How to Knockout Challenges in Events the Pacman Way
Thursday, April 30, 2015
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As the fight between Manny
“Pacman” Pacquiao and Floyd “Money” Mayweather nears, excitement is becoming
unbearable to all boxing aficionados. No doubt, this Fight of the Century will
leave an indelible mark in the sporting history.
But before watching this
fight, you as an event manager and organizer can learn valuable lessons from Pacman
on how to knockout event challenges. Here are some of the lessons:
Know Your Strength
Pacman throws a wicked left
punch that sent a lot of opponents to the canvass. He knows his strength and so
should you. As an event manager, what is your strength is it the
conceptualization, planning, actual implementation? Knowing your strengths will
give you an advantage in winning clients and projects.
Improve Your Weakness
Pacman used to be a one
fisted fighter. Knowing this weakness, with the help of Freddie Roach, Pacman
was able to develop his right hand. Having developed the power of his right
hand, opponents is finding him more dangerous. Also, this resulted to a lot of
victories. In fact, he is the only boxer to win a championship in eight
divisions.
As event manager, it is a
must that you know your weaknesses. At the same time, it is imperative that you
improve these weaknesses if you cannot improve then you must hire people that
will complement you and obliterate these points that make accomplishing your
tasks difficult.
Be Relentless
Inside the ring, Pacman is
relentless in pursuing his opponent. Some of his opponents commented that they
felt overwhelmed, making them unable to execute their game plan.
As an event manager, you
must be relentless in checking every detail of your events. You must
relentlessly think ahead (advance thinking or proactive) on what possible problems
might occur and ready solutions to avoid creating wildfires of problems.
Being relentless meant
having sleepless nights, being paranoid on unlikely situations that might
occur, and creating systems and redundancy to ensure all grounds are covered in
your events.
Be Humble
Despite being successful,
Pacman remains humble. This trait made him won the hearts of a lot of people
all over the world. The intoxicating effect of success never enters his mind.
He remains firmly rooted on the ground.
As event manager, you must
also remain humble. The success of your past events does not guarantee success
of your current and future events. You can never boast your past
accomplishments, it must only serve as inspiration that you can make the
impossible possible.
Embracing humbleness as a
trait will allow you to learn more and be better for your next project.
Work for Bigger Reason and Deeper Meaning
Pacman never fights for his
own pleasure and interest, he always fights with a bigger reason and deeper
meaning. He fights for his country. He wants to make the Philippines known and
his countrymen proud that they are Filipinos.
As event manager, are you
working for a bigger reason or deeper meaning? Are you working for your family,
for your society’s betterment, for your country’s growth?
The bigger reason and deeper
meaning will make you, as an event manager, more effective and energetic in
facing head-on insurmountable challenges. And in terms of success ratio, you
will have better winning average in creating events that will make your clients
and target audience give you a thumbs-up.
Now that you know the Pacman
Way, expect that you will find yourself raising your hands and hearing applause
from your clients and target audience.
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