Pecha Kucha

Today, I conducted the first Pecha Kucha day in Saudi Arabia, and it was a great success with so much positive feedback.. In this event and others that I have been involved in, I found that event management as a project is no different than any other project in terms of stakeholder management, even though you are managing it by yourself but have so many others participating in the event itself.
Patience, persistence, good communications, and clear schedule and deadlines puts all the participants at ease, and encourage them to continue their preparations for the big day. In the last couple of weeks, for one reason or another, some of the participants were about to drop out from the event, which could lead to a disaster in such first of its kind endeavors. Pushing and encouraging them, assuring them that they will get all the help they need, reminding them of the main goals behind the event and how much their participation is important and useful were the most important techniques I used to keep everyone on the bus and lead a successful event.
Few months ago, this was just an idea, and seeing it come true with such favorable outcome is a very euphoriating sensations..More later