This is the start of the process of investigation; research and decision making that will ultimately lead to the development of detailed plans for the successful delivery of your event. (Remember on your first reading you are only being asked to recognise the method and stages and to start thinking about the decisions you will be asked to make during the second, ‘workbook’ phase.)

What is an event manager?

For anything and everything, there has to be one person with supreme authority. For our purposes we will assume that the person in charge of a proposed event is called the ‘event manager’. Their primary duty is to make or confirm all decisions and act as central liaison, directing and controlling the activities of individuals to whom they have delegated responsibility for elements of the organisation and arrangements for an event.