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Thinking of an event budget plan isn’t fun. Yet without an exhaustive comprehension of every dollar you spend, you’re setting yourself up to overspend without realizing it. Blowing a significant amount of your budget on beverages or entertainment may sound great. However, if nothing is left to promote your event, you may have difficulty looking for attendees to take those drinks or enjoy the scintillating entertainment.
Tracking every dime spent improves your return on investment of your event. Manage the associated costs at both the macro and micro levels. However, you do not need to be a mathematics or accounting whiz kid to make this happen. You only need to follow simple guidelines to keep your event management budgeting on track.
Tips to Ensure a Healthy Event Budget
Before the actual budget planning, it is good to think deeply and critically about the expense items and activities. If this event is not the first, bring up budgets on similar events in years past and start identifying the line items. Take note of how money was spent on these line items and observe the trends. The trends will give you a better picture of what needs to go, what needs more money, and how to correct past mistakes before moving to the current event budget plan.
Set specific goals on what you intend to achieve with the budgeting process. You may want to increase the money you receive from sponsors. Or spend less money to optimize spending. Whatever your preferences, your goals will keep you in check. Your budget is also part of your return-on-investment calculation.
It is wise to have an emergency fund. So working in some contingencies of within 5% to 25% into your budget gives you the ability to absorb shocks from unexpected costs like higher-than-anticipated event venue fees. This approach minimizes stress and ensures all go smoothly. At Villa Ragusa, we can help you plan your event needs at the ideal budget for you. Call us today to experience the best of professional expertise in event management.
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Coronavirus has disrupted the work environment in an unprecedented manner. The COVID-19 restrictions have sent millions of people home to work remotely. The current challenge is to manage the workforce, and you will need to change your expectations for work to have things moving.
Sometimes, a face-to-face gathering may be important for remote workers to sustain morale and engagement. Apply the following guidelines.
Promote Healthy Behaviors that Minimize Spread
Advise the attendees or employees to stay home if they are showing any signs of infection. This includes those that have had close contact with the affected employees.
Require frequent handwashing with water and soap or the use of sanitizer. If you use transport vehicles such as vans or buses, they should sanitize frequently or wash their hands. Disinfect the vehicles before and after using them.
Everybody should have masks in the meeting, considering that it will be necessary to raise voices.
Maintain Social Distance
It is important to maintain a safe social distance in addition to the above measures. Most office spaces are not adequate for holding meetings and maintaining effective social distance.
The banquet hall at Villa Ragusa has 12,000 square feet of space and can handle various events and group sizes and maintain good social distance. Our staff will help you organize the tables and plan the gathering safely.
If the group is too large, consider combining safe gathering with a zoom call. Use technology whenever possible to minimize person-to-person contact.
People are hyper-social, and they long to belong to a group. Maintain communication as much as possible to prevent anxiety among the employees. Keep the communication cycle short by using instant messaging and video calls. Encourage them to contribute, challenge the status quo, and to learn for the sake of their self-esteem under the quarantine conditions.
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In the absence of a quality venue space, making your celebration a resounding success story is an uphill task. Business events require careful planning and an eye for detail to make sure that everything flows as it should. The ideal event space will have the flexibility to decorate according to a particular theme.
Here is how the right venue space will impress your important clients.
Location and Surroundings
The venue space for corporate meetings should be inspiring, as well as practical. They are easily accessible through public transport and private means. Getting to the location should be straight forward from the main road to save time and for convenience.
Inspiring surroundings are a definite plus as they encourage productivity. Besides, the clients will want to take photographs to go along with the event or celebration.
Service and Facilities
An event venue with a friendly staff that goes out of their way to ensure everything goes smoothly ends up putting a smile on your clients’ faces. The right event space boasts various essential facilities with enough cubicles to prevent queuing and time wastage.
Food and Drink
The quality and choice of food and drinks at the venue space can determine the success of the event. One of the key aspects to look for is adaptability for the dietary requirements. Ideally, slick kitchens with professional and experienced staff provide the wow factor for corporate delegates.
Provide your clients with the best quality food and drinks, and they will rave about it for a long time to come.
The Villa Ragusa event space is easily accessible and has the charm of European architecture. The natural woodwork throughout, mahogany beverage bars and wrap-around balconies will create a fine impression among your corporate delegates. Our on-site catering has the best menu choices for corporate events. Contact us today!
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The contemporary work and social models have made our time together more valuable and more precious. It is, therefore, important that every planner orchestrates every meeting to contribute to a CSR ethos of the firm.
Local Community Outreach
The best way to reduce the carbon footprint of the corporate event is by using public transport, cycling, and even carpooling. Villa Ragusa is in a good location, accessible, and with sufficient parking.
The small town friendly atmosphere in Downtown Campbell, where Villa Ragusa is located, is perfect for the carbon footprint reducing activities. You can volunteer within the local community as an option for team building. Donate to food banks and social enterprises to give back to the community.
Commitment to Sustainability
It’s increasingly becoming imperative to integrate ethical and sustainable practices in all stages of event management. The event managers at villa Ragusa are well-versed to these needs and will be at your disposal. The event space is also committed to sustainable practices, and all the staff will be reading from the same script.
Comfort and Well-Being
The well-being and comfort of the guests is an excellent recipe for a successful corporate meeting. This is a sound strategic investment to improve the overall experience of the event and transform people’s actions.
The Villa Ragusa space is well-designed with European architecture and is spacious and comfortable for large and small groups. The rooms have sufficient natural light and a balcony where you can enjoy the view of downtown Campbell.
Villa Ragusa boasts a variety of sumptuous dishes that every guest will enjoy. The menus are also customizable to accommodate any unique preferences. There is less food wasted and, therefore, less organic waste.
Furthermore, the right food has a direct impact on productivity and cognition. These are factors that contribute to a successful corporate meeting.
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Every company needs some time for strategic thinking to choke out the technical issues that may affect the health of the organization. That is why a candid conversation among the members of your leadership team in your firm is essential, at least once in a while.
Well, the best way of bringing together motivated staff whose primary interest is to solve problems is through a think tank session. Villa Ragusa provides the best environment away from the office for investigating and diagnosing problems.
So, What Do We Have to Offer?
Sufficient Space for the Corporate Staff
The event space at Villa Ragusa is entirely sufficient for small groups as well as groups of up to 650 people. Sometimes, it is necessary to examine the current problem management process, and a classy venue helps create the right environment for change thinking.
A granite foyer, marble columns, and natural woodwork, not to mention a balcony that wraps around the meeting space, are motivating. It will keep the conversation flowing in the right direction, without interruptions. The event space has sufficient natural lighting and a relaxing environment to keep the agenda tight.
Professional Catering
Professional catering is available to spice up the sessions. Our breakfast and luncheon menu has a variety of options to suit the preferences of those in attendance. We are happy to customize the menu that your technical and business leaders will appreciate.
A variety of hor d’oeuvres and buffet-style dinner menus is at your disposal. Villa Ragusa can accommodate whatever request you have to make the session as comfortable as possible. We also have a full range of wine, soft drinks, beer, and cocktails to suit your change champions.
Your group can focus on problem-solving while our event organizers take care of the rest.
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When you’ll be attending a business luncheon, it is always a good idea to brush up on the etiquette for such a meeting. You will probably find a thing or two you’re doing that you shouldn’t. At any rate, if you are usually stressed about such events, this should give you a new sense of confidence.
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Luncheons have their own rules of order, just like any business meeting. Here are some tips to help you leave behind a professional memory in your business associates’ minds.
When to Sit
When the host sits, you sit.
The Napkin
Again, keep your eye on your host. When all are seated and your host puts the napkin in the lap, you shall follow the lead.
Your Phone
This is the point at which you shut your phone off – not vibrate – shut it completely off.
Menu
Your conversation with the wait staff should be short and to the point. Order quickly, so that they can move on. Do avoid ordering the most expensive item or the messy items like crab legs.
Cocktails
Pass altogether on adult beverages or limit yourself to one.
Forks
The rule is to eat from the outside in. The outside fork is the salad fork, which is removed with the salad plate when you’re finished eating it. The next fork in line is the dinner fork.
Water Glass
Your beverage glasses are on the right side of your plate.
Rolls
Your bread plate is the one on the left side of your plate.
Dipping
Never dip your food into the community sauce or salsa bowl. Put some on your plate. Then dip.
Finish
Put your fork prongs down onto your plate at a 4 o’clock position. This signals the waiter to remove it.
Enjoy
Luncheons can be stressful, but after you’ve attended many, the etiquette gets easier to remember and the stress goes away.
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