Introduction to event

 
Event Management HM-402 
Uttarakhand Open University 
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Responsibility without authority is yet another challenge that the event manager 
faces. When team members have a dual reporting structure the event manager may 
find it difficult to exert influence over the team members. Direct authority over 
personnel tends to rest with the functional manager while the event manager has little 
direct authority over the event 
team 
members 
or 
their 
managers. In such dynamic 
environment 
the 
event 
manager must achieve the 
objective 
with 
leadership 
styles 
oriented 
towards 
maintaining productivity and 
positive human relations. 
It is universally accepted that 
leadership is an influencing 
process between leaders and followers to achieve organizational objectives through 
change. Leadership has also been defined as getting things done through others. In 
event management, this means that the event manager must achieves results through 
the event team. In other words, inspiring people assigned to the event to work as a 
team to achieve the event objective is essential aspect of event leadership. 
3.6.1 Leadership Skills
The skills of the leader can be distinguished to hard skills and soft skills. Hard skills 
indicate technical or industry-specific knowledge and the ability to communicate this 
knowledge with the team and by soft skills meaning. In an international event the 
human relations skills such as team management and conflict, cross-cultural 
competence may be the most relevant leadership skill in understanding of different 
work styles and helps the event manager to solve conflicts. 
The three core management skills technical skills, interpersonal skills and decision-
making skills are essential for any to succeed. Technical skills involve the 
knowledge and the ability to use methods, processes, techniques, tools and 
equipment to perform a task. These skills are also sometimes called business skills. 
The technical skills are the easiest one‘s to develop from the three management 
skills, but they can vary a lot depending on the job. Understanding the facility 
management plan, various equipment‘s required during the event and various aspects 
of space layout are part of technical skills. Successful event leaders have the ability 
to use a systems approach for completing tasks that met performance standards on 
time and within planned costs. 
Interpersonal skills are also called people skills or soft skills. They are the ability to 
understand, communicate and work well with individuals and groups through 
developing effective relationships. Leaders required interpersonal skills such as 
negotiating, motivating, decision making and problem solving balance between the 
technical and leadership aspects of event management and states that the event 
manager's goals are to build team morale and foster good working relations so 
everyone is eager to work toward a common goal.

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