You’ve done a jigsaw puzzle, right? I thought so. And what did you do with the box lid? I’m just guessing here, but you probably kept it close by because it showed what the finished picture looks like. Let’s see, this yellow piece must be part of the flower in the lower right corner. That kind of thing.

That’s how I think about your meeting. A lot of pieces that have to fit together to create a big, successful picture. But all you have to do is describe the picture and I take care of the pieces. Create them. Put them together. Make sure the picture is exactly what you envisioned.

That leaves you free to be the charming, affable host, with all the time in the world for your members or your board. Nothing puzzling about that!

I like to include pieces that not only make a meeting better, but also make it greener. Like choosing a venue that recycles or helping a client develop sustainable menus or going paperless in terms of marketing, registration and materials.

I also offer another service that’s a little different, but very similar. I’ll help you improve your business processes. Need a visual? Think map, not puzzle. Where do things move smoothly? Where are the bottlenecks? How can we fix the bottlenecks or re-route around them to make things run more efficiently?

But like event planning, process improvement has a similar goal: Take the devil out of the details. Let you worry about where you want to go. Not how you\’re going to get there.