Since February, I've been the project lead for developing a new supplier award strategy and after four months on the drawing board, we started the award process in June. From July on, I focused on planning the award event.
I handled all the details - booking a photographer, inviting all the executives, pulling together a plant tour, lining up the agenda, and even participating in writing the press release that gets published! It is such a great experience to build something from scratch and seeing it fruition!
On the Tuesday of that week, I received an email from our keynote speaker cancelling the event due to a business emergency! I was so freaked out!!! Fortunately, I had a back up in mind and quickly approached him. Within a day, we received confirmation that he can backfill! phew!!!!
For the whole week, I worked for 14+ hours each day trying to do all the last touches and the night before, I stayed in the office until 9pm to print all the agendas, driving directions, presentations...which was a BLESSING because the Don Mills fire on Thursday morning caused all our servers to malfunction and no one was able to print!
On the morning of, I felt really good that everything was in place. There were no more things to prepare, print, or plan, just clean execution. It was also good that I had a great supporting team to help me do a lot of the work. Without them, the day would not have been this smooth!
The highlight of my day had to be meeting our CEO and chatting with him. He is very friendly and approachable! It was such an honour to have him attend our event - our suppliers were so enlightened by his speech! The cocktail and dinner was held at the Estates of Sunnybrook (btw, if you are planning a wedding and your wedding party is not big, you can certainly consider this venue, they are very great to deal with and the food is excellent!).
Now that this big project is done, I feel so relieved!
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