Bad traits of event planners
Everyone having good habits and bad habits. Hold on you good habits. And let bad habits go from your nature. Bad habits have lot of risk involvement when you deal with professional life. Event planning is very complex thing and we take lot of shortcuts. In fast phase environment, everything is changing in a minute so be careful while taking shortcuts as they can be risky as well.
Bad habits of event planner results in flop of event. Few bad habits that event manager should avoid are as below:
Carrying heavy paper files: Event manager means keeping and tracking record of all deals, people and employees. Carrying weighty and massive paper files with him at work place won’t be a sound idea. Avoid heavy files and go for smart choice called tablet. It can help you planning stages of event, calendar, and team work. Free yourself from paper bundles and utilize tablet.
Checking In Guests on paper: Consider you are planning a mega event and searching and checking guests on long printout paper. And you have lost some paper record and shouting on your employees and creating a battlefield at event. Drop this idea and use electronic check in on your events and keep record. Use cameras for face recognition.
Runners to call speakers of conference: Again a collapse plan. You are asking for a runner to chase a speaker guest to come on stage and talk. Use mic and call guest by the help of mic. Use mic runner for the people in hall who want to ask questions from speaker guests. This will help the speaker to avoid the awkward situation of bad question.
Continual Emails to team members: Collaboration and cooperation between team members is necessary for event success. And to assign any task you can send countless mails to members. 30 to 50 emails with CC copies to all people. It’s very silly idea as it takes a lot of time and you are use wrong management tool. Now a day a tool Base Camp is usually used to communicate with team members and create synchronization in the team members.
Decide guest speaker: If you are organizing a conference then you must know the history of guest’s speakers. Analyze their profiles, and check videos how they deliver presentations. How much likes and dislikes they have. Check out their actual value before calling.
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Bad traits of event planners
Event assessment tools: Create a dashboard to analyze the value and quality of event. Lot of investment is done on running the event and we make lot of reports for the analysis. At the end day no one likes to read big handout. Just to impress our bosses we use expansive tools. Better to create a cool social media dashboard.
In the end we have to adopt these polices to prevent event from any harm. Get rid of all bad habits. Don’t use shortcuts. Think critically and positively. Right and wrong decision will evaluate the success and failure of your event.
