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Master Event Planning with a Workback Schedule Template

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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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Preparation is the Key to Risk Management

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Risk management is a dedicated preparedness rather than simply a mental exercise, according to Lisa Sommer Devlin, the most recent Smart Meetings webinar host. In her talk, “Risk Management 101,” she outlined strategies for dealing with the risks of the industry, as well as how to actively avoid them. Legal Risks.

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The Importance of Risk Management in Events Planning

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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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Risk Management: Events are Risky Business 

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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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2024 Contracts Playbook

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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

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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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Scott Graf on Managing a Changing Geopolitical Events Landscape

Smart Meetings

Other than running out of coffee, trying to sign contracts years out and arranging travel in a world where costs are the only thing rising faster than attrition rates is the definition of “stressful.” What do meeting professionals hate more than uncertainty? That is a trick question.