Events Management - what you need to succeed time after time

If you get an event wrong the implications for your business could be terrible. You could find yourselves on the receiving end of some bad publicity – see http://bit.ly/1oXs3KT.

Customers (internal and external) expect high quality events but how do you ensure that your event is a great success and that you have achieved everything required? How do you ensure that it is within budget and the right people attend? These and many more questions will be answered on this exciting and stimulating course by:

• Using tried and tested approaches to deliver effective events
  
  
• Providing tools and techniques that you can use in planning your event over and over again
  
  
• Focus on the key qualities needed to ensure you deliver effectively.

• Use practical events planning and management process to deliver effective events
  
  
• Overcome and plan to avoid some of the pitfalls
  
  
• Use positive communication approaches to ensuring your event is positively marketed
  
  
• Recognise the key qualities needed to ensure you deliver effective events
  
  
• Using a framework for delivering your event successfully
  
  
• Ensuring the event is worthwhile
  
  
• Defining what you are delivering – scoping the event out
  
  
• Identifying event roles and assigning responsibilities
  
  
• Stakeholder analysis and management
  
  
• Producing measurable success criteria for your event
  
  
• Identifying and managing risks
  
  
• Understanding the tensions in delivering events
  
  
• Using a robust planning approach in the delivery of your events:

• Developing a work breakdown structure
• Ensuring predecessor or dependency relationships are clearly identified
• Producing and using various charts including milestone reporting charts
• Developing realistic estimates – time and cost
• Using network charts

• Communications planning
  
  
• Agreeing a robust event review and control system
  
  
• Dealing with changes
  
  
• Event closure and review
  
  
• Learning from one event and using this learning on other events you are planning and communicating this to others in the business

Mr Ron Rosenhead

Mr Ron Rosenhead is a Senior Consultant specialising in Project Management which includes, identifying project management needs, delivering projects effectively, project sponsorship, and a very wide range of training and development approaches that will aid the prospective project manager.

Ron holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management from Middlesex business School and a degree from Sheffield Hallam University (Public Administration with Industrial Psychology. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Professional Speaking Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Ron has worked throughout the UK working with a wide range of project management professionals. He has personally trained over 10,000 people on various project management courses.

He started his career in sales and moved in to research before establishing himself as a Trainer and Consultant. He has worked extensively with professionals across all companies and this includes the design and delivery of changes management programmes as well as management development programmes for groups of prospective leaders.

He moved into project management quite by chance some 20 years ago and has not looked back since. His interest is in ensuring that companies have the right capacity (numbers) and right capability (skills) in place to deliver the real changes they inevitably will need to move their company agenda forward

His experience covers most industrial sectors and has consulted throughout the UK as well as parts of Europe.

Besides undertaking training, Ron also, writes and designs learning materials, writes a regular blog and is an author of eLearning training materials. In addition, he has written books on project management and spoken at conferences – all on project management topics.