The most important resource you can have in event-planning is people power. Do you have enough staff? How about volunteers? Events take a lot of work, and even the best people burn out on the job. Make sure you have enough people involved in your planning to get the event off the ground.

Your second most valued resource is time. In reality, you need to allow nine to twelve months to plan an event. Without this time, the stress level goes up exponentially, because you don't have enough time to get everything done, and you can't do it right. The people involved in the planning are likely to be stressed, which impacts the way they work.

Lastly, support is an under-appreciated resource. Consider yourself lucky is you have unquestioning support from your upper management. This is a resource you won't value appropriately until you have to work for it. If at all possible, get the support from your uppers before you get to start the planning process: you never know when you'll need it.

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