Book description
Event planning never stops. This industry goes 24/7, 365 days a year.
Planners work evenings, weekends, and holidays, often far away from
their home base, organizing and running events that simply must go on,
and go smoothly. Missing a critical deadline is not an option in the
event planning field. Time management errors can cost a company a
potential sale, lose them an existing customer, and damage their
professional reputation.
Burnout and chaos are real risks in this hectic world of deadlines
and multiple projects. Planners often find themselves working down to
the wire against crushing deadlines and a mountain of obstacles that
impede their progress. Too frequently, there is not enough time to get
the job done properly, let alone to spend on personal or professional
pursuits. And for many involved in the event planning field, there is
the extra dimension of travel to factor in, juggling multiple projects
on a daily basis across a multitude of time zones.
For smooth event implementation, and for business success, it is
essential that planners know how to manage their own time as well as
they manage an event. Time Management for Event Planners
teaches readers how to successfully manage their workload, and do what
matters most, when it matters most:
- Analyze and prioritize tasks.
- Structure your workload and your day for maximum performance.
- Identify red-flag activities that hinder productivity.
- Reduce stress-producing time crunches.
- Identify when extra help is needed, as well as how to delegate,
outsource, and even partner with suppliers in crunch periods.
- Work with rather than against deadlines.
- Save time using technology.
- Manage multiple projects, even in multiple time zones.
- Balance your personal and professional life.
Whether
you are an event planner, a hospitality professional, in public
relations or other related fields,
Time Management for Event
Planners offers time-saving tips, techniques, examples, and expert
insight that will help you get time on your side.
Judy Allen is one of the world's leading
authorities on staging, event and lifestyle design and the bestselling
author of ten books for the professional, business and consumer
markets. Allen, a master of creative design, has flawlessly executed
successful special events-corporate, social, and celebrity-for up to
2,000 guests at a time in more than 30 countries around the world. She
has designed and produced memorable events such as Disney's worldwide
theatrical opening-night gala for
Beauty and the Beast, and the
orchestration of Oscar-winning director Norman Jewison's 25th
anniversary celebration for
Fiddler on the Roof.
Highly
skilled in staging events that are strategically designed to be
one-of-kind experiences and a master of transforming the energy of an
event environment by engaging the senses with trademark primary design
principles, Allen has worked closely with CEOs, CFOs, presidents and
their executive staff around the globe to create, implement and
oversee their corporate and social business events.
The many
diverse events that Allen has designed and executed extend from
complex one-day events to elaborate arrangements of theme productions
taking place over the course of a week. These events ranged from very
exclusive VIP events to multimillion-dollar, multimedia fantasy
extravaganzas including seven new-car product launches and involved
high-tech stage and show productions.
Allen, and her
2jproductions (
www.
2jproductions. com) partner, Joe Shane, are now bringing their
dynamic creative energy, innovative style and perceptive insight to
home, life and lifestyle design and world class resorts around the
world through Sensual Home Living
TM (
www. sensualhomeliving.
com) and other initiatives.
