When you’re a man, planning a party has more to do with getting people together, than creating the perfect event. While some may disagree, if you ask a woman what she’ll need to do in order to plan a great event, she’ll tell you about how everyone wants the best. “Nothing but the best.”

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Men who plan parties hardly call the activity planning. What works for poker night or football Sunday can be “ramped up” and morphed into any special event. For the man, what could be better than HDTV and scoop fritos for the best darn dip west of the Mississippi. If every party were as well planned as the image of the great party tumbling around the mans brain, then this man would attend more parties. Forget the music, the caterer, the decorations, or events. Get on with the meat, and potatoes, beer, and Lazy Boys rented special for the day. What the men lack in party foresight, they make up in an ability to force everything together until it fits into the original vision, even if the guest list was 50 people short, and the caterer only preapred enough food for half the guests that did arrive.

Women diliberate. Women collect ideas, and put them up side by side until the best idea shines brightly above the rest. After considering the outline, they fill in the blanks..so many blanks…with the best of the best, or a good impersonation of the best. For the women to succeed at party planning, satisfying everyone is a goal, but without the man’s understanding that “You can satisfy some of the people someof the time, but you can ever satisfy everyone all the time.”

Feelings, usually hurt, are so closely involved with a great event. These things that interfere with the objectives to complete a task on-time and under budget can severely side track a women planner unprepared to get what she wants. Women who utilize the best traits of a man’s complete belief that he knows what’s best can get farther, faster in the event planning process. What women can give to the process is an ability to understand what a man thinks about, while men are left guessing how to please many women.

This difference of opinion creates a “Sticky Situation” when couples decide to take on the task of planning the next great gathering of friends, family, or co-workers. For the professional planner though, working together as male and female participants can bridge a great divide between the sexes to create and even more special party, or big event.

If it’s your responsibility to plan this year’s holiday event for family or business, consider what the opposite would bring to the party if they were planning the event. For men, consider bringing in more of the best things about a woman’s view, while women, bring in the men when working out the hard business side of event planning. Both sexes can win battles for each side in the war of the party planning men and women.

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