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A venue finding agency is an assistant’s best friend!

Practically Perfect PA

Your manager has just returned from a Board meeting. Your manager delivers the news that he has nominated you to coordinate the training. Their fabulous collection comprises Event Sweetie , which is the event management side of the business and Location Darling which is their venue and accommodation sourcing service.

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How to negotiate when planning an event

Practically Perfect PA

We are the most organised profession there is available to the working world and our skills can be transferable to many different tasks, including managing an event from start to finish. Well to be honest there is a slight chink in my event armour; I’m not the best at negotiating. She was fabulous! Venues have a high and low season.

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How to negotiate when planning an event?

Practically Perfect PA

We are the most organised profession there is available to the working world and our skills can be transferable to many different tasks, including managing an event from start to finish. Well to be honest there is a slight chink in my event armour; I’m not the best at negotiating. She was fabulous! Venues have a high and low season.

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The art of finding the perfect venue for your corporate event

Practically Perfect PA

In fact, you’ll be wondering how you ever managed without a venue finder. The best venue finders are experienced negotiators able to secure rates that are lower than if you booked direct. Function Fixers are a long established venue finding agency based in London. A low stress solution. Finding a venue can be a stressful job.

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So you’ve been asked to organise an event… now what?

Practically Perfect PA

We are asked to arrange all sorts of events including anything from a team training day through to the company Christmas party and other large scale conferences, exhibitions and dinners. Similar to the outcomes, what does your manager want to gain from this event? Do you need additional resources such as a venue finding agency to help?

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Five Barriers to Improving Employee Engagement

Energage

And yet, one report after another still names employee engagement and workplace culture at the top of a CEO’s many challenges: • The Conference Board’s annual CEO survey lists six top challenges for CEOs today, five of them related to engaging and aligning talent. Solution #5: Bring managers along. Support from managers is vital too.

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