Event Planning Timeline

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Setting up a timeline to track conference planning essentials is an effective way to ensure all tasks are accounted for and covered. In this lesson, you'll learn more about establishing a timeline for your event. Plan For Success Diana is gearing up to start planning her company's annual conference when a quote by Benjamin Franklin comes across her social media newsfeed: 'If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.' Yikes! Diana knows she needs to get started on her planning journey soon. She is looking for a way to simplify the process of establishing tasks to be completed and assigning them to various individuals. What Diana needs is a timeline, or outline, to track progress during her planning. Let's work on building a timeline that can help Diana and her team. …show more content…

A timeline can serve as a roadmap in a number of ways: 1. It displays all actions that need to be completed 2. It generally includes hard deadlines for each task 3. It provides a place to assign duties to different individuals A timeline for a conference or event will vary from one meeting to the next, based on the complexity and size of the event and how soon you start the planning process. More time allotted is always better than less, but realistically, that is not always possible. How you assign and prioritize tasks will be based on whether you have six weeks or six months to get up and running. It's important to note that a timeline should be as comprehensive as possible to keep essential tasks from falling through the cracks. Deadlines are a must to ensure that tasks are being handled on time. The key to a great timeline is its fluidity, meaning it is constantly a work in progress and changing as key dates pass and tasks are completed. Building a Timeline To build a timeline, Diana can follow these basic steps: 1. Create a lists of all tasks to be completed. This could include everything from securing the venue to sending

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