Introduction Level

• Skills Assessment

Regardless of their entry point into the industry, the learning journey of every member begins with the online Skills Assessment exercise that identifies critical experience, knowledge, and skill gaps and then provides a prescriptive and personalized development plan for closing those gaps.

Use the Skills Assessment to self-evaluate your skills and competencies in all core areas of expertise for meetings and business events. You will then be able to compare your skills to a standardized job description that best matches your current position or against a job to which you aspire for the future.

To close the gaps that the Skills Assessment identifies, you will receive a personalized development plan, including a comprehensive list of recommended resources that will help you to reach your next career level.

The Online Skills Assessment test is currently being updated and should be ready for use by Summer 2010.

• Introduction to the Meetings and Events Industry

For those new to the industry, including our student community, MPI will offer a boot camp which is an industry on-boarding experience. This program will provide insights into the meeting and event industry's possible career paths and the requirements for entering that career. The boot camp will be delivered through a blended approach of instructor-led seminars, Webinars, and other Web-enabled development tools.

The curriculum is currently being developed.

Basic Level

• Global Certificate in Meetings and Business Events - Level I

For those who are just getting started in the industry (0-3 years of experience), MPI offers the Global Certificate in Meetings and Business Events I . This certificate is based on an internationally consistent body of knowledge and is easily transferable. The Global Certificate in Meetings and Business Events I course equips students and early career professionals with basic proficiency to organize the logistics of meetings and events.

Intermediate Level

• Global Certificate in Meetings and Business Events - Level II

As a meeting and business events project manager, you coordinate the logistics of meetings and business events. You need to find the ideal location and venue for your meetings, and you need to negotiate the contract with your vendors - all within the budget parameters you have been given.

Sound familiar? Then this program is for you. The Global Certificate in Meetings and Business Events II provides meeting and business event professionals with learning and development opportunities that focus on operations, while working toward the knowledge requirements for passing the CMP Exam.

• CMP Program or CMP Online Study Guide

The Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) program is a confirmation of acquired skills and competencies. The CMP is a global professional designation delivered by the Convention Industry Council (CIC). MPI is a proud supporter of the CIC's Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) Program.

Advanced Level

• Global Certificate in Meetings and Business Events - Level III

Are you a meeting and business event project and team leader with a primary focus of leading the planning of the project and the project team? Are you responsible for doing the strategic planning of your projects? Delivering measurement results? Setting and analyzing your project finances?

Then you will also need to establish and maintain relationships with the project stakeholders and carry out the marketing and communication plan. This certificate program will provide you with learning and development opportunities that focus on leading your project and your project teams to a successful completion of the meeting and business event operations.

• Global Certificate in Meetings and Business Events - Level IV

The GCMBE IV is the culmination step in education process along the Global Certificate in Meetings and Business Events curriculum. GCMBE I - III are designed to illustrate, educate and frame the industries critical skill set and GCMBE IV will continue the path to ensure that business owners are able to demonstrate outstanding organizational performance and business results through the management and design of meetings and business events. Meeting and business event professionals are expected to speak the language of business and to evaluate and explain the value of meetings as a critical element of organizational success.

The scope and development of the Global Certificate for Meetings and Business Events IV curriculum will build on the teachings of GCMBE I - III in these critical areas of expertise.

The Global Certificate for Meetings and Business Events IV is currently under development with a Late 2010 launch date.

Strategic Level

• Certification in Meetings Management (CMM)

The Certification in Meetings Management (CMM) is a designation for advanced and senior industry professionals. It looks at the business of meetings as well as business management modules related to meetings. The mission of the Certification in Meeting Management (CMM) program is to select, educate, and certify management-level meeting and event professionals. The focus of the certification is to provide continuing educational enhancements to the strategic decision-making ability of these leaders to manage and deliver exceptional meetings and events that drive organizational success.

Class/Course Duration: Five (5) Days
Language: Sufficient proficiency in English is required.

Executive Level

• Executive Leadership Program

For our most senior and executive level industry professionals who have progressed beyond the need for meeting and event management education, MPI is developing a leadership program (MBA level, focused on business executive leadership skills) for presentation at its conferences or as a stand-alone opportunity, along with opportunities for on-going engagement between members of this community.

MPI has appointed an Executive Advisory Council to provide guidance on the development of a more robust value proposition and program deliverables specifically for executive leaders with global responsibility that includes the management of meetings, events, travel and adjacent spaces.

To view MPI's Knowledge Plan click here