{"id":376,"date":"2014-08-29T09:15:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T09:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2014\/08\/29\/success-lies-in-the-details\/"},"modified":"2014-08-29T09:15:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T09:15:48","slug":"success-lies-in-the-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/success-lies-in-the-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Success Lies in the Details"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>21 August 2012, Roga\u0161ka Slatina, Slovenia [Julian Hibbert, ted<\/em>NEWS]\u00a0<\/span>A key ingredient of every successful conference is the ability of the convening team to handle detail. They must think through and list the requirements for each component of the event, down to the finest detail.<\/p>\n

I was interested in how the Trans-European Division (TED) team, tasked with organising the European Pastors\u2019 Conference, would handle these details \u2013 and they impressed me from the start. Their communication of the programme, the registration procedure, the hotel reservation requirements, the destination options, the duties of those involved and the \u2018pick-up\u2019 arrangements at the airports \u2013 were all done well ahead of time.<\/p>\n

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Were they on time to fetch us? Yes! In fact, we were in our air-conditioned bus and on our way within ten minutes or so of collecting our luggage at the airport. Upon arrival at the hotel, the TED\u2019s red-shirted welcoming group processed us smoothly with firm handshakes and warm smiles.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Then came my first personal test of their efficiency \u2013 had they remembered to reserve a single room for me? I would need that privacy for some late night editing on MESSENGER. Yes, they had!<\/p>\n

These weren\u2019t the only \u201clittle details\u201d TED had sorted out \u2013 we received conference bags filled with books, music DVDs . . . and even a water bottle to help survive Slovenia\u2019s hot summer temperatures of 37C.<\/p>\n

The arrangements in the main auditorium on the opening night were finished on time \u2013 another key feature of successful conference management. There was no \u201cfaffing about\u201d with sound, lighting or decor. The pulpit party was in place and the worship team were ready.<\/p>\n

So when Miroslav Pujic, TED Communication & Media director, said, \u201cStart\u201d \u2013 the conference did just that!<\/p>\n

Bravo to the TED convenors \u2013 so far, too good! [ted<\/em>NEWS]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>21 August 2012, Roga\u0161ka Slatina, Slovenia [Julian Hibbert, ted<\/em>NEWS]\u00a0<\/span>A key ingredient of every successful conference is the ability of the convening team to handle detail. They must think through and list the requirements for each component of the event, down to the finest detail.<\/p>\n

I was interested in how the Trans-European Division (TED) team, tasked with organising the European Pastors\u2019 Conference, would handle these details \u2013 and they impressed me from the start. Their communication of the programme, the registration procedure, the hotel reservation requirements, the destination options, the duties of those involved and the \u2018pick-up\u2019 arrangements at the airports \u2013 were all done well ahead of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,1588,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication-media-technology","category-ireland-united-kingdom","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}