Event Management - Two Day Workshop
The two day Event Management course This two-day course covers conceptualising and developing events, event management charter, event management scope, developing a brief for service providers etc.
If you are in the PR, events organising, communications industry or would like to learn more about these industries, then this course is for you. The facilitator, Dr Dennis Laxton, is a leading consultant in the project management, operations, Fasset accounting / Finance, and event management fields.
Dr Dennis Laxton is a leading consultant in the project management, operations and event management fields and has been involved with Many Business School as a senior lecturer on the MBA programme and consultant for many years.
Dr Dennis Laxton has studied the following:
Doctor of Business Administration – DBA 2003 (University of Natal)
Master of Business Leadership – MBL 2002 (University of SA)
Master of Business Administration – MBA 2000 (Charles Sturt Univ – Aus)
Master of Business Administration – MBA 1995 (Newport University – USA)
Certified Project Manager (Brainbench – USA)
Marketing Management Diploma (IMM)
Retail Management Certificate (IMM)
Btech and Higher National Diploma in Industrial Engineering (UJ and Unisa)
Some of his previous clients:
Siemens; Denel; Std Bank; Nedebank, Emperors palace; Anglo American: Grinaker LTA; Alexander Forbes; De Beers; Rand Water; CSIR; Sun International; Coca Cola Edgars; Spoornet; Transnet; Makro; Barlows; Unitrans; Development Bank of SA; ABSA; SAB; SA Government;
Cost per delegate for the two day course is: R2500 Excluding vat
Cost per two day course for a group in-house (up to 10 Delegates): R21000 Excluding VAT for the two days
Target audience:
Event and conference organisers
Organisers of staff incentive programmes
Students in the event management and PR fields
In-house training co-ordinators
Professional event administrators, co-ordinators and managers
Marketing assistants
Anyone involved in conceptualising, preparing, costing, designing and implementing events
Workshop programme
Course outline:
Session one (One Day)
• Conceptualise and develop events
• Event management charter
• Event management scope
• Developing a brief for service providers
• Developing a task list
• Project management
• Questions and answers
• Practical exercise
Session two (One Day)
• Producing budgets
• Working with service providers
• Logistics
• Tools for brainstorming
• Conference Planning
• Evaluation and reports
• Intro to PR and marketing for conferences, seminars and special events
• Questions and answers
• Practical exercise
The workshop includes:
The cost includes hardcopies of all presentations.
This workshop is also available as an in-house training package for a group of ten delegates or more.