Category: Event Planning & Strategy

How to Staff a Corporate or Networking Event

Corporate event staffing means putting the right crew at the door and around the room. That crew covers registration staff, hosts, hospitality crew, and ...

workforce-planning-tools-for-staffing-agencies

Workforce planning tools for staffing agencies fall into three categories of software. Recruitment systems find candidates and place them with clients. Enterprise suites model ...

Shift Planning

Shift planning is the work of deciding how many crew a venue needs for each event. It sets which skills those shifts require, and ...

Large-Scale Event Management Structure

A large-scale event management structure is the defined system of leadership, teams, roles, and reporting lines that keeps a major event running as planned. ...

Workforce Planning Techniques for Major Events

Workforce planning techniques are the methods an event agency uses to forecast staffing demand, match roles to the right people, and secure cover before ...

Workforce Optimisation Strategies

For a growing event staffing agency, workforce optimisation means getting more from the workforce you already manage: higher fill rates, fewer no-shows, the right ...

How to Plan an Event

Planning an event means working through five phases in order. Define the event, sort the logistics, coordinate the team, run the day, then review. ...

event-sponsorship-ideas
Event sponsorship ideas and experiential marketing opportunties. I've put together ideas to help you get the most from event sponsorship. ...
Workforce-planning

Workforce planning for seasonal demand is what separates agencies that run smooth peak seasons from those that spend every summer or Christmas period firefighting. ...

How to Manage an Event Budget

An event budget rarely falls apart because of one large, obvious error. It breaks down into dozens of small costs that were never properly ...