Special Events or Intervention Skills

Special Events: Event Leadership for a New World(Wiley Event Management Series)

Author: Joe Goldblatt

More and more, special events courses are being taught in hospitality and events management courses.

Written by the foremost authority on event management, and with expanded coverage of leadership and its role in successful planning, this book provides a handy reference for events professionals and the tools necessary for beginners to pursue a career in special events management.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Welcome to event leadership for a new world	3
Ch. 2	Models of global event leadership	37
Ch. 3	Developing and implementing the event plan	69
Ch. 4	Management of human resources and time	117
Ch. 5	Financial administration	129
Ch. 6	Event leadership	157
Ch. 7	Managing vendor contracts	171
Ch. 8	On-site management	203
Ch. 9	Accommodating special needs	259
Ch. 10	Advertising, public relations, promotions, and sponsorship	271
Ch. 11	Online marketing	305
Ch. 12	Risk management : legal and financial safeguards	315
Ch. 13	Morality, law, and ethics in event management	341
Ch. 14	Technology for modern event management	355
Ch. 15	Advancing your career in the twenty-first century	367
Ch. 16	Case studies in twenty-first-century event leadership	397
App	Sample client agreement	457
App	Sample vendor agreement	461
App	Sample catering menus	465
App	Sample insurance certificate	469
App	Sample incident report	471
App	Sample purchase order	475
App	Sample event evaluations	477
App	ISES code of ethics	483

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Intervention Skills: Process Consultation for Small Groups and Teams

Author: W Brendan Reddy

Know how and when to intervene in a functioning group

Finally, a functional guide that focuses on putting the concept of group-process consultation into actual practice! You'll learn how and under what circumstances a process consultant should intervene to make a group's work more effective. Plus, this guide shows you how to help groups identify, diagnose, and resolve problems as they occur! Be an effective process consultant?this handbook helps you:

• Determine the appropriate type and depth of an intervention
• Realize the competencies required of the group-process consultant
• View the role, future, and ethical considerations of group-process consultation

You'll get many real-world examples of how to make critical group concepts work. And you'll get responses to commonly asked questions from working group-process consultants. Intervention Skills is a much-needed guide for the professional consultant, as well as a useful resource for anyone who plays a role in the workings of a small group.

Find out why the first printing ot this classic sold out in two weeks! Read this book and make your next group intervention more potent and effective!