The document discusses the key challenges that event leaders face - time management, finances, technology, and human resources. It provides suggestions for effectively managing time, such as prioritizing tasks, delegating work, and using calendars. Tips for financial success include setting goals, seeking advice, using technology efficiently, and controlling costs. The text also outlines steps for acquiring and maintaining the right technology, as well as emphasizing the importance of empowering employees in human resources.

1. Events
Management

2. Event Leadership as a Career
• Like any career, there are numerous
challenges that an Event Leader must
face.
• The 4 primary challenges that professional
Event Leaders encounter are time,
finance, technology and human resources.

4. Mastering Time Management
• The ability to use your time effectively by
distinguishing what is urgent and what is
important
• Effective time management must begin
with setting personal and professional
priorities.

5. Mastering Time Management
• One must find a healthy balance among
the worlds of work, family, leisure,
recreation and spiritual pursuits for your
long-term success.

6. 10 Suggestions for Event Time
Management
1. Budget your time and relate this budget
directly to your financial and personal
priorities.
2. Determine, by an analysis of your
overhead, what your time is worth hourly.

7. 10 Suggestions for Event Time
Management
3. Make a list of tasks to complete the next
day before you leave the office or go to
bed.
4. Determine whether meetings are
essential and the best way to
communicate information.

8. 10 Suggestions for Event Time
Management
5. When receiving telephone calls,
determine if you are the most appropriate
person to respond to the caller.
6. Upon opening mail or reading faxes,
handle each item only once.

9. 10 Suggestions for Event Time
Management
7. When travelling for more than 3 business
days, have your mail sent to you through
an overnight service.
8. Prepare a written agenda for every
meeting, no matter how brief.

10. 10 Suggestions for Event Time
Management
9. Establish a comprehensive calendar of
activities that includes the contact name,
address, and telephone number of people
with whom you are meeting.
10. Delegate non-essential tasks to capable
assistants.

11. Mastering Finance
• During your career, you will be required to
read and interpret spreadsheets filled with
financial data.
• You must be able to understand their
interpretations of these data and then
make judgments based on your financial
analysis.

12. 5 Techniques for Financial
Success
1. Set realistic, short-, mid-, and long term
financial goals.
2. Seek professional counsel.
3. Identify and use efficient financial
technology.
4. Review you financial health frequently and
systematically.
5. Control overhead and build wealth.

13. Mastering Technology
• New advances in technology are rapidly
transforming the way Event Leaders
conduct business.

14. 5 Steps to Acquire and Maintain
the Right Technology
1. Identify the technology needs within your
organization.
2. Review and select appropriate technology.
3. Establish a schedule for implementation.
4. Provide adequate training for all personnel.
5. Review needs systematically and adapt new
technology

15. Mastering Human Resource
• Empowering people is one of the most
important HR skills one must master.
• One must hire the right people and
empower them to make a range of
important decisions.