Intelligent Event Planning

Organizing an event is not always automatic.  The right is usually much bumpier than it is smooth.  Following is easier than leading and planning an event takes lots of leadership.  Here are just a few easy-to-follow steps that can help make planning your next event a little easier.

Easy Steps for Planning Your Event

1.    Start early; as soon as you have an idea of the event it is time to start coordinating.
2.    Create a budget; know how much you are going to spend before you spent a dime.
3.    Spend some time generating ideas; think creatively about possible favors, locations, themes and other concepts.
4.    Make to do list; use the list of possibilities to come up with a good plan for your event.  Make a to-do list of all the things that will have to be completed for the event to be ruled as a success.
5.    Use the list to make a schedule; when are you going to accomplish each event and how will it get finished.
6.    Delegate smartly; organize friends, family and other volunteers to help get it all accomplished in time.
7.    Create a time line; get a NEW calendar and write the date of the event down.  Work backwards from the date of the event and write down when each task on the to-do list will be finished. 
8.    Post the calendar; keep it out in the open but move it around.  Leaving it in a single location will mean that your brain will eventually stop seeing it.

Organization is the most important factor to great event planning no matter what kind of event it might be or where it might be located.  The more time that you spend writing out the steps to the even then the easier the path will be to actually organizing the event.