Time Management for Event Planners : Expert Techniques and Time-Saving Tips for Organizing Your Workload, Prioritizing Your Day, and Taking Control of Your Schedule / Judy Allen.

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ISBN:

9780470158227

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Author:

Allen, Judy, author.

Personal Author:

Allen, Judy, author.

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages)

Contents:

Chapter 1: Taking Stock -- Reaching a Defining Moment -- Identifying What You Really Do Day to Day -- Analyzing What You Need to Do to Get the Job Done Effectively -- Defining What's Essential for Performance and Advancement -- Uncovering Hidden Job Requirements -- Chapter 2: Charting Your Priorities -- Developing Time Sensitivity -- Identifying Potential Time Crunches in Advance -- Freeing Up More Time -- Maneuvering More Minutes into Your Day -- Bringing Order-Through Reorder -- Creating a Sample Time Management Reorder Grid -- Chapter 3: Designing a Daily Action Plan -- Structuring Your Workload to Efficiently Meet Your Objectives -- Organizing Your Day for Maximum Effect -- Becoming Critical About How You Spend Your Time and Energy -- Taking Control-Clearing the Clutter -- Getting to It and Through It-Due, to Do, Done -- Chapter 4: Integrating Time Management Tactics Into Your Day -- Setting Personal and Professional Goals -- Meeting Your Objectives and Deadlines -- Preparing for the Unknowns and Unexpecteds -- Minimizing Distractions When in the Office -- Minimizing Distractions When Out of the Office -- Chapter 5: Implementing Time-Saving Systems and Procedures -- Gaining Value by Outlining Expectations -- Establishing Company Codes of Conduct in Key Areas -- Setting Time-Saving Codes of Conduct -- Creating an Action Plan for Emergency Situations -- Saving Time Through Technology -- Deciding When to Delegate or Outsource Expertise -- Chapter 6: Working Around the World on Multiple Projects in Multiple Time Zones -- Juggling Multiple Files, Tasks, Responsibilities and Players -- Learning to Time Shift -- Chapter 7: Getting Time on Your Side -- Riding the Wave of Work Expectations -- Building in Time Buffers -- Identifying Time Triggers -- Performing Time Edits.

Creating Your Daily Action Plan -- Chapter 8: Saving Time When Out of the Office and On-Site -- Preparing in Advance -- Taking the Trip -- Getting Back to Business -- Chapter 9: Making Time for Professional Pursuits -- Taking Advantage of On-the-Job Opportunities -- Investing in Professional Development -- Finding Educational Value in Attending Incentive and Premium Trade Shows -- Chapter 10: Balancing Your Personal and Professional Life -- Defining Your Objectives -- Protecting Your Division Between Personal and Professional Time -- Making Use of Transition Time -- Finding Balance Without Compromising -- Scheduling Your Personal Life in Your Agenda -- Conclusion.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

Special events industry.

Time management.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2009

Publication Information:

New York :

John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,

2009.

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Summary

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.

Author Notes

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 LivingTM ( www.sensualhomeliving.com ) and other initiatives.