Wednesday Buzz: Don’t Be Overwhelmed by Event Planning Overload

As you get ready for your association’s big annual convention and other major meetings, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. But event planner Kelli White  (opens in a new tab) offers reassurance that you don’t have to shoulder all the responsibility for making your events successful. In a guest post for Event Manager Blog  (opens in a new tab), White underscores the importance of sharing the workload.

“Event-planning professionals have an endless list of tasks that need to be accomplished on any given day, and the trouble for most of us is that we want to do it all,” she writes. “Delegation is a challenge for almost everyone with a planner mentality. We tend to have trouble letting go because we all enjoy being in control.”

But by letting go, you aid your team as well as yourself.

“Employees and volunteers in the event-planning industry love to feel important and responsible for the success of the event,” White points out. “When you delegate, you are not only lessening your workload, but also providing valuable experience and opportunities for your staff.”

Click here to see  (opens in a new tab) all six of her tips for managing your event-planning workload.

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Cloud-based phone system provider RingCentral presents the results of a recent survey showing what business managers think about the current state of communication, device management, Skype, and more. Head over to CMSWire for an interview with Kira Makagon, RingCentral’s executive vice president of innovation  (opens in a new tab).

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Thank you, community managers! January 26 is Community Manager Appreciation Day  (opens in a new tab), and community-platform provider Higher Logic  (opens in a new tab) and the Community Roundtable  (opens in a new tab) are hosting two events in Washington, DC. SocialFish has the details  (opens in a new tab).

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