Event Management Warnborough College

Overview

Key facts

On successful completion of the Event Management course from Warnborough College you should be able to do the following:

• Identify the various tasks which are involved in the management of a variety of different types of events.

• Explain how a range of different types of events are initiated and planned.

• Determine the human and physical resources required to deliver different types of events.

• Determine how physical and human resources will be organised in preparation for staging an event, in order that needs are appropriately catered for.

• Develop a marketing plan for an event.

• Develop a Financial Management Plan for an Event.

• Develop a series of Risk management procedures to minimize the impact of different types of problems including financial, legal, marketing, crowd control, food services, and hygiene.

• Describe the way in which facilities and services are managed during the actual delivery of an event.

• Review an event after its delivery.

Here are just some of the things you will be doing:

• Research to find out what events are taking place in your locality.

• Study and compare different events.

• Review marketing of various real life events.

• List sources of potential financial support for an event.

• Interview someone who has managed an event.

• Explain the different legal and ethical responsibilities with respect to risk management of an event.

• Explain two methods of reducing liability, which could be used by the organisers of any event.

• Compile a stage plan, contact responsibility list, & production scheduler, with relevant run sheets for a one day seminar.

• Write a procedure (step by step) for choosing a venue for staging an event.

• List reasons why an evaluation would be undertaken after an event.

• Prepare a report to evaluate the event you attended.