Event Management for Beginners OfCourse
Price: AED 110
AED 217
  • Duration: Flexible

Course details

Includes 40 lectures and over 1.5 hours of online, on-demand video content
  • Understand the importance of customer satisfaction, how to achieve it, and why it must come before profit sometimes
  • Learn the entire event management process and be quizzed on your knowledge on completion of the course.
  • Study in detail the difference between different size events and how planning differs
  • Perfect for anyone interested in getting into event management, or with a large-scale event to plan such as a wedding or party.

This course will take you through the event management process, with detailed insight into how to plan and carry out the organisation of an event. With individual lessons containing tips on how, where and when to hold a particular event, you will finish this course as an expert on the topic and with new found confidence on how to talk with clarity and authority on the art of event management.

Your course instructor Lisa Price holds a degree in Tourism Management & a Masters in Event Management. As a member of the Venue Management School, Lisa is an accredited venue manager and a certified facilities executive. She has worked in the industry for over two decades, contributing to such organisations as the Melbourne Cricket Ground and numerous other high-profile and prestigious sporting events.

This course is ideal for aspiring event managers who want to gain an insight into the industry and what the job entails. It is also a great course for existing event managers who want to either brush up their knowledge or learn how improve on a particular area of event management.

Introduction
  • Introduction to this course
  • Say hi to your fellow students and tell them why you're taking this course!
  • Share this course with your family and friends!
Why Run an Event
  • Vision
  • Handout - Creating a vision
  • Concept
  • Goals
  • Innovation
  • Pitching
  • Feasibility
What: Solid Planning
  • Event scope and budget
  • Customers
  • Handout - Great people
  • Marketing plan and pricing
  • Communications plan
  • Project management approach
  • Stakeholders
When: Timing
  • Timings for your event
Where: Venue
  • Choosing your venue
  • Handout - Venue suitability checklist
  • Spaces within a venue
  • Accessibility and community impacts
How: Event Plan
  • Event plan
  • Handout - Seating arrangements
  • Planning environment
  • Handout - Planning environment
  • Safety
  • Risk Management
  • Handout - Risk assessment
  • Emergency management
  • Checklists
  • Stakeholder management
  • Communications
  • On the day
  • Handout - Run sheet
Who: Managing Human Resources
  • Dot planning
  • Handout - Dot planning
  • Recruitment
  • Event suppliers
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Customers and stakeholders
How Well: Keeping on top of things
  • Real time monitoring
  • Contingency plan
  • Measuring success and process review
  • Continual improvement and knowledge transfer
All About You
  • Characteristics of great event managers
  • Organisation
  • Being successful
  • Your wellbeing
Conclusion
  • The last word
End of Course Assessment
  • Quiz - Course assessment
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  • What will you learn next?
Updated on 14 October, 2018

About OfCourse

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