Planners on Purpose Podcast

If you are in the event profession, there are aspects of your job that you love. This episode is all about what we love about doing the great work that we do in planning events. 

Our work touches more than just the attendees of a meeting. Our impacts of what we do touch companies and the experiences that we plan for them can change the world. Listen as I share with you 10 areas of event planning that I love and compare them with your top 10 list to see what we have in common with loving events.

Here is what I love about events:

• Expressing Creativity
• Travel and Culture
• Meeting New People
• Solving Problems
• Sense of Accomplishment
• Inside Scoops
• Variety of Duties
• Personal Growth
• Personalized Experiences
• Collaborative    

Do you see a few areas that you love? I would love to hear from you what you love about events. Let me know in the comments as you give this podcast a high 5 rating!  

Thank you so much for listening, please stay on purpose. 

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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. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

There is a hidden cost of burnout that affects the events industry. With over 76% of American workers experiencing burnout, it isn't surprising that this is an area where organizations now need to take the helm. 

Helping to decrease the effects of burnout in the event industry starts first with organizations implementing a burnout strategy. This strategy could cover how burnout will be prevented within their organization. It is a crucial piece of burnout prevention and can keep organizations in front of their competition.

Managing burnout can retain top talent, create a happy workforce, and will eliminate costs associated with employees taking time away, or leaving the organization.  

This episode unpacks some of the areas that aren't necessarily looked at for causes of burnout, in an effort to bring awareness.  Here are some of the areas that we cover:

• Communication
• Community
• Skillset Alignment 
• Company Mission/Goals Alignment
• Career Pathing/Growth

Links and Resources
Banish Burnout Challenge

Thank you so much for listening, 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. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

Many of us don't realize that we are in toxic jobs until it is too late. So this episode will provide you with 5 signs that you should be aware of to check and see if you are in a toxic job that may be headed downhill fast. 

This episode comes with the understanding that we are in the event industry, an industry that has an immense amount of pressure, high-touch clients, and high amounts of stress. It is meant to highlight situations that go beyond what's acceptable.  However, maybe if we find that this is a standard, then what is 'acceptable' may have to be adjusted to save many of our treasured talent people from burning out and leaving the industry.

The 5 signs that are discussed on this podcast episode are:

1. Being sick and fatigued to the point of exhaustion
2. High amount of turnover at an organization
3. Stagnancy within the organization - no growth
4. A clear and consistent lack of the respect of boundaries 
5. Harrassment and bullying by co-workers and event clients

One thing is for sure. These situations in their most potent form are not okay and do not support overall well-being and mental health of the person impacted. If these signs are experienced, then bringing awareness through conversation is a good first step, allowing for resolution. However, if these situations persist, then moving away could be the best outcome.     
 
Links and Resources
Banish Burnout Challenge

Thank you so much for listening, please 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. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

There is a segment of burnout that isn't typically discussed. It has to do with how diversity impacts the burnout experience, and in this episode, we dig deeper into the black experience with burnout.

Black people have a different experience than many others when it comes to burnout. Much of the reason why they experience more burdensome impacts of burnout is due to the marginalization, along with other systemic challenges in the world.

More specifically, black women experience burnout more than any other group due to these same challenges. Additionally, black women experience things like black maternal mortality, weathering, glass ceilings, and tokenism that all contribute to the continued battle that they face daily.

This episode uncovers many of these insights and also offers to the reader what they can do to not only support this community but also to elevate the conversations in their department and in their organizations so that we help make changes that impact us all.   

Links and Resources
Fast Company Article
Banish Burnout Challenge

If you enjoyed this episode rate it a high 5! Thank you for listening, stay on purpose.

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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. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

In this episode, Bill Hansen, an industry celebrity and veteran joins us to share his knowledge on building a caring culture, one that is built on and for its people.

Over the last four decades, Bill Hansen has hosted four U.S. presidents, championship Super Bowl teams, and countless celebrities and athletes. He has catered events for everyone from Pope John Paul II, to The Bush family, The Reagan family, Michael Jordan, Usher, Kim Kardashian and the list goes on.

During our conversation, Bill talked about his roots in entrepreneurship from selling door-to-door and operating concessions, and how the spirit of entrepreneurship is engrained in him and fueled how his company got started.

For Bill, culture is the number one goal, and is an ever-evolving situation as his company aims to build the ultimate family culture. Building this culture is important and one of the key elements that are needed is engaged workers because engaged workers are happy workers, Bill says.

Bill also discusses trends he is currently seeing in the catering space. How highly customized menus are a trend that will stay. He says that more people are using social media to fuel their vision for their events, and how food may now be the last thing that people tend to think of when planning their event experience.

We hope you enjoy this chat with Bill Hansen.

Links and Resources
Bill Hansen Catering Company

If you enjoyed the show please give us a "5"! Thank you for listening, please stay on purpose!

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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. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

As we are planning events, we can experience overwhelm and burnout from all different directions. Many times, we triage this ourselves, but when the going gets tough it can be helpful to take our situations to an event leader to get feedback and perhaps collaborate on the best way forward in our work.

So how do you talk to your event leaders about burnout? One of the first steps before talking to your event leader is to reflect on your situation. Think through all different areas of your situation, specifics on what the true challenge is, and work out any recommendations for resolutions so that your event leader knows that you've thought things through.

After reflecting on your situation, create a few opportunities for enhancement that you can present during your conversation with the event leader. This will open up the conversation in the direction in which you see an effective resolve, but then also allow the leader to collaborate on the solution alongside you.

This episode shares ideas on how to approach your leader and gives key questions that you can ask to really analyze your challenges in a way that is supportive of you and the business.

At the end of the day, put yourself first, don't suffer from burnout in silence. Do the big thing, and talk to your leader to get the help you need.

Links and Resources
Banish Burnout Challenge - coming soon!

Thank you so much for listening, 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. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

Client relationships are very important to businesses Yet, what happens when those relationships struggle? How can you maintain a healthy client relationship, one that thrives, not just survives?

Our clients have a stake in the success of the work that we do for them. It's understandable that they oversee, critique, and even hover over the process, however, it doesn't have to feel so tough to navigate.

In this episode, I unpack 4 tips that will support you in having healthy relationships with your clients. Relationships that are founded on communication, transparency, follow-through, and care. Implement even one of these four tips and watch your relationships grow.

Links and Resources
Planners on Purpose Newsletter

Thank you for listening, please 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. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

With all of the AI tools popping up on the scene, it should encourage professionals to action to learn and utilize these tools to make the job of planning an event easier than it was before.

We are living in some exhilarating times where we can essentially work virtually, use artificial intelligence to help us brainstorm content for our attendee emails, and help us with a site search for an event. 

This episode will open you up to just the simplest application of adding AI to your work. It's important for event planners to explore and see what options are available to them. If these tools are applied and can make our jobs easier, then we are able to utilize our time to really finesse the skills in which AI isn't useful.

The inspiration for this episode came from a really great article that I had some help in contributing to. To learn more about AI, and grab some recommended AI tools, please visit the article by Wisconsin Meetings on AI tools below. 

Links and Resources
Wisconsin Meetings Article - AI Tools for Event Planning

Thank you so much for listening, please 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. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

Event planners are talented individuals who can put some pizzazz on events, however, to make it all come together it also takes some soft skills.

If you're a new event planner or an event planner wanting to brush up on a few soft skills to enhance your career, this is a great episode, as we'll be diving into 7 soft skills that every event planner should have.  

Soft skills are those skills have have to do with personality, or skills that aren't necessarily tangible or able to be measured like knowing Microsoft Excel. The soft skills that we will dive into in this episode are:

• Ability to work long hours (when necessary)
• Communication
• Patience
• Initiative
• Service Mindset
• React under pressure

Because of the nature of the nature of the industry, these are important to have, and in having them can ensure that their event or event career will have a level of polish that can guarantee its success. 

Thank you so much, 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. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

Workplace stress can be tough to work through because there can be many causes of it. The key is to understand some key areas to look out for that cause much stress and to work diligently to reduce it. 

In this podcast episode, I share 4 ways for you to reduce stress in the workplace. No matter if it is at the beginning of your planning process or at the end, we all experience stress. Although the stress is inevitable at times, this episode talks through these four areas to reduce it:

1. Great Vision
2. Good Communication
3. Taking Breaks
4. Create Laughter

There are plenty more areas to help you to reduce stress, but if you really pay attention to these four, you'll find your stress significantly reduced from where it was before. Let us know how these have helped you in reducing your stress in the workplace by commenting below! 

Thank you so much for listening, please 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. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.