Image from Pexels – CC0 License
Planning and hosting events is a great way to put your leadership skills to the test. Not only that, but it’s also a great way to share your leadership knowledge with others. Events that you host could involve you speaking to the audience or you might take more of a role behind the scenes, organizing everything and allowing other people to take to the stage. Whatever you decide to do, it offers you a chance to show what you can do as a leader and to keep learning new things too. It can take a lot to bring an event together and it definitely requires good leadership.
Plan Valuable Events
Before planning any events, you need to consider what you can deliver that will be valuable to your audience. If the event is going to be centered around your own leadership knowledge or other skills, what do you have to offer your audience that others might not? If you’re planning on bringing in other speakers or people to carry out workshops and other sessions, what can you offer them? Your event needs to provide value so it’s important to think about who the event is for and what they will get out of it.
Image from Pexels – CC0 License
Find the Right Venue
Every event needs a venue. Even if you’re hosting an online event, you need a platform that you can use to host it. If you are taking a leadership position in planning an event, perhaps it won’t be your direct responsibility to find the right venue. But even if you delegate the task, you should still be involved in the decision-making. Part of being a good leader is to ensure you stay in touch with your team and make sure you’re involved with what they’re doing so that they have the essential support that they need.
Seek the Necessary Support
Once a venue has been secured, you also have to consider everything else that is required for hosting an event. You will need to seek audio visual labor to get all of the technical specifics in place for your event. You might need to find catering options and other services that are important to provide your audience with the facilities and amenities that they may require. A good leader knows how to identify the resources that are needed and understands the skills of their team so that they can delegate tasks appropriately.
Image from Pexels – CC0 License
Share Your Leadership Knowledge
Planning an event may not mean offering leadership advice, but events can be a great opportunity to share your leadership knowledge. Even if the event itself isn’t focused on leadership, there is often a potential for a talk or workshop focused on leadership skills to fit in. For example, if the event is for a specific industry, there could certainly be space in the program for discussing leadership within that industry or for specific types of businesses.
When you get involved with events, it can be a great opportunity to stretch your leadership skills, whether as an event planner or a speaker.
Share this Post