Professional Skills Report: Event Manager Skills and Group Work

This report focuses on the professional skills required for a career in event management. The student highlights their interest in the event industry, emphasizing skills such as planning, organization, and management. The report details essential skills identified through research, including management sense, leadership, creativity, communication, interpersonal skills, and time management. It also evaluates the student's experience in group work, discussing their contributions, challenges faced, and lessons learned. The student identifies strengths in organizational and communication skills and weaknesses in idea generation and technical proficiency. The report concludes with a call for further skill development to excel as an event manager, including addressing weaknesses and honing leadership and time management abilities.

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Professional Skills
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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1. Summary of Professional Skills
 My best role is working in an event industry. I am interested to work as an event
manager in any event industry. This is so because I have skills in planning,
organizing and managing all types of events. The event industry involves a lot of
travelling which excites me to become an event manager. The salary structure of
event industries is quite high. On an average, an event manager earns £34,006 per
month. Such an amount motivates me to work in an event industry (Bouchon et al.
2017). The event industry is very competitive and hence I am keen to exercise
such skills of mine.
 After a thorough research and conducting few interviews, I have observed and
learned that a person must have these following professional skills to become an
event manager. Having a good management sense, leadership qualities, must be
creative and innovative, should have good communication and interpretation,
interpersonal skills, time management skills. I also noticed that to become an
event manager, one must have the skill of passion and eagerness. Therefore, I
examined that these are the mandatory skills that are needed to become an event
manager (Block 2016). Working in an event industry will be easier and fun if such
skills are inbuilt.
 The skills of an event manager make the event successful. Organizational skills,
negotiation skills, problem solving ability, capability to work under pressure,
flexibility, high level of attentiveness, ability to carry out tasks on time, promote
the sales and events, must be able to deal with project management, self
motivation and enthusiasm (Jones 2014). These skills are important, as without
them no one can become an event manager. No person can be born with these

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skills. Passion for becoming an event manager can make the person develop those
skills. Event industries hire event managers who qualify by having these skills.
2. Evaluation of Student Group Effectiveness
 While working in a group I like to be cooperative because that makes the task
easier and hassle free. I also supported the members of my group so that the
task is completed on time. Even when rifts and misapprehension occurs in the
group, I try to adjust and solve the confusion. Working in a group improves
the teamwork and communication skills. I try to contribute more productivity
in the team so that the task or work is done smoothly. I also acted responsible
when I was given the opportunity to work in the group and did well.
 While working in a group, every member faces some kind of difficulty or the
other. I faced an issue when the task given was not being completed on time.
Therefore, I contributed extra effort and time by helping the other members to
complete the work on time. The other challenges that were faced during my
work were conflicts among the members, work not being distributed equally
and less coordination from the other members. I have dealt with these
challenges by being responsible, coordinating and understanding. I also acted
as a leader by resolving the conflicts and made peace among the members.
 I was being over-ambitious while working in the group, as I am passionate
about being an event manager in future. To be an event manager I must be
able to work the way I did in my group with all the existing members.
Leadership quality and time management will help me work as an event
manager later (Sekaran and Bougie 2016). I tried performing all the qualities
as to how an event manager would have performed and taken care of the

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challenges. My experience in working with a group set me an example as to
how an event manager manages and executes his work.
 I would like to improve my professional skills while working in a group.
Although the group must also consist of potential members, otherwise
productive work will not be delivered. I must work in groups more often as
that would help me brush up my quality and skills (Matthews 2015). It would
be beneficial for me when I will be working in an event industry as an even
manager. I will also improve in dealing with the challenges and would try to
avoid them. I should develop more professional skills that will help me excel
in the event industry.
3. Evaluation of Professional Skills
 During the course, I have worked with a group consisting of other members
and learned about my strengths and weaknesses. I realized that my strengths
are organizational skills, time management and good communication. I
managed to organize the tasks given, completed the tasks on time and was
maintained good communication with my other team members. Apart from
my strengths, I also got aware of weaknesses. I usually lack in coming up with
ideas at the beginning of any task and I am slightly challenged
technologically. These weaknesses made me face a few hindrances during my
course.
 While my course was on, I have learned and improved on the areas of my
weakness. I have improved in the area of communication and interpretation.
This improvement made me maintain good relations with the other members
of the group while working. I had an issue with time and company
management previously but improved during the course. The other area of my

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weakness was presentation. Working on all these aspects helped me improve.
Hence, I will be able to perform well as an event manager.
 When it comes to professional skills, I need to develop them in the areas of my
weaknesses. I have faced trouble with the I.T system or technical issues. I
must also participate in the company management for more flexibility
(Peppard and Ward 2016). Improving and developing in these areas will
increase the possibility of my passion. Therefore, I played the role of an event
manager and gathered lessons from the experience of the teamwork. Due to
my course, I was made aware of both my strengths and weaknesses. Along
with this, I must develop and focus more on hard work, dedication and
maintain my good leadership skills.

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Bouchon, F., Hussain, K. and Konar, R., 2017. Event Management Education And Event
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Management, 3(1), pp.1-17.
Jones, M., 2014. Sustainable event management: A practical guide. Routledge.
Matthews, D., 2015. Special event production: The resources. Routledge.
Peppard, J. and Ward, J., 2016. The strategic management of information systems: Building a
digital strategy. John Wiley & Sons.
Sekaran, U. and Bougie, R., 2016. Research methods for business: A skill building approach.
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