Updates on TAP 2025 Annual Meeting

Online Registration Site

OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS

RESERVATIONS CUT OFF DATE - MAY 23, 2025

Hyatt Place Green Hills Hotel

3815 Beford Avenue

Nashville, TN 37215

Special Group Rate of $185 for night of June 20, 2025.

Go to Reservations or

call 888-591-1234 and use Group Code G-TAOP for reservations.

EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS, CEUs

and LUNCH SPEAKER

9:00 - 10:30 AM

Robert B. Blair, PhD, PRP

"Professional Business Writing for Parliamentarians" 1.5 CEUs

This session will provide an overview of professional business writing excellence. Parliamentarians will become better prepared to meet the needs of their clients. Those pursuing the Registered Parliamentarian credential will gain more confidence to take the exam. The session will review the foundations of communications; apply the four steps of preparing a message; and evaluate business document formats including the three basic writing patterns to address any situation.

Mary Beth Hickman, RP

"The ABCs of Effective Bylaws" 1.5 CEUs

This session will describe the fundamental information for excellence in an organization's bylaws; the relationship of the bylaws to other governing documents; and the process for amending bylaws.

10:45 - 11:55 AM

PLENARY SESSION

C J CAVIN, JD, PRP, CPP-T

"Agendas and Order of Business" 1.0 CEU

A fundamental aspect for excellent meetings is having a properly organized agenda. But how do we do that? This workshop will focus on the requirements for adopting an agenda and the standard order of business..