Corporate Event Planning Guide: Where To Start
When you start planning the corporate event, it can be very daunting. Where the start, why should you first, what considerations you need to take into account and other such questions can soon arise.
The first thing to do when planning your corporate event is to work out what items are essential for the success of your event.
This is going to be different for everyone, but there is some commonalities between these different corporate events.
You will need to find a venue that is suitable for your event’s needs, but try to find a venue that can supply some more of the criteria that you require. If you require catering look for venues that already offer a catering service as part of a package. These types of packages often come with extra incentives such as free cocktail receptions, which is excellent if you are planning to spend money on a cocktail reception anyway.
It’s about shopping around to try and find the most complete package that suits as many criteria as possible while remaining on budget.
However, the danger with packages can be that companies over inflate the price of the packages in order to take advantage of the convenience that they will provide the vast majority of the services which will save you time and hassle.
One of the most overlooked areas of corporate event planning
One of the areas that needs to be looked at after the venue, catering, etc. is that of guest entertainment.
Or put it a better way, stopping your guests from being bored.
The days of keeping people entertained with cheese and wine as a cocktail reception are long gone. People now expect to arrive at a venue have some canapés and a little drink, that’s what they expect as standard.
You need to think about the potential areas during your event where people have the potential to be bored. Again, it’s difficult to give the definitive guide due to the different nature of each corporate event, but there are some general areas where attendees may become bored.
Some guest will arrive early and be waiting around with nothing much to do.
If you are serving food at your corporate event, between courses can be sticking point.
Immediately after food there is often a period of time for people to digester food before presentations begin, and this to can be a moment requiring entertainment.
Entertainment can come in many forms such as caricaturists, magicians, comedians, themed actors, etc.
if you’re looking for something a little more special than you can even hire Brook on this website, who provides his specialist style of entertainment known as ‘Mind Play’.
Whatever entertainment you decide to hire, don’t leave it until the end of your event planning to allocate budget to this very important area.