Meeting expectations

Meeting planners battle the unexpected

Come springtime, thoughts turn to baseball, budding flowers, yard work ` and the company meeting.
Some companies use the gathering as a brief retreat; others retreat into rooms filled with projectors and projections. Either way, planners from the business and from the meeting center are asked to be all things to all people.
Sheri Adams, national sales administrator for the Hach Co. in Loveland, puts together Hach’s annual product-training meeting. Her chores don’t end as the four- to five-day affair plays itself out.
“What’s most stressful is feeling responsible for the meeting’s success,” she said. “You…