Abstract
When the Managing Director remarks, as casually as he asks for a cup of coffee, that the directors have decided to hold an important conference and that you are to help him mastermind the plan of campaign, the main thing is to keep a steady nerve. Make sure, however, that you will be allowed sufficient time to complete the organisation thoroughly and that you will be given adequate help.
Clarifying the objectives; checking the costs; choosing the chairman; delegation of duties; venue; suitable accommodation; guest of honour; speakers and visual aids; programme planning; invitations, acceptances, refusals; press and publicity; conference staff; conference folders; aftermath; post mortem
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© 1980 Joan Moncrieff and Doreen Sharp
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Moncrieff, J., Sharp, D. (1980). Conference Planning. In: The Professional Secretary’s Handbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16340-3_3
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