Event Team

In putting together your Event Team, you'll need to ask yourself a series of questions;


 * What skills are required for the event to come together?
 * What mix of personalities is required to form an harmonious, high-achieving team?
 * Which people will be best suited to which jobs?
 * Are you the best person to act as team leader, and if not, who would be?
 * What is the likely time commitment that would be required?
 * Where will you find the skills you need to run your event?
 * How will you handle team development, team conflict and team disharmony etc?

Team leadership tools

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckman%27s_stages_of_group_development
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belbin_Team_Inventory
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers_briggs
 * Concept of Allies, Fanatics, Luke Warm supporters etc - http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCUQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.acs.org.au%2Fnsw%2Fsigs%2Fpm%2FKeyStakeholdersandCommunicationPlanning.ppt&ei=RbURT42sDImciQemjJ1D&usg=AFQjCNENcgZWAbHayQqIJlFHGyZ4XIkkpg&sig2=g-YnPQwoJbcn3rF0_IfrEA

Finding the best people
You probably already know, or know of the people who will be the best for your team. You've probably already seen them in action at a previous event and thought - wow! That person makes a fantastic event organiser, or media liaison, or graphic designer, or network engineer - you get the drift. Similarly, you've probably also come across the types of people you don't want to have on your team - those that are lazy, require significant amounts of direction or constant prodding, or those that over promise and under deliver.

Often observing people in action is the best way to find your event team!

Example volunteer information pack

 * http://wiki.linux.org.au/w/images/b/be/Lca2012-volunteer-info-packv1.4.pdf