How To Successfully Organize and Manage an Event During Crisis?

Event management is relatively new, but its roots go back to early centuries when people managed functions in the kingdom for the kings or organized processions. Today however, event management today is a far more complex thing to work on. It requires networking and executing tasks on time. It requires tenacity and sometimes even brevity in your communication.

Well at a more experienced level- events like rock shows, film award functions, the Olympics, Sports matches are all events that must be managed well otherwise they become disasters. The difference between an earthquake and a badly managed event is that the earthquake is a natural disaster and the badly managed event is a man made one.

Event management companies will require good contacts with the government because many a times event management companies require government permission and may have to work with government officials for the same. Even a political rally can be badly managed if the crowd goes berserk or if the mike is not working or if there are other technical glitches .Thus, event management is best tested by the crisis that is posed.

Raising sponsors and being in talks with your event financier is essential for every event management professional. Therefore, it is a function which needs to be paid attention.

Execution of the plans must be done at the right time. A music concert or an awards function can go berserk if there are major technical issues or if sponsorship has not been worked out much before the concert is to begun. It can further add to the woes of the event management company from the audiences when the Singers or Actors fail to arrive on time. This adds to the major crisis or a showdown. Therefore, Event management companies must not only take it up as a creative activity but one with an entrepreneurial spirit and with some professionalism. Even a minor glitch adds to the woes of the company. Even a wardrobe malfunction can become much talked about, though it is the job of the stylist to take care of these things it does badly reflect on the event management company or those directly involved in the event. 

Many a times these mistakes end up going on record therefore event management must always strategize .They must review and develop their plans. A contingency model works best, therefore it is necessary that your organization executes all plans on time because your plans when executed on time will sync well. A contingency approach leads to a more stable model and normalize all operations.

Adapt to technology: Technology plays a major role in event management. Social networking platforms, Mobile technologies and latest broadcasting technology will play a very important role in the event business.

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Blink Experience is one of the leading events management agency in the GCC Opened in 2003 in Dubai, specialised in Producing and Managing memorable corporate and public events.