Five Ways To Make A Splash With Your General Session Seating - AFR Furniture Rental and AFR Event Furnishings Blog

Have you ever walked into a huge ballroom for a General Session and faced a sea of chairs precisely placed and lined up like soldiers? It can be a little intimidating and may set a constrictive tone for the meeting.

Why not loosen it up a bit and have some fun with seating? 2014 Meeting Trends suggest that interaction, engagement and results are the most important factors that planners are looking for in their evaluations of success.

Here are 5 ideas that will make a serious splash:

Maximum View of the Stage: use seating that is comfortable and placed for maximum view of the stage, so guests can see and absorb everything that is happening on it. It is one of the easiest ways to increase productivity in meetings.

Make It Easy To Engage: Bring people closer together and maximize seating while allowing for more interaction between guests and presenters.

Think Comfort: More and more planners are turning to alternative styles of seating.

For a Chik-fil-A session, we used our Chamois and Buckskin stage chairs to create a configuration for VIP seating, which allowed for comfort and kept all eyes on the stage.

Brand it!!! Adding in branded pillows and accent tables can help a conference take on a fresh and trendy direction.

Mix and Match: Mix and match different collections to create an innovative layout for your meeting.

In this configuration for MPISEC, we used their Meeting Forward arrow logo and implemented white lounge sofas and chairs directly in the middle of the ballroom and recreated the meeting logo in an innovative way.

The way you design your meetings, directly impacts how you inspire and engage guests. AFR Event Furnishings is ready to help you put together a perfect environment to help make your next meeting or conference as successful as it can possibly be.

Visit our website at www.afrevents.com to see our exciting new arrivals for 2014, or call your representative at 888-AFR-RENT to find out availability and pricing in your area.

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