Course overview
Whether it is a national conference, a training workshop, a public meeting, or a local fundraiser, events are the public face of your organisation.
This one-day introduction to event management course offers a practical guide, and you will leave with a toolkit that will help you organise future activities with confidence and flair.
What you'll learn
During our Event management: an introduction course you will gain an understanding of how to organise an event and have a comprehensive toolkit to use in the future. As well as learning about the power of events in promoting your organisation and the chance to consider how to make each session excellent.
Our hands-on Event management: an introduction training will help give you the confidence and practical skills needed in event management and show you how to deal with problems. You will leave with an enthusiasm for excellence.
Study method
- In-class
- Online
- Blended
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Duration study load
- 1 day
Pathways
- Event management: intermediate
Who's it for?
This introduction to event management course is aimed at those with little or no existing experience in organising and managing events.
The centre works with people from all sectors including the public sector, voluntary sector, corporate sector and private sector.
We also offer bespoke group training for 3-12 individuals from one organisation. If you would like to explore this option, please get in touch for a quote.
Subjects
This Event management training course looks at the power of events to build your organisation and promote its aims. You will explore the planning process, going step by step through the different elements, along the way creating an effective timeline.
You will look at how to get people to attend the event and how to manage the delegate process. You will look at finding the best venues, facilities, catering and treats. You will also learn how to evaluate your event, so that each time you are able to build on your success.
- why are you holding the event?
- what type of event?
- SMARTIE objectives
- planning schedule
- timeline – countdown to success
- budgeting
- choosing venues and facilities
- event team
- speakers and chairperson briefing
- health and safety, risk assessment and insurance
- identifying your audiences?
- pre-event publicity
- making the most of the Internet – websites, social networking and email
- gaining press coverage
- presenters and delegates – ensuring you reach all parts of the community
- accessible events – best practice
- booking/registration checklist
- room layouts
- facilities, venues and equipment
- catering and refreshment checklist
- what to do when things go wrong
- how to add energy to sessions
About Itec Skills and Employment
Itec has been a leading provider of work-based learning programmes for 40 years. As part of the ongoing strategy to place our people at the centre of the business and preserve the company as an independent organisation, Itec Training Solutions Holdings Limited became an employee-owned company in February 2019. We are proud to be the first Welsh independent training provider to become employee-owned, with 100% of the business now owned by our employee-owners.
We are one of the largest and most vocationally diverse work-based learning providers. In Wales holding Welsh Government contracts to deliver Apprenticeships and Jobs Growth Wales Plus (JGW+). In England we hold ESFA contracts to deliver Apprenticeships.
In 2014, we acquired The Centre for Strategy and Communication to support the strategic goal to diversify the business, offering commercial training to individuals and employers throughout the UK and worldwide. In 2021 we merged our Company’s (Itec Training Solutions Limited and Centre for Strategy and Communication), this merger was to enable the business to align and strengthen our brand.
Every day we transform people’s lives by helping them believe in themselves, become more motivated, helping them find employment, progress their careers, acquire new qualifications and skills, or set up in business. We support high-growth organisations to innovate and grow. Helping organisations in the private, public, and charity sectors to support priority and high-growth sectors to achieve their outcomes.
Our ethos is simple. We help individuals start and progress their careers by matching their skills with those of local employers. We ensure our programmes are meaningful, effective, valued, and sustainable to both individuals and employers.
