Project Management

Event Management Basics

In this course you will learn:

  • What Event Types Are and How to Categorize Them: Understand the various types of events and the criteria for categorizing them effectively.
  • How to Enter the Events Management Field: Explore the pathways and methods for entering the field of events management.
  • What Essential Skills Are Needed to Be an Event Manager: Identify the core competencies required for success, including communication, organization, and problem-solving.
  • How to Reflect the Project Lifecycle in Events: Understand the adaptation of the project lifecycle model to plan and execute events effectively.
  • What Are the Ten Knowledge Areas of Events Management: Familiarize yourself with the ten knowledge areas specific to events management, encompassing risk management, logistics, and marketing.
  • What Are the Main Productivity Tools for Event Management: Discover the primary productivity tools and techniques that can boost efficiency in events management.
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Who takes this Course

  • Students

Content

9 Lectures • 51 minutes 50 seconds

  • Lecture 1: Intro

    1 minute 19 seconds

  • Lecture 2: Event Types

    4 minutes 55 seconds

  • Lecture 3: How to Enter Events Management

    4 minutes 57 seconds

  • Lecture 4: Event Manager Skills

    5 minutes 48 seconds

  • Lecture 5: Project Life Cycle

    7 minutes 29 seconds

  • Lecture 6: Ten knowledge areas Part 1

    7 minutes 40 seconds

  • Lecture 7: Ten knowledge areas Part 2

    12 minutes 28 seconds

  • Lecture 8: Tools for Event Management

    5 minutes 1 second

  • Lecture 9: Conclusion

    2 minutes 13 seconds

Meet your instructor

Mohamed Akmal

Mohamed Akmal

Akmal is an event manager with more than 9 years of experience in this field. Now, Akmal is the Co-Founder and CEO at Freelance Yard and Co-Founder at Career 180, Talent Yard (present), and Ebda3 Co-working Space (earlier).

He is passionate about event management and recruitment so, he merges his two main targets for upgrading the ecosystem by putting them under the same umbrella of creating job fairs.

He holds more than one job fair per year, like: Egypt Career Summit and Freelance Job Fair.

Akmal always seeking to develop businesses so, he worked as a business developer at Eventtus, in addition to be a project manager in many projects for well-known companies like: Etisalat, OLX, PepsiCo, Dream and DMG.

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