P1: describe the skills required of an event organiser

Time management is a skill you would need while you are organising an event. It is a way of splitting your time between the tasks you need to do. As a class we used time management throughout the whole time of the event organisation. We used skills such as deadlines and schedules so we had to be award of the amount of time we spend on each task as a group.

Communication skills are a very important way to communicate within a group. Within our group we have done many meetings in a classroom a total of 10. In these meetings we spoke about how far everyone has got on their task they were given, because all tasks were broken up into groups.

Problem solving is important because it is very likely for anything to go wrong so we will need a solution or a back up plan. For example while we were doing the assemblies we had a problem of the video not playing in both halls at the same time. That’s why on the Friday 8th February 2013 we made sure we had another video for the year 11.

Negotiating is any activity that influences another person. We as a group had to negotiate with Mrs Jarvis to give us prices on printing, and how much we needed to print for the event. For instance we had a variety of prices for the posters, such as different types of paper and different quality of colour printing.

Recourse management is the way you use recourses such as financial, human skills, production, IT etc. It is important to balance it all out because they you know you are not going over your limit for certain things. We as a group for the Safer Internet day we had to make sure that we have enough money to print out posters, leaflets, worksheets for lesson plans and other activities. While we were printing things using Mrs Jarvis’ advice we always made sure we first looked out for how many copies we needed and how high