BRAAI FESTIVAL

The braai festival at Barbara Bistro restaurant reached its 5^th anniversary in 2014.Every year the largest festival is being hosted in different regions of the country and brings the top musicians Jazz, classical music, rock music and popular music attracting over thousands chefs and cooks of Botswana, to show case the skill and experience in braai different meats e.g. pork, lamb, beef, chicken, turkey and goat meat. It also brings different of people from different sides of the country. The major challenge for the event was time.

TIME MANAGEMENT

According to Bowdin et al (2012) states that time management is setting the time scale for each task. The event was supposed to start at 1500hrs but because of the delays as some chefs had not set-up their braai stands the event started three hours after. For a successful event an event planner should recommend a personal planning tool to improve your productivity (Chapman and Rupturd 2008) which are action plan, pocket diaries, calendars and wall charts. At the event it showed that the planner did not organize the logistics of the event as people were confused of were to set-up the braai, he was doing everything without delegating people. Delegation means assigning responsibility for a task to someone else, freeing up some of your time for tasks that require your expertise (Morgenstern,2004) The event plan should have delegated some duties to appropriate person to do them, to save time and make a successful event.

REFERENCE

Bowdin,G.A.,Allen,J.,0’Toole,W.,Harris,R.,and McDonnell(2012)Events Management ,3rd edn:Routledge: USA

Chapman, W.S. and Rupured, M. (2008) Time Management. Butterworth-Heinemann

Morgenstern, J. (2004) Time Management from the inside Out. New York: Henry Holt and Company.