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How to choose the perfect Emcee for your event
- Language Proficiency
The starting point on how to choose the perfect emcee for your event is language fluency. The perfect emcee should be fluent in the language that the guests attending the event understand. For international events planned outside the home country of your attendees, ensure your emcee has a good command over the language to be used at your event. Your emcee should not just be able to deliver the message but also be able to understand questions and respond to your attendees.
- Good Orator
Another important tip on how to choose the perfect emcee for your event is look for a good orator. Just being good at the language to be used at the event is not enough. Also ensure that your ideal emcee is a good speaker and can deliver the information in the most effective manner. The last thing you want is for your emcee to take long and awkward pauses while hosting your event.
- Attractive, Presentable & Well Dressed
Keep in mind that your emcee while hosting your event represents your organization. Therefore it is necessary for your emcee be presentable. Ideally, he or she should be attractive and well dressed for your event. After-all your emcee is almost like your brand ambassador at your event!
- Well Prepared
An ideal emcee should be well prepared and understand the topic being discussed. This might mean that he or she will have to educate themselves about the organization, product and subject matter of the event. A good emcee will always come to the event early. He or she might even come a few days prior to meet in person. This is done to get a better understanding of your event and your business. After-all no one knows your business better than you. It is essential that your emcee comes well prepared for your event. This will avoid the chance of your emcee looking like a novice. The emcee should also educate themselves on pronunciations of important names. Especially of those people who will be called on during the event.
- Engaging & Interactive
The perfect emcee must be able to respond, interact and hold conversation with the attendees. He or she must be a good listener as well. This is so they can engage with your attendees and respond to them. It would also be great if the emcee was interactive. This helps to keep the audience engaged with the subject. This also helps with retaining the information given by the emcee.
- Think on their feet
Sometimes discussions can head in a different directions. An ideal emcee should ensure that everyone stays on topic. And they should be able to respond to queries or comments which are outside the topic being discussed. This requires the emcee to be responsive and have the ability to think on their feet.
- Keep to the program
One of the main responsibilities of an emcee is to keep to the program. The ideal emcee must ensure no time overruns as this could impact the event in many ways. Your ideal emcee should be mindful of the time. He or she should be able to make up time or even fill in time if required.
- Adaptive to last-minute changes
A good emcee should be adaptive to any last-minute changes and have a plan to implement such changes. It’s possible that a speaker or an important person from the organization is running late or caught up in traffic. A good emcee should be able to handle this situation without the audience ever knowing the real situation. Besides this there are many other instances where an emcee must be able to adapt to last minute changes. This must be done in the most seamless manner possible.
- Entertaining & Humorous
There’s nothing worse than a boring emcee that puts the audience to sleep. The best emcees in the business use humor to keep the audience entertained and engaged. There’s nothing better than fun, laughter and smiles to keep it fresh. An ideal emcee should create a lighter environment while being able to deliver a more serious communication.
- High Energy
The perfect emcee should be high on energy. This will help keep your attendees stay engaged. Some of the best emcees in the business will sometimes even sing and make the audience shake a leg. Some even play a game or activity to keep the energy levels high all around.
An amazing emcee or Master of Ceremonies (MC) as is the appropriate term in the event industry is an extremely important element to a successful event. Emcees are responsible for hosting the event and keeping the audience engaged and sometimes even entertained. They are also responsible for keeping to the program of the event, making important announcements and responding to audience questions and comments. Besides this the emcee is responsible for communicating in the most effective way. Above are the qualities we look for before engaging the perfect emcee for an event. We thought of sharing these insights with you.
Jabu Events is a leading event planner in Thailand. We have been organizing corporate events such as conferences, gala dinners, award shows, company parties and incentive programs since 2008. Through our offices in Bangkok & Phuket, we provide event services to almost every destination across Thailand. Since commencing operations Jabu Events has planned and organized hundreds if not thousands of events.
Jabu Events provides presentable, qualified and experienced male & female emcees for all types of events. Some emcees specialize in corporate events while others in weddings. We work with local Thai as well as international emcees. Over the past decade, we have developed a roster of some of the best emcees available across Thailand. Our Emcees can host events in various languages. These include Thai, English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Korean among other languages. Many of our emcees are bi-lingual and some even work in three languages. Consider a Jabu Events empanelled emcee for your next event in Thailand. You won’t be disappointed.
To know more about us, our work and the events we organize visit our website Jabu Events. Here you will also find information on our emcee services. You can also keep in touch with us through our Facebook page as well as through our YouTube Channel.
