How The Eagle Awards & Banquet Can Boost Your Business, Profitability

Banqueting and citations could be major highlights of a good awards ceremony, but they may not be the most important aspects..

Insightful managers and business leaders know very well that there is more to all the banqueting than meets the eye and go ahead to strategise ahead of time.

If you look at it critically, nothing could be as valuable as the networking opportunity.

As you are busy on your regular desk, so are other executives or topflight managers, and if an awards ceremony has done the imaginable of dragging everyone to a venue to unwind, no opportunity could be grander.

So, how can companies and organisations make the most of an awards ceremony?

1. GET MANAGEMENT BUY-IN

It is important that you get the top management to buy into the idea of the ceremony if it tallies with your corporate objectives. In other words, if it promises to advance or entrench the brand you represent, the company you work for, or the new business line under your official portfolio, seek to make the make the most of it by securing management buy in.

Do a proper analyses of the upcoming event in terms of potentials and take the list to top management.

Woo others on the line whose input would lead to the okaying of your proposition.

Especially if you occupy the line which stands to be blamed from failure to leveraging from rare opportunites, take it upon your life to convince your bosses/colleagues why your brand must fly at the event.

ii. SECURE A TABLE

Using The Eagle Awards & Banquet  as an example, participating companies have the opportunity of prominent positioning amidst a sea of competitors via the table arrangement.

Thus, securing a table for your organization is one way of making a bold statement at an awards ceremony, but much more a way of maximizing the potential that come with it.

It makes quick consultations both possible and easy.  A competitor’s strategic move may require an efficient and prompt counter, which the brains of a single delegate may not be able to come up with, and in requisite speed.

At a table, the team could quickly consult and arrive at something that would give the organization an advantage.

iii. MAKE A VALUE PR PROPOSITION

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Depending on the nature of the event, you may need to do a display of your products, especially if you desire to do more than be an award recipient. Category leaders use the opportunity to bombard the venue with their brands, either via a physical display or perhaps advertorials on prime slots in the event/official programme.

It is the same if you chose to brand the entire venue or have your brand icons emblazoned at certain spots.

IV. NETWORK WITH COLLEAGUES 

There cant be a better forum to network with other participants than an awards nite. You would be doing your corporate self good by bringing  along materials like information booklets on products and services, as well as contact particulars like business cards  o the forum.

v. Celebrate for once

daily work schedules could be chocking to the point that there is no time to unwind. Here is the opportunity. Take your time, dress your best for the awards so that you can celebrate yourself. With choice wines and good cuisine there can be no better place really to celebrate one’s self for once.

VI. TELL THE STORY

the things that play out at awards ceremonies are usually what you see everyday, so there is need to keep  records.. Make preparations ahead of time – prepare to record the epochal sessions, either in videos or photographs.

With these, it becomes easy for you to tell the story