Event planning for Office Managers, HR teams, and anyone who got handed a corporate event without events-background credentials. Practical, anxiety-reducing, and complete — five core posts that walk you from "I have no clue" to "the event landed."
Who this is for: Office Managers and HR coordinators asked to organize the team offsite, holiday party, or all-hands. Internal-comms folks running their first kickoff. Founder's-EAs taking over events from a departed event lead. You're not an "events person" — and you don't have to be. This series gives you the same checklists professional planners use, in plain English, for typical corporate events (50-300 attendees, 1-3 days).
The 5-post starter pack
Read them in order if you're starting cold. Skip to the one that matches your panic if you're mid-project.
Corporate event planning is dominated by content written for full-time event pros, not the actual people booking 70% of mid-sized European events: Office Managers, HR coordinators, and EAs handed events as one of fifteen responsibilities. The advice from Meeting Professional magazine doesn't help when you have 30 days, no events background, and a CEO asking when the venue will be confirmed.
This Bible is built for that reality. Each post is what we'd tell a friend who messaged "help, I have to plan a 60-person offsite" — practical, no jargon, no upsell to expensive event-planning software you don't need.
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