Event leaders face four primary challenges - time management, finances, technology, and human resources. Effective time management requires setting priorities, distinguishing urgent vs important tasks, and finding a balance between work and personal life. Financial management involves setting goals, seeking advice, using technology efficiently, regularly reviewing finances, and controlling overhead. As technology advances rapidly, event leaders must identify organizational needs, select and implement appropriate technologies, and provide training while adapting to new technologies. Finally, mastering human resources requires hiring the right people and empowering them to make important decisions.

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.