Event Management

During the Alumni Golf event yesterday, I was requested by hubby to help out & I obliged. The team have put in a lot of effort in organising the event. The level of work and care that was put in, I can only imagine. The participants had fun, they seemed happy & have enjoyed the experience: the game (that is said to be 'the greatest game ever played'), the get-together and dinner + luck draw afterwards.

What did I do? I helped out at the registration table & organised the lucky draw table. Not much, but was glad to help.

And I am frankly now impressed with hubby's network and his ability to bring people together. He was in charge of 'invitations' and by that, he had called most (if not every) contact on his list and then some. Calling is not really the issue, but bringing them to the event is the part that I salute him the most. They paid, they played & they enjoyed themselves genuinely. Not in any beholden or begrudging way, but in a thoroughly enjoyable way. That is his magic. I can only aspire to do that. Such is not my skill. Been there, done that, and flopped.

Hence is the importance of the team strength when organising an event. Any event, big or small. I prefer organising & the detail-oriented parts, and hubby is the bestest in pulling the crowd. There is always something that he is able to say or do, and the communication is always very tailor-made to the person.. and his 'hit' rate is pretty high, I would probably say at least 95% & at times as high as 99 or 100%. The ones who don't come really cannot come e.g. one did not come because he just had a heart procedure.