Event management: intermediate
This intermediate course for event managers and coordinators with event planning experience will give you the ‘how to’ skills of creating successful and crucially rewarding public or business events.
Course Dates and Location
- There are no dates available at the moment
Currently, this course is run on request meaning that a date will be scheduled once we have at least three people interested in attending this course.
We can deliver this course virtually for your organisation, on a date and time that suits you. If you have four or more people who would like to attend this course then In Company Training could be the most cost-effective option. Contact one of our Training Coordinators on 020 7490 3030 or contact us for more information and a quote.
Course Details
Course Outline
This one day course is a hands on, high content workshop designed to give you all the tools you need to run successful events – on time, on budget, every time. You will get clear, logical, easy to follow advice covering pre-event market research, event design, venue evaluation and selection, event programming, promotion and delivery. You will get a reference material, top tips, planning aids and access to our unique 8-stage event planning process. The aim of this course is to give you the skills and confidence to plan and direct your own high quality events.
The course will cover:
- The real world of event planning.
- 8 Point event expert planning process.
- Purpose: pre-event market research techniques, event feasibility, audience profiling.
- Presentation: Creating and designing an event that excites! Agreeing a look, style and format, setting event aims, idea generation and evaluation and writing event briefs.
- Event planning: The leg work, event project plans, budgeting and financial strategies, picking your event team, competent contractors, suppliers contracts, event planning meetings, what will you call your event.
- Place: setting venue criteria, searching and evaluating your venue, site visits, venue quotes, preparing event site plans.
- Programme: Designing an event programme that’s excites, creating your event programme, catering, encouraging audience engagement, setting event timings, searching and booking event activities.
- Promotion: event promotional plans, creating compelling copy, using a variety of promotional media, calls to action, event web sites.
- Production: Delivering your event, event operational plans, managing your event day teams and suppliers, event health and safety and risk assessments.
- People: It’s show time, leading your events teams, event evaluation and return.
- A year of free support.
All our training courses are delivered virtually. The webinar systems used do not require software download.
Who Is This Course For?
The Centre works with people from all sectors including the public sector, voluntary sector, corporate sector and private sector.
What Will This Course Help Me Do : Learning Outcomes?
– deliver your event set against the principals of the 8 step event planning process
– create and design events that excite an audience and which have a clear purpose, theme and structure
– project plan, budget, run your event planning teams and select competent contractors
– set a venue criteria, search, short list, contract and site plan your events venue
– design and deliver an event programme that’s created to deliver the money action: the change in behaviour you require
– create compelling event promotional copy using a variety of on and off line media and promotional plans designed to deliver people
– deliver your event using operational plans, while managing your suppliers, contractors, programme activities and event day teams
– be able to lead, motivate, brief and run your event day teams
…and produce successful and importantly rewarding events…on time every time
Course Fee
- £589 plus VAT not-for-profit price (applies to charities and all other not-for-profit organisations, including public sector and housing)
- £654 plus VAT standard price (applies to all other organisations)
