Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
Sure, it’s an overused quote, but January is a time of reflection. A time to reflect upon what you have learned from 2024, what do you want to take with you into 2025 and what do you want to change.
Event management is a fantastic job. Big or small events are rewarding to organise. But it’s a career that comes with a cost. Long hours, stress, burnout. Does that sound familiar? The question is what can we do to keep everything we love about the job and remove some of the burden, some of the insanity
Process is our best friend
We speak with a lot of event companies, and the successful ones are founded on a rigorous process. It’s what keeps the ship afloat as they get battered by waves of information when planning an event. But many of these processes are archaic, repetitive, and very time consuming. As event day approaches they can become a burden, the reason you are up at 2.00am every night leading up to the event.
Changes….changes….changes
It’s a fact of event life that there will be changes. A change to the speaker line up, a change to timings, room changes, set up and pack down changes. Every change has a knock on effect. The program has to be updated, the website, the event app. Briefing documents and production schedules have to be updated and redistributed. It's exhausting just thinking about it.
Archaic, repetitive, and very time consuming
The archaic, repetitive, and very time consuming bit of it is the tools we use. Spreadsheets. Stand alone spreadsheets. So if the program changes you have to manually update one, two, three or more spreadsheets holding different information. Insanity
Cure for insanity
Wouldn’t it be good if the tools were better. If you could, say, change the speaker name and the website, event app, briefs and schedules all updated automatically. How much time would that save? How much stress would that remove knowing all documents are up to date? How much more would you enjoy your job? Well, the cure is here and it’s called Joi.
A word from someone who has been cured!
Joi is a game changer for our annual all company event. It not only replaced all of our various planning and cueing documents, it integrated them into one platform, accessible by the entire team on the go. This enabled seamless communication, made our team so much more efficient and reduced a ton of stress on show days. We will not be planning events without Joi, from start to finish, anymore!
Courtney Bryant
VP of Development and Homecoming Event Chair at VPP
Why not break the cycle and give Joi a go in 2025.