same setting. Studies of this tendency, initially described in response to well-publicized failures of bystanders to render aid in emergencies, have identified a number of psychological and interpersonal processes that inhibit helping, including misinterpreting other people’s lack of response as an indication that help is not needed, confusion of responsibility, and diffusion of responsibility.
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My first ever RERUN! This is a re-edited version of the classic episode, #9 Event Pros are LEADERS:
In this episode, I dive into the premise of event planning as a powerful form of leadership. Event planners shape environments that influence attendees' actions, ideas, and emotions, making us natural leaders in the process. I how to incorporate sustainability as a benefit of your leadership.
I share my perspective on how we, as event professionals, can lead by example—setting high standards, influencing client perceptions, and fostering a culture of collaboration and sustainability within our communities.
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Buzzword: defined as "A buzzword is a word or phrase, new or already existing, that becomes popular for a period of time. Buzzwords often derive from technical terms yet often have much of the original technical meaning removed through fashionable use, being simply used to impress others."
If you listen to this podcast then for you Sustainability should NOT be a buzzword... But if you don't feel like you have the literacy and feel like you can't use the techincal terms with any comfort it's time to do a refresh.
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Using the 4 Pillar approach we look at ways to make event transportation more sustainable.
Without taking away flights or events at destinations, how would you consider your opportunities to improve the environmental, social/community, personal health, and economic sustainability of your events? How can your transpo vendors and experts support you?
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Educating the world about what is sustainable, how to make more sustainable choices, and how to support real sustainable action is the 12th of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
In this episode I talk about the power of educating your attendees, clients, audience, and marketing about your sustainability goals, action steps, and expectations. I also challenge you to convert the style of some of your marketing communications from a promotional tone, to an educational tone.
Other tips this episode:
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Food is infinitely complex, necessary, and a big element of our human lives - let's use the 4 Pillar approach to consider some food choices and how they can be improved from an environmental, social/community, personal health/wellbeing, and economic vantage point.
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We covered Step 0 - get your baselines
We covered Step 1 - do the best you can with the information you have. Progress over Perfection. Better is Better. Use your own energy wisely and always look for low cost (energy, money, or time) ways to address each pillar.
4 Pillars of Sustainability
Environmental
Social/Community
Personal Health/Wellbeing
Economics
Now we cover Step 2 - How do you keep going? How do you build on your wins? When do we go Net Zero?
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*One Simple Change TODAY*
Signage - Your ONE simple change for today is (for planners) ask for and/or (for printers) make a policy that all Signage materials must be recyclable.
I would NEVER advocate for less signage - so that means we need to be smart about the qualities of all our helpful signs. As with all materials it is part of the "know how every item exits the event" policy, in this case recycle is superior to landfill.
Benefits:
-Recycling is a better option than Landfill
-Making 100% of materials recyclable and communicating that to all teams (planning/strike, venue, client) reduces confusion and extra management of supplies during strike
-You never have to worry about guests or staff asking "where does this go?" again and get to confidently tell your client and attendees that you are a Leader in recycling event materials.
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The next evolution of event planning is cooperative sustainability! Have you heard of events sharing a carpet install?
This week I talk about maximizing your environmental and economic sustainability by collaborating with your venue and the events before and after yours to preserve things like carpet installs, expensive tech rentals/deliveries, and other drop off/pick-up decor.
You could wind up with big discounts, reduced waste, a great report for your event footprint, and more collaborators in your network! How have you made your supplies more sustainable through sharing?
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This is a conversational episode in which Alycia is talking through some of the communication failures of the Sustainability movement and within event professional education.
She covers:
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Get the overview on the Events Industry Council certification that I earned before I started Positive+Impact Event Consulting - Sustainable Event Professional Certification (SEPC)
https://eventscouncil.org/Sustainability/SEPC
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