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5 Essential Skills Every Event Planner Needs
Event planners have many skills that they lean on in order to plan amazing meetings and events. If you are new to the event planning space this episode will provide you with 5 basic essential skills that event planners can lean on when developing yourself as an event planner.
Episode Highlights
- Customer service is an essential skill that allows you to service your client effectively.
- With customer service, it's important to be pleasant and easy to work with. This will bring customers back to you again and again.
- Put yourself in a position where you can level up your customer service skill set by solving customers' requests often.
- Hospitality is another essential skill as an event planner that you need to show your clients that you can go over and above to surprise and delight as a means of adding to their experience at your event.
- Event planners should learn to build their creativity and problem-solving skills as coming up with new and exciting experiences and solving problems are common in our space.
- Although event planning platforms are numerous, it is very frequent to see spreadsheets or Excel for numerous functions.
- It is such a powerful skill to be influential. When you use influence as a strength you can help your clients see solutions in the way that you see them so that they can make the best decisions for their event.
- Be aware of the opportunities for influence that you have around you in order to start flexing this essential skill.
Thank you for listening to this episode of the Planners on Purpose podcast. Until next time, stay on purpose.
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Share today's episode and tag me @plannersonpurpose
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Overwhelmed and Struggling with how to move forward? Get clarity by downloading my FREE Master Your Burnout Guide.
Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process.
- Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
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By Naomi Tucker, CMP
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Event planners have many skills that they lean on in order to plan amazing meetings and events. If you are new to the event planning space this episode will provide you with 5 basic essential skills that event planners can lean on when developing yourself as an event planner.
Episode Highlights
- Customer service is an essential skill that allows you to service your client effectively.
- With customer service, it's important to be pleasant and easy to work with. This will bring customers back to you again and again.
- Put yourself in a position where you can level up your customer service skill set by solving customers' requests often.
- Hospitality is another essential skill as an event planner that you need to show your clients that you can go over and above to surprise and delight as a means of adding to their experience at your event.
- Event planners should learn to build their creativity and problem-solving skills as coming up with new and exciting experiences and solving problems are common in our space.
- Although event planning platforms are numerous, it is very frequent to see spreadsheets or Excel for numerous functions.
- It is such a powerful skill to be influential. When you use influence as a strength you can help your clients see solutions in the way that you see them so that they can make the best decisions for their event.
- Be aware of the opportunities for influence that you have around you in order to start flexing this essential skill.
Thank you for listening to this episode of the Planners on Purpose podcast. Until next time, stay on purpose.
Support the show
Share today's episode and tag me @plannersonpurpose
Snag Free Gifts and Learn More at https://www.plannersonpurpose.com
Overwhelmed and Struggling with how to move forward? Get clarity by downloading my FREE Master Your Burnout Guide.
Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process.
- Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
- Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.