So You've Been Asked to Do the Company Event

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ASSIGN & DELEGATE

Delegate any task you can. For an idea of how to organize this, take a look at a program from a big event, or those ball flyers. They'll list allrepparttar committee chairs. SAVING MONEY

There are many ways you can get things for little or no money. Entertainment, for instance. If you look around town, you'll find groups who perform forrepparttar 131084 love of it, and they can be quite good.

Remember that children always "work." They can be as bad as bad, and that much more adorable. I had a group of kids perform free) when I did a New Orleans Jazz Brunch. I had a professional jazz band lead in with "Whenrepparttar 131085 Saints Go Marching In" andrepparttar 131086 children, dressed in Mardi Gras costumes, ran around throwing coins, confetti, and streamers.

Throwing confetti? I had a hotel Event Coordinator agree to let us bring in men on motorcycles if we agreed to clean up any oil spills.

You truly never know!

There's also a serious Boys' Choir in S.A. I've used, and they were worth what they charged. Stay away from amateur comedians. Bad humor is irretrievable and so is your reputation. EXPECT THE WORST

Because it will happen. I've had every volunteer fail at some point - no decorations, no program ... You just have to learn how to cope. If decorations person f ails, buy a pretty floral arrangement for each table. If there's no money, buy that crepey paper and "wrap" each table like a gift.

HAVE A TRANQUIL FRIEND

Your nerves may be a bit on edge. I rememberrepparttar 131087 maitre d' who saw me about to decompensate at set-up time, who took me in his arms and said, "Let's dance," and waltzed me around repparttar 131088 mess inrepparttar 131089 ballroom that was bad and getting worse.

I rememberrepparttar 131090 chef who told me at set-up time that he couldn't possibly serve this in less than 3 hours, "Surely you jest." Lucha was there. She went intorepparttar 131091 kitchen with him and came back 30 minutes later saying brunch would be served in 50 minutes. KNOW YOUR CEO

Some need to be briefed on how to runrepparttar 131092 show; some don't. SPEAKERS?

Ready sources for speakers are ministers, community leaders, university professors, and professional speakers. And hey, askrepparttar 131093 mayor. You never know!

DONATIONS

Getting door prizes is easy. Send out form letters or make phone calls to business owners telling them they'll get promotion inrepparttar 131094 program. Restaurants will kick in dinners, airlines will give tickets, hotels will give golf packages. These places have budgets for this kind of thing. They'll also foot printing costs.

PROCESS

Process afterrepparttar 131095 event and keep things in a file. You'll want to remember what worked and what didn't.

Susan Dunn is a personal and professional development coach who helps clients discover their strengths and live authentically. Visit her on the web at www.susandunn.cc and mailto:sdunn@susandunn.cc for FREE strengths course, put "strengths" for ezine.


Grandmother, What Big Eyes You Have: An EQ Tale

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Little Red Riding would have had all sorts of cues that something was amiss – a strange smell, things arranged differently, mayberepparttar hair stood up onrepparttar 131082 back of her neck, of a chill ran down her spine. Feelings such as these are there to help us; they keep us alive. They’re strong, because they’re designed to over-ride “thinking” and impel immediate action. Little Red Riding did exactly what she shouldn’t have in a possibly dangerous situation – she started asking questions.

As adults, we receiverepparttar 131083 same cues and need to learn to heed them. If something “smells fishy” it probably is, no matter what you’ve been told or led to believe. If you “getrepparttar 131084 creeps” getting out of your car in a dark, empty parking lot, pay attention to this signal. If someone is promising you something and it doesn’t “feel” right, you’re getting a message for a reason.

Intuition is an emotional intelligence competency we’re all born with, but we can learn to pump uprepparttar 131085 volume, invite it into our life forrepparttar 131086 guide it can be, and heed its messages. It’s important allrepparttar 131087 time, but if you have a dangerous occupation (such as nuclear engineering), it’s especially important.

Don’t get caught staring into a mouth of wolflike teeth and starting to countrepparttar 131088 molars!

Susan Dunn, The EQ Coach, helps clients get organized and succeed with the Don't Die at 50 Weekly Organizational Calendar, Good Accountability System, Internet courses. www.susandunn.cc and mailto:sdunn@susandunn.cc.


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