With a distributed team of content managers, you have to learn how THEY best work. For most of them, a simple "checklist" with dates, the stakeholder, and the due date.
Make this simple sheet, go over it on EVERY MEETING. And pad 2 weeks into every "deadline." Because people get behind.
The coolest hack I have is an excel sheet that takes a SESSION EXPORT and puts it into a BLOCK AGENDA so people can visualize the event.
Left vertical column is start times - in TEXT. Top horizontal column is "room name." Give even your Virtual events "virtual room names." This way you can visualize the intersection of the start time and what is happening in each "room" at that time.
The way it works is a concatenation of the time + the room name, and the search looking for that match puts the Session Name into the block, in the right column and at the right time.
It isn't 100% accurate if you have overlapping sessions where the Start Times are different. But you can get a good look at what is happening overall.
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Brenda Ainsburg
Channel Program Manager
brenda.ainsburg@siemens.comSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
United States
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-01-2021 11:04
From: Danielle Czark
Subject: What are your favorite productivity hacks when managing event programs?
Hi there! Welcome back to a new month and our next Huddle of the Week discussion.
Can you believe it is March again? March 2020 feels like forever ago and yesterday at the same time. Speaking of time, we know you all are extremely busy, and therefore time management and efficiency is very important to you and your teams. Whether enhanced while working in this virtual environment, or something you picked up a while back, we'd love to learn how you keep up your productivity while managing your event programs.
- What are some of your favorite "productivity hacks" when managing event programs? (This can mean anything – building events and managing the technology, onsite at an in-person event, executing a virtual event, or supporting events at your property for our suppliers)
- Has anything changed while remote/supporting virtual events that you feel you will continue with in-person events?
As always, let us know your thoughts, ideas, and questions below. #HuddleoftheWeek #VoiceIt
#Miscellaneous
#ManagingVirtualEvents
#ExecutingStrategicMeetingsManagement
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Danni Czark
Senior Associate, Online Community Marketing
Cvent
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