This podcast/blog post is titled ” Collaboration Workbook for Successful Event Management” but the podcast could really relate to any project you are involved with. If it is event planning, meeting production or knitting quilts it will help you greatly.
As most of the readers and listeners of MeetingsPodcast know, we are a huge fans of the book: Linchpin (affiliate link) Seth Godin has come out with a new workbook to help you get rid of your lizard brain and resistance to accomplish a project. Being involved in event management or event planning, many of these types of roadblocks can be hit head on. The workbook is called SHIPIT (affiliate link) and I think it can help you successfully finish a project. Share it with your clients and get them thinking the same way!
At Grass Shack we have some crazy fun coming up. We are bringing on two new team members, a TEDX event, Event Camp in Chicago, a new streaming/video studio. And of course our wonderful client’s meetings and video projects. So we are going to implement these workbooks for each.
To close out the show we included an interview with Seth Godin on how to use the workbook. It is a great listen regardless if you have the book or not. Here is a direct link to that interview.
Do you see a place for this type of workbook added to your arsenal for event management? I have already implemented it for meeting production for a client we have been working with for 4 years.
What say you?
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- Seth Godin on How to Successfully Finish Projects (adesblog.com)
- Audio Interview: Seth Godin Discusses Linchpin & His Upcoming Road Trip (hubspot.com)
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Corporate meeting planning is not as difficult as many people want to make it out to be. As long as you are able to pay attention to details and follow up with various vendors you can turn your abilities into a nice career as a corporate meeting planner.
Thanks for the comment Event Planning- or is your name possesive.eyes?
Actually you are right, it is not hard to put on a meeting. But most companies do not have a team or even people who do this all the time to make it an effective meeting. . So adding this layer to an already busy corporate team, who is focused on what their company actually does should turn to an event professional like a meeting planner, a 3rd party meeting company or a production company. As Maartin Vaneneste talks about in his great book Meeting Architecture – many facets to putting on an engaging, educational and effective corporate meeting. Sure you can rent a ballroom, some AV, some food and drinks and you have a meeting. Having a learning strategy and driving the attendees to some sort of action is the key to an effective meeting.
Do you agree?
Mike