Episode 11: The Importance of Deadlines
Planning an event is taxing enough without adding to your own stress. When you don’t have hard deadlines for things, you are adding to that stress.
There are three key areas where you should have firm deadlines when planning a fundraising event; sponsor deliverables, auction donations and event registration. When you don't have deadlines, or worse yet, when you don't stick to your deadlines, you're adding extra work and stress for yourself and the planning team.
Find out why these deadlines are important, why I often get pushback on them and how to kindly but gently stick to your guns on them.
Listener Action Item:
Pick one area where you want to start implementing a deadline.
If this is a brand new event, just set your deadlines, hold to them and you’re done.
If you haven’t had deadlines and now want to implement them, take a look at your planning timeline. Determine the best date for that deadline and mark it in bold letters on your calendar or in your project management tool such as Asana or Trello.
Work backwards from your deadline and add any tasks to your timeline that are affected by that deadline. Make sure you get everything on your calendar you need to do to not only implement but enforce the new deadline.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Episode #4: Leaving enough time to plan your event
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