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#2 - How to organise a successful event
This is the second blog post in the #Staffnetworkseries which aims to assist anyone currently running or interested in running a staff network as well as workplaces that are considering launching them.
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Organising a successful event is not easy. There are many contributing factors, for instance having a great team, room availability, catering, speakers, the list goes on! And this is all before knowing whether people will walk through the door or not. Check out our thoughts on how to organise a successful event below.
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Staff engagement, senior stakeholder engagement, customer/client engagement, external/internal PR are all good measures of a successful event.
It is important to know your goal for each event. There should be a business benefit to why you are running the event, for instance: education, inspiration or engaging your stakeholders.
As an example, when I was working in Aon and partnering with a professional services firm — we were clients of each other and going through some difficulties in the US. However, hosting this joint event bought senior stakeholders together on a panel and this led to solving some of the wider business difficulties.
