After completely fixing a critical booking error with no negative impact, an event manager informed her director that everything was handled without disclosing the near-disaster. This tactic of managing up protected her reputation and avoided creating unnecessary stress for leadership.
An event manager forgot to book a venue for an entire session. Because she had a strong, long-standing relationship with the venue, their team went above and beyond to move other bookings and resolve her crisis, saving the event from cancellation.
An event manager, solely responsible for all logistics for 30 events in three weeks, made a major booking error. This demonstrates that assigning high-volume, complex projects to a single person without support turns them into a single point of failure, making critical mistakes almost unavoidable.