Attending a conference, a 'meet&greet', a convention, a symposium or some other similar event is always fun and useful from the visitor's perspective, but there is a lot of effort that goes into it behind the curtains.
In order to create a successful event, it all has to be perfectly merged and run smoothly - times&dates, venues, speakers&guests, expected number of visitors, accommodation,... but also various platforms and channels for promoting the event itself. According to Billetto - https://bit.ly/2z57BWz - there are few principles that have been shown to be effectively working when it comes to event management.
To start with, planning sheets are always a good ideas as they provide a more visually systematical insight into all the ideas written in separate spaces, making them more neat and tidy, easier to use and to make further plans. Written tasks can also be handed out in a form of a leaflet to others involved in the event planning , making the process run fluently and well-coordinated.
Further on, it is always a good idea to form a team of reliable members who will, without doubt, fulfill the task given to them. This is one of the most important skills when it comes to planning - team leadership and management. Just to build on my last post - internal communication is crucial in order to make an event happen successfully - everyone behind the scenes should be comfortable and competent for the assigned responsibility.
How to Plan an Event Step By Step: https://bit.ly/2eVKYsT
It goes without saying, but in the time of creating an event from nothing, organisational and creative skills are given a chance to shine brighten than ever. This is the time to put all the ideas into practice, thinking of numerous ways of how to make the event delightful, interesting and what's more important - engaging for all the visitors. If the audience is given a chance to interact with presenters and other guests, there is no doubt they will have higher opinion of the event itself, but also stick around longer and recommend it to others.
Some say that there are 5 crucial skills that an event manager should posses in order to become lucrative:
🔥My experience: when I was an intern working for a PR agency in Zagreb, Croatia, I was involved in planning the event that had two major parts - first a marathon run for charity followed by the ceremony of lighting up a newly built bridge in the town of Osijek in Croatia. This event was sponsored by Coca Cola, so there was a prize game involved as well. Anyway, it is clear that we had to manage the whole event so that in the end it would seem as if Coca Cola organized it, and it was not easy. I was given a task of contacting all relevant journalists - either TV, radio on newspaper, and that was highly time-consuming so I was given only one more assignment - writing 'protocols' for all the speakers and actions happening on stage minute by minute, also quite demanding. We had deadlines and I have to admit it was kind of stressful, but at the end, the event went smoothly and successfully, which made all the effort worth it. (Their clients: https://bit.ly/2FkF5F3)
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