Cohort for the 7-week intensive event management training
About
Destination Southern New South Wales (DSNSW) wanted to support the region’s event committees to learn event management skills and improve their processes.
7-week event management training
Event organisers from the DSNSW region joined event organisers from across Australia in a 7-week event management course. They chose whether to join the May-July cohort, or the September-October cohort of the 7-week intensive.
14 event organisers and Council staff participated - 6 in Session 1 and 7 in Session 2, joining for a variety of reasons:
“We want to create more events. I would like to be able to manage these better.”
“We want to build our competence and documentation to ensure our event is sustainable into the future and will grow.”
“The move to a new venue will significantly increase attendee numbers, infrastructure needs and logistics, which will bring challenges and opportunities that will require specialised knowledge and experience to deliver the event successfully now and, in the years, to come.”
“It would be great to network with likeminded event organisers throughout the region.”
“To help grow our event.”
“I have delivered many events because I enjoy it. I have never had formal training and would love to learn formally to sharpen my skills.”
DSNSW received a 10% group discount on the registration fees.
Outcomes
After the training rEVENTS Academy conducted a phone follow up and survey to gather feedback from the participants.
“A lot has come out of this – we are all impressed with it; we’re loving it. It’s bringing us together.
I’m glad I’ve had this opportunity. We’ve got a lot out of it.”
“The course was such a fantastic and comprehensive insight into managing and event from start to finish.
The checklists, content and toolkits were an invaluable asset to the course.
Having 24-hour and future access to the course content is like event management gold.”
“The program was such a joy to participate in. It is logical, practical and real and gave me a great grounding for planning, promoting and running any sort of event as well as providing a great set of tools and resources I can use for my current event and all events in the future. ”
“Being new to events, I always felt out of my depth when it came to preplanning events.
Linda’s clear and precise methods, training and templates make it not so scary to take the plunge and create awesome events.
Linda has developed a training program that simply makes sense! ”