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Conference Organizers: What Is Your Duty of Care?

Velvet Chainsaw

As you develop your plan, consider these four difficult questions and how to incorporate your responses in your risk-management planning: Will our preventive measures align with health authority guidelines or will we invest in extra precautions? In risk management, shifting liability to another party is a common practice.

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Master Event Planning with a Workback Schedule Template

Attendease

Time management A workback schedule helps you allocate the right amount of time for each task. Venue contracts take weeks to finalize? Risk management Spot potential issues weeks or months before they impact your event. Marketing emails need multiple rounds of review? Your schedule accounts for that.

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Risk Management: Addressing Meeting Emergencies When the Industry Resumes

SmartMeetings

Why should meeting professionals address risk? When it comes to risk management , there are two questions Coffey likes to pose to meetings planners: If an emergency were to occur during one of your meetings, do you think your client would expect you to know what to do or at least have an organized course of basic action?

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Risk Management: Events are Risky Business 

SmartMeetings

Weighted risk tracking helps manage real contingency requirements We all plan events months in advance, years in advance, or maybe even, days in advance. Because of that not only do our risk management plans need to be well-thought out but so do our finances to cover those risks. Turns out there is.

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The Importance of Risk Management in Events Planning

Eventinterface

This is why risk management is crucial for event planners. CRAFTING A PLAN Risk planning sessions should always occur in the early stages of planning, with new ideas and insights added as the event draws near. THE RISK FACTORS TO CONSIDER Risk management involves a lot of aspects.

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2024 Contracts Playbook

SmartMeetings

What to watch For Contracts don’t sound exciting. But if you look at them another way, event contracts are a dynamic landscape that can either serve as a solid foundation for your event, or a swampy marsh full of lurking danger! The post 2024 Contracts Playbook appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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The Importance of Risk Management in Events Planning

Eventinterface

This is why risk management is crucial for event planners. CRAFTING A PLAN Risk planning sessions should always occur in the early stages of planning, with new ideas and insights added as the event draws near. THE RISK FACTORS TO CONSIDER Risk management involves a lot of aspects.