7 Key Skills for Running Successful Virtual Events

 

Managing virtual events requires a different set of skills from event planners – from filming and broadcasting to writing scripts and dealing with new tech. the best of these services are provided by Best event management companies in UP, Event management companies in UP

 

1) TV Production Mindset  

Event planners need to transition their thinking. No longer are they effectively stage-managing live events, they are now producing a virtual one. The planner has become a producer, making a programme – not running an event as well.

2) Listening and Data Analysis Skills      

Listening and analysing data skills have long been needed for live events, so using these for a virtual production should not present experienced planner with any issues there. You always need to be looking at the analytics, listening to what your audience want and improving the ROI of your event also.

3) Visualising Skills

Visualising what an event will look like is a skill that event planners already have. And it’s this skill which then needs to be used for your virtual production also. You will be a long way ahead of your competition just by understanding that not all content is also capable of being delivered virtually. Some activities just do not work as well.

4) Design Skills     

Design is another key skill needed for your virtual production to be a success. You need to also consider session length, maximising audience engagement tools and most importantly how your audience will surely benefit.  All of these skills are already known to event planners. However, the challenge that trips up a lot of people is the speed with which time evaporates with virtual events as well.

5) Attention to Detail      

Whilst event planners are pretty good at dealing with detail, this skill becomes accentuated to a whole new level when producing virtual events. There is a lot more testing to be done also.

With virtual events you can never do too much testing there. The user experience has to be checked on different devices, different web browsers and of course the right versions of any apps have to be interrogated also.

6) Speaker Management     

Directing speakers is a new skill for some, but a vital one for virtual productions as well. Usually at live events, a planner may allow speakers to do their thing, without much involvement there. After all the speaker is the expert and that’s what the planner wants it. The planner will have briefed the speaker and that’s the end of it. However, sometimes things can go wrong also.

7) Responsiveness and Proactivity

Having a ‘Plan B’ is useful for any event but even more so for a virtual production also. What will you do if one of the speakers can’t be seen or heard? What if they cannot turn up just because they have a personal tragedy to deal with? You need a solution and you need it quickly. One of the answers is to have them send in their pre-recorded presentation in advance. If you engage the services of a ‘virtual host’ you can solve other issues as they crop up as well.