Behind The Clipboard Expert Event Tips

Behind The Clipboard Expert Event Tips

Known Associates Expert Event Management Tips

Episodes 76
Avg. Duration 33m
Activity Dormant
Since Mar 2019
Latest Episode Aug 2025

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Expert event tips! Whether you're an event manager, small business owner, executive assistant, student, or just love to impress your social circle, organising events can be a stressful gig - but we're here to help! Tune in as we take you 'Behind the Clipboard' at major events and lift the lid on the tricks of the trade in the event industry! Join our expert hosts, Tamara Cook and Melissa Howie from Known Associates Events, as they take you backstage, into the green room, behind the AV desk, the hotel basement and everywhere in between to bring you the best event tips going around. Behind The Clipboard is the easiest and most entertaining way to pick up the extra skills you need to take your events from drab to fab - and all packaged in a weekly sound bite for you to enjoy on-the-go!

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Recent Episodes

S9E62 Battling Burnout in the High-Stakes World of Events

Aug 06, 2025 47m

In this episode, event experts Melissa Howie and Tamara Cook tackle a topic that hits close to home for many in our events industry: BURNOUT. Joined by special guest, Sarah Reuter, CEO of Elevate…

S8E9 Shot List: Tips for the Ultimate Event Imagery Personnel

Mar 27, 2025 49m

Choosing the right photographer and videographer for your event is crucial; it can make or break your event's visuals with a knock-on effect in many places. So how do you find the perfect shooter? In…

S8E8 Confetti, Chaos & Careers: Getting Into Events Fast

Mar 20, 2025 25m

Bridging the gap between study, ambition, and employment is one of the biggest hurdles for budding eventies trying to break into the industry. Tam and Mel are huge advocates for assisting people to…

S8E7 Hot list of Event Management Don'ts!

Mar 13, 2025 37m

Today we're bringing you Our Hot list of Event Management Don'ts! We're recording on a Friday, we're exhausted and full of tips from the recent events we've run and attended. We've compiled a list of…

S8E6 After The Applause - Nailing the Post-Event Process

Feb 27, 2025 23m

Post Event Processes. We know you're tired and hangry and your feet hurt, but there's still work do to! We've done an poddy on post event reporting (see link) but that just makes up one component of…

S8E5 Event Pro Tips for Keeping Calm

Feb 21, 2025 30m

Just keep swimming – No one's going to die – 123 breathe – Be a duck (if you know, you know) Event planning is in the top ten listed stressful jobs in the world. Top ten, people! Right behind…

S8E4 Budget Beaters - Tips for reducing your event spend

Feb 14, 2025 37m

'Cost of living' is on everyone's lips, but there are many thrifty ways to stretch planning budgets and still curate events that wow. So how do we impress attendees when budgets are tight and demand…

S8E3 DEI - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Events - a checklist

Feb 06, 2025 41m

It's all over the news right now – DEI: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Mel and Tam believe that a deliberate and considered focus on DEI and safety is critical to creating fantastic event…

S8E2 We love AIME - The event where the business events world meets in APAC

Jan 31, 2025 34m

AIME is THE event for corporate Event Managers and the adjacent community to attend in the Asia-Pacific region. People flock from all over the globe to learn, do business and connect with the…

S8E62 Are we doing International Women's Day right?

Mar 14, 2024 31m

Tam and Mel attend and manage several IWD events each year. 2024 events got the whole Known Associates office talking about who's doing it well, how some events could improve, and which styles are…

S7E62 Don't Make Pour Decisions - Bar Service at Events

Apr 02, 2023 32m

Today we're talking about our favourite topic – getting drinks! Bar service is often pivotal to live events whether we're serving alcoholic drinks or mocktails. But today we're going to focus on the…

S7E65 Things We Wish Our Clients Knew

Mar 26, 2023 29m

Today we're breaking down things we wish our clients knew. It's a bit of a doozy as we lift the lid on what goes on behind the scenes. From obscure things we have to google to come up with unique…

S7E64 Event Tips for Reading Contracts

Mar 19, 2023 20m

We promise not to put you to sleep as we spice up a dry topic, contracts! Contracts are those multipage nightmares we event managers have to trawl through to ensure we're a) getting the best value…

S7E62 Show Calling: Event Tips for a Smooth Control Room

Mar 12, 2023 23m

Today's masterclass is on a handy little skill called Show Calling! It's a role used in large scale events where there's a plethora of multimedia and talent happening in the room. I'm talking live…

S7E62 Stage Management - Every event tip you need

Mar 05, 2023 24m

When you run a large scale event which focuses its formalities and entertainment on stage, you need a tightly run ship to ensure it all goes to plan. From timing, audio visual, and coordinating…

S7E61 Post Event Reporting - the best party trick!

Feb 26, 2023 27m

Once the event's over and your feet have recovered from 38,000 steps in one day, you have one final job to do...the post event report! This is a gem of a task which will help your future-self…

S7E60 15 Years of Known Associates Events!

Feb 19, 2023 25m

Known Associates Events, where Mel and Tam spend every day dreaming up cool stuff for their clients, is the event company powering Behind the Clipboard Podcast. This year Known Associates turned 15 –…

S6E59 Briefing your team - An essential cog in the machine

Feb 12, 2023 35m

Did you know that key team briefings can make or break your event? Often in the chaos before doors open it seems like you don't have time for a briefing - INCORRECT. Making sure everyone on the event…

S6E58 Event Branding - How to get it right

Mar 29, 2022 35m

We all know the best events build a brand we can all get around. A brand that sticks in our minds and doesn't leave until we jump on that ticketing website and get it get it! (Did someone say Fyre…

S6E57 Pre and Post Event Day Rituals

Mar 14, 2022 30m

Seasoned Event Directors Mel and Tam talk about everything from sleep routines to post event meltdowns, errr I mean reporting, in this deep dive into our event day rituals. We're joined by special…

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