Advanced Event Planning
102-16
Project and event management
Advanced Skills for the Event Planner
This course explores the more complicated aspects of event planning and goes beyond the basics to help you plan, budget for, and execute flawless events in your organization.
Participants should have some experience planning events or have previously taken the Introduction to Successful Event Planning workshop.
At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Budget more efficiently
- Negotiate with the venues more effectively
- Read a contract more professionally
- Build timelines and write scenarios
Budgeting
- Methodology to building, planning and managing a budget
- Learn what are the real costs to building an event
- The importance of ROI (return on investment)
Negotiation
- How to negotiate a contract with a venue
- Learn what is negotiable
- Learn how to be prepared before you start to negotiate
Contracts
- Learn the pitfalls of most contracts
- What to look for when signing contracts
- Learn who is financially responsible and insurance requirements
Timeline and Scenarios
- Learn the value of timelines and good planning
- Importance of a planned scenario and its content
- Learn how to develop an alternative game plan
- Where to find the best support
It’s All About You
- Knowing what to do
- Showing confidence and leadership
- How you present yourself
- Decorum and Demeanor
- Others look to you to lead
Post Pandemic Compliance Protocols
- What to expect in the post Pandemic period
- Pandemic Compliance Advisor (PCA) and a Covid Compliance Officer (CCO)
Bring It All Together
- the Detailed | Working Logistic Program – your Event Bible
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Anyone with occasional or frequent responsibility for planning events in their organization will benefit from this training.
The advantages of team sessions
- Learn and grow together as a team
- Location and time of your choice
- Sessions can be customized to fit your objectives
- Surprisingly cost effective
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